MacOS PDF displays unwanted "hieroglyphes""

[JP-C]

MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6

AffinityPublisher 1.8.6

 

Opening certain PDF's puts hieroglyphes in the middle of the text (see attached screen copies).

 

[Alfred]

Those are Greek letters. Hieroglyphs are Egyptian.

It’s hard to be sure without seeing the document, but it looks as though ligatures such as ‘tt’ and ‘ti’ are being misinterpreted.

[JP-C]

Just now, Alfred said:

Those are Greek letters. Hieroglyphs are Egyptian.

It’s hard to be sure without seeing the document, but it looks as though ligatures such as ‘tt’ and ‘ti’ are being misinterpreted.

Definitley you are correct that the symbols in the screen copy Greek -  and that Hieroglyphs are Egyptian in the historical meaning and in it's origin. But in the wider sense, hieroglyphs could refer to any illegible script, even somenes handwriting if it is illegble... 😎

 

 back to the topic 🌞

I just received an ENGLISH PDF from the same source. And there are even more letters that appear as "wrongly displayed letters / symbols"... Since it is a PDF with certain confidential content, I cannot put it in the public WEB here...

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[JP-C]

When opening the PDF on "Preview" in macOS, it does display correctly.

WHen creating a "new" PDF from in MacOS, then it opens correctly in Affinity, without Greek letters.... so I guess it has to do with the PDF creation software of the sender... but Affintiy should be able to open and display it properly since other applications also can....

[Alfred]

It’s clear that standard ligatures are being replaced by Greek letters. If you can’t fix the problem by substituting the font, try turning off ligatures in the Typography settings.

[JP-C]

1 hour ago, Alfred said:

It’s clear that standard ligatures are being replaced by Greek letters. If you can’t fix the problem by substituting the font, try turning off ligatures in the Typography settings.

Thank you Alfred,

I treid to turn off LIGATURES in the Text Settings (could not find Typography settings)... but no use.

If there are Typography Settings, can you direct me as where to find them?

Thanx,

--JP-C

[JP-C]

2 minutes ago, JP-C said:

Thank you Alfred,

I treid to turn off LIGATURES in the Text Settings (could not find Typography settings)... but no use.

If there are Typography Settings, can you direct me as where to find them?

Thanx,

--JP-C

I found the FONT SUBSTITUION menu, but I cannot substitute a font... any help?

See attached.

It says UNSUPPORTED CHACTERS USED.. any hlep on how to solve this?

 

[Alfred]

5 minutes ago, JP-C said:

If there are Typography Settings, can you direct me as where to find them?

The Typography section is in the Character panel.

[JP-C]

3 minutes ago, Alfred said:

The Typography section is in the Character panel.

thank you... I selected all text, and made sure that the "fi" symbol is not selected... no help. 

[Alfred]

I don’t know why font substitution isn’t enabled for you. Perhaps a Mac user can help.

If deselecting the ‘fi’ button doesn’t work, you may have to resort to ‘Find & Replace’ — unless someone else comes up with a better idea!

[JP-C]

1 minute ago, Alfred said:

I don’t know why font substitution isn’t enabled for you. Perhaps a Mac user can help.

If deselecting the ‘fi’ button doesn’t work, you may have to resort to ‘Find & Replace’ — unless someone else comes up with a better idea!

Thanx Alfred,

I did FIND & REPLACE, then I realized that opening the PDF in Mac PREVIEW and saving it as a new PDF will solve it... so that is the easiest and fastest...

Greertings to the Island and once again thank you for the help.