Quotation marks - the leading mark is replaced by three dot symbol

[Paul Marchant]

I publish a monthly Church & Village magazine. The copy is sent to me on a MS Word file. The Word copy was correct when I received it but when put into Publisher, in every quotation example, the first quotation marks were replace by a three dot symbol. e.g
"Publisher" became ...Publsher". Never had this error before - just had a Windows 10 upgrade, could this be the cause?

Best regards
Paul Marchant

Original MS Word text - 

It is a paradox that advances in the means of communication can also be the cause of breakdown in communication.  As many motorists know, the cause of most car breakdowns is a failure of vehicle electrics.  Frequently the explanation is “You had a bad earth.”

It is significant that the Common Market debate has focussed on face-to-face negotiations; people talking and, at least equally important, listening to each other.

Modern technology has not always been helpful here, especially in the field of communication where the key seems to be solely the expression of the “sender”.

A former Bishop of Norwich (in the first half of the last century) in dictating a “difficult letter” would instruct his secretary to type the letter and leave it on his desk overnight, rather than send it immediately.  On the following morning he would then read it through as if he were the recipient and then dictate a rather different document!   It may seem a cynical, but a sensible move, when someone in the heat of the moment expresses themselves forcibly, but realises what they have just said, ends “quote me, and I’ll call you a liar!”

[SPaceBar]

HI @Paul Marchant Welcome to the Affinity forums.  

Without looking at the Publisher document I can only assume that it is an issue with the font. I've just pasted your text from my browser into Publisher myself and I can see the quote marks in all of the fonts I have tried.

Are you able to upload the Publisher document and also the word document so that I can take a look for you? I could provide a dropbox folder link if you don't want to upload it publicly.

[Paul Marchant]

Hi SpaceBar
The font that I use is Palatino Linotype and the Word doc uses the same font. However, this lump of text started life as .pages document, sent and imported into a Mac, then was converted to Word and sent to me. I use a PC.
This is the only occurrence of this error, and the first time with Affinity Publisher. The lady who types the copy  which contains these quotations marks, will for the next edition  type the copy in Word, send to the lady who collects all the copy on her Mac, who coverts the whole thing into Word and sends it to me - and I use Word to put it into AF. Aaaaah these Mac/PC conversions drive me mad! I will keep you posted if this works OK in the Feb edition.
Happy New Year
Paul
 

 

[SPaceBar]

Thanks for the update @Paul Marchant I think the Mac/PC conversions are a lot better than they used to be so fingers crossed doing it this way prevents any rogue characters appearing.

I get one regularly myself typing into Notes and copying and pasting into Jira. Both on Mac but possibly not using the same unicode characters / symbols.