cjfiscus Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 I'm having a problem where text in pdf documents moves when imported into Affinity Designer (see screenshots). The issue seems to be especially bad with negative numbers or when digits have decimals before them. I have attempted selecting and deselecting the "Favor editable text over fidelity" and "Group lines of text into text frames" options and it does not seem to make a difference. Also, when importing the file, Designer tells me that the fonts used by the document are available. Is there a way to import a PDF document without the text shifting? I use Designer primarily to make small tweaks to figures and this issue makes using Designer extremely tedious as I have to fix the position of all text before exporting the document. For reference, running Affinity Designer 1.8.3 on macOS 10.15.5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benwiggy Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 The Affinity suite 'doesn't support import of PDFs with embedded fonts'. Sadly, you can expect problems of this sort. The workarounds are: outline the text to curves in the PDF before importing; convert to EPS, whose embedded fonts for some reason Affinity can import. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 ... or install this font to your PC. Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjfiscus Posted July 27, 2020 Author Share Posted July 27, 2020 On 7/25/2020 at 4:10 AM, Pšenda said: ... or install this font to your PC. As far as I know the font is already installed on the system. This is a graphic created with statistical software R. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjfiscus Posted July 27, 2020 Author Share Posted July 27, 2020 On 7/25/2020 at 1:18 AM, benwiggy said: The Affinity suite 'doesn't support import of PDFs with embedded fonts'. Sadly, you can expect problems of this sort. The workarounds are: outline the text to curves in the PDF before importing; convert to EPS, whose embedded fonts for some reason Affinity can import. This is unfortunate. I ended up exporting to svg instead and then loading that format into Affinity instead. Since I need print resolution I then changed resolution to 300 dpi on export back to pdf but not sure if it's truly 300 dpi then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benwiggy Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 Hopefully, everything has stayed as vector data, so resolution should be irrelevant. But if there are any bitmap images in the PDF, then yes, 300 dpi should hold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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