'Chele Posted March 22, 2021 Share Posted March 22, 2021 I exported a 300 page file to create a pdf to upload to KDP. PDF looks fine, but my original file has bizarre letter substitutions throughout. G substitutes for "ti" and l' substitutes for "tt". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanPickup Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 Hi What may be happeing is substitution of ligatures if you type face is not compatable or the character number relates to a different character. Also you need to post this in the affinity support and questions section of the forum where it will get picked up. But please give details of your operating system and the type face you are using. I know ther have been problems with Ariel, but there may be others Quote Alan Pickup Windows 11 Home all Affinity suite of Apps PC and Gigabyte Laptop 16gb Ram and Nvidia GTX1660 Super on each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Chele Posted March 25, 2021 Author Share Posted March 25, 2021 I discovered that several chapters created years ago used "Calibri" font. These triggered the substitutions. Michele Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Chele Posted March 25, 2021 Author Share Posted March 25, 2021 BTW, I do not have the option to contact support. It is "grayed" out. I use Windows 10. Michele Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 Posting here is "contacting support". They are very busy at the moment, as mentioned in the topic at the top of this forum, so it is hard to predict when they might respond: It is odd, however, that Help > Support would be grayed out. It works fine for me on Windows 10, and opens a browser to these forums. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Chele Posted March 26, 2021 Author Share Posted March 26, 2021 Am I going to the wrong place? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 No, you're in exactly the right place to ask a Support question. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 Here's one for you, 'Chele: What was the source of your "original file"? Did you compose it in Publisher? Or did you Open a PDF? If you Opened a PDF, it is likely that whoever created that PDF did not fully embed the fonts that were used. In that case it can be difficult or impossible for Publisher to recognize all the ligatures, and situations like the one you described will occur. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Chele Posted March 27, 2021 Author Share Posted March 27, 2021 This one was a pdf from a Word file using a calibri font. Michele Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 1 hour ago, 'Chele said: This one was a pdf from a Word file using a calibri font. Thanks. Probably the PDF did not have the full font embedded, but only a subset. That will even cause problems like this if you export a PDF from Affinity and then Open it with Affinity later. You need to make sure to tell the Affinity to embed the full font, not a subset. In your case, just Placing the Word file (as a .docx) into a Publisher document may work better than using a PDF. Or maybe you can find a Word option when exporting that embeds more of the font. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Chele Posted April 2, 2021 Author Share Posted April 2, 2021 I will keep this in mind. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 You're welcome. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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