Text is clipped in Publisher

[NormanTaylor]

I am using Publisher on Windows to produce an 80 page Anthology and wish to use the font Kristopher for the cover and for page titles. I have .otf installed. The screen appearance is fine but when printed the descenders like g and y are clipped off square. This also happens in Corel Draw and Adobe Illustrator, but not Photoshop or when printed from an exported .pdf file. (see example attached). The problem does not seem to be associated with font size or leading.  Any thoughts or, better, solutions, would be very welcome and much appreciated.Kristopher font.pdf

[Alfred]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, Norman.

On 7/6/2021 at 7:41 AM, NormanTaylor said:

Any thoughts or, better, solutions, would be very welcome and much appreciated.

The problem is almost certainly caused by the font metrics. Although it’s more of a workaround than a solution I think you’ve already found the best way forward: export to PDF and then print from your PDF viewer. This is always a useful workflow, anyway, since it affords you the opportunity to spot any problems before using expensive ink/toner and paper.

[NormanTaylor]

Thank you, Alfred, for this prompt response. It is reassuring that I have stumbled on the best way of dealing with the problem. I should have liked, though, to be able to check progress without having to go out of Publisher and save to .pdf every time. But so be it!

I know absolutely nothing about 'font metrics', but suppose that, in this case, it boils down to what the software expects in terms of y-axis dimension of a descender related to the x-axis, for any given point size. I could understand the software setting limits on this and ignoring values outside the expected range. This is apparently not what  happens though. Publisher retains the out-of-range data and only abandons it in the print routine. The original data is preserved throughout processing and it can be accessed in the .pdf in the desired form. It would be nice if Publisher, like Photoshop, allowed printing, in the native programme, of the data which it has held on to.

Thank you again.