Printing appends a "space" character to the end of the text

[Korkd]

I'm using Affinity Photo and printing a set of labels that use a barcode font. When printing, a space character (which is not whitespace for the font) gets appended to the end of the text. I've printed to PDF and my printer and both have the issue.

I'm using the Free 3 of 9 font here: https://www.free-barcode-font.com/

I'm able to convert the font to curves as a workaround, but its annoying that I have to have a hidden layer if I want to edit it.

example.afphoto example.pdf

Edited February 11, 2021 by Korkd

[h_d]

Hi @Korkd and welcome!

2 hours ago, Korkd said:

When printing, a space character (which is not whitespace for the font) gets appended to the end of the text.

How can you tell? Can you see it? Is it making the printed code unscannable? Without seeing the output it's hard to know.

I've downloaded the font in your link and it gives minor errors when installing on macOS 11. The font name doesn't display correctly in font menus (in any app), but if I open your example afphoto document, and set the font to "New", (the name generated when I install the font), the characters are generated correctly. If I print it to pdf it scans correctly without any evidence of a trailing white space.

But you may be using a different OS and printer driver, so again it's hard to tell.

Some suggestions:

• Try exporting to PDF rather than printing to PDF.
• Try a different Code 39 font (for example CCode39 from Dafont).
• Try using Frame Text rather than Artistic Text (not sure if this will make any difference but it will prevent any accidental distortion of the characters).
• Affinity Photo is an image-editing and manipulation program and may not be your best choice for printing labels. Maybe consider something more appropriate to the task? 

Hope some of this helps.

H

[Korkd]

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How can you tell? Can you see it? Is it making the printed code unscannable? Without seeing the output it's hard to know.

In the PDF I included in my original post you can see the character it appends.

Exporting to a PDF works correctly vs printing. I'm on windows 10, so could be OS related.

The reason I'm using Affinity Photo for the labels is that it's a replicated label that requires image editing/manipulation for other parts of the label.