crsT3n Posted January 25, 2021 Posted January 25, 2021 Hi There, I'm experiencing troubles when exporting my publisher document into a PDF. All italic fonts are destroyed in the PDF. The regular font is shown normal. This happens with the font URW DIN, which I'm bound to use, since it is the Corporate font of the company we work for. Any suggestions to fix that? THNX in advance
Joachim_L Posted January 25, 2021 Posted January 25, 2021 Welcome to the Affinity forums @crsT3n! Please uncheck "Subset fonts" and try again. You can find this option in the export dialogue. Click the "More" button and scroll down. ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed
crsT3n Posted January 25, 2021 Author Posted January 25, 2021 Hi, thanks for the warp-speed-reply! I'm using the german version of Publisher. I suppose I unchecked the right box (Schriftgruppen)? It did not change anything unfortunately
crsT3n Posted January 25, 2021 Author Posted January 25, 2021 It seems to be a font specific problem. I checked with Arial and the problem is gone. Strange though: in Affinity itself both fonts are displayed perfectly. My colleague working on windows does not have these exporting issues... haakoo 1
Alfred Posted January 25, 2021 Posted January 25, 2021 Check the document properties in your PDF viewer. I suspect you’ll find that non-standard encoding is used for the troublesome font. haakoo 1 Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
crsT3n Posted January 25, 2021 Author Posted January 25, 2021 I rather think it is a problem within the export process from affinity. The same broken appearance appears in Preview by Mac OS. The problems are also on Acrobat in Win. Plus: If the same file is exported from a Win PC the problem does not occur.
Alfred Posted January 25, 2021 Posted January 25, 2021 4 minutes ago, crsT3n said: I rather think it is a problem within the export process from affinity. From your description of the problem, that does indeed seem to be the case. It would be interesting to compare the font properties (as reported by your PDF viewer) for the PDF file exported on macOS and the PDF file exported on Windows. Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
crsT3n Posted January 25, 2021 Author Posted January 25, 2021 Good idea. Where do I find the font properties in Acrobat? Do you know that?
Alfred Posted January 25, 2021 Posted January 25, 2021 There’s a Fonts tab in the Document properties dialog (displayed via Ctrl+D on Windows, so I would guess that it’s Cmd+D on a Mac). Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
crsT3n Posted January 25, 2021 Author Posted January 25, 2021 Thanks! These are both files in comparison. The one with the Arial font on the top of the list is the damaged PDF generated from OS. As far as I can see, not much of a difference... Or?
Joachim_L Posted January 25, 2021 Posted January 25, 2021 Could you get your hands on a version of the "faulty" italic font that is not Type 1? ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed
crsT3n Posted January 25, 2021 Author Posted January 25, 2021 OK guys, I found the problem 🥳. Checking the font itself was the solution. All italic fonts where displayed as active in two versions in the font collection. Solving that issue made the damage disappear. Thats also why the regular font always worked perfectly. It had no duplicates... Big thanks to you for helping solving that problem that quickly! Alfred, Gabe and Joachim_L 2 1
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