Mr. Dyck Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 Hello, it is a really odd bug i found on Publisher. I created a template file for worksheets at school. The font for the task description ist Gill Sans MT. My template file has two pages. For the first page I created all textframes manually, for the second page i just copied them from the first page. The Gill Sans MT font is always display correctly. But when I'm printing right from Publisher the Gill Font will be printed correctly on page 1 but not on page 2. On page 2 the the letters are very narrow and stretched on the same time (see attached fotos) We had the same issue with different PCs and also different printers. And even when I'm using the template file for new worksheets, all copied textframes with the gill sans font will be displayed correctly but printed incorrectly. On the other hand exporting to PDF works well. Everything is fine. But because of our workflow I need to print from publisher correctly. Do you have any idea? I attached the template file. AH_Vorlage.afpub Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Pauls Posted September 30, 2021 Staff Share Posted September 30, 2021 we think its a problem with the font we have other reports of the letter spacing being incorrect with this font Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 So, @Pauls, has Serif tried that font using a variety of non-Affinity applications? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Dyck Posted September 30, 2021 Author Share Posted September 30, 2021 @Pauls So the only solution is to choose another font? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 52 minutes ago, Mr. Dyck said: @Pauls So the only solution is to choose another font? When I changed the font to Gill Sans Nova - it worked fine. And it looked the same. Gill Sans Nova is available in the Windows 10 Pan-European Supplemental Fonts package. Free to download and use. And it is a larger family. Mr. Dyck 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Dyck Posted September 30, 2021 Author Share Posted September 30, 2021 @LibreTraining thank you very much. You really helped me. It works fine with the Gill Sans Nova. kenmcd 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 5 hours ago, Pauls said: we think its a problem with the font we have other reports of the letter spacing being incorrect with this font Gill Sans MT has a LTSH table, and an hdmx table (Gill Sans Nova has neither table). The LTSH table especially can affect the character width and spacing. The hdmx table can also affect the character width and spacing. So any mis-calculation of data from these tables could display what the user is seeing for this font. If you have seen any other older fonts with these tables and odd character shapes, then that would also point to this as possibly being the issue. Mr. Dyck and Pauls 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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