waltonmendelson Posted December 1, 2021 Posted December 1, 2021 (edited) I am using Affinity Photo, ver. 1.10.4.1198, in Windows 10. I saved a JPG from GoogleDrive as a PDF (using print to Adobe PDF) I opened the PDF in AffinityPhoto, which brought up the PDF Options panel: I accepted the defaults except I set it to 300 dpi The PDF opened with the header and footer data scrambled. I did the exact same thing in Photoshop and the header and footer data was perfect. The text on the PDF is editable. Walton Edited December 1, 2021 by waltonmendelson Added information Quote
waltonmendelson Posted December 1, 2021 Author Posted December 1, 2021 I guess I should add: In this instance I opened a PDF in AffinityPhoto and the text was jumbled. To what extent could this sort of thing be a problem with PDF in general? Could there be a problem creating a PDF? Is this unique to AffinityPhoto? or could AffinityPublisher/AffinityDesigner also have some flaw related to PDFs? I did not say above, because I cannot document this, but I have seen this exact thing with other PDFs opened in at least AffinityPhoto. I don't always have time to pursue things here, so they go unreported. I do have another PDF related problem, that I documented but have not reported: creating a PDF/X-3 (which does not support transparency or layers) from a multi-layered file in AffinityPhoto, when opened in Acrobat, for half a second a hidden turned off layer appears! Think about it? In my case, I am working often with 200 to 800 page books. I cannot review a PDF to see that early deleted versions of text (which I have seen!) co-exist in the final PDF/X-3, or that something somewhere didn't get jumbled. I can check the actual sequence of words in a small document but not in a big one. Walton Quote
waltonmendelson Posted December 1, 2021 Author Posted December 1, 2021 I should have uploaded the original PDF, sorry. This is the PDF that opened with the scrambled header and footer. Walton IMG_7743.pdf Quote
Old Bruce Posted December 1, 2021 Posted December 1, 2021 Try copying the word view in the Address at the bottom of the page. What do you get on the clipboard? I get unknown characters. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
waltonmendelson Posted December 1, 2021 Author Posted December 1, 2021 I just tried it . . . and you're right. However, before I posted here, I opened the same PDF in Photoshop no problem. Quote
Old Bruce Posted December 1, 2021 Posted December 1, 2021 I can Place that PDF in Designer with no problems. But there is a problem with that PDF. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
kenmcd Posted December 2, 2021 Posted December 2, 2021 2 hours ago, waltonmendelson said: I just tried it . . . and you're right. However, before I posted here, I opened the same PDF in Photoshop no problem. That text does not have an actual font applied to it. So any application which attempts to edit the text is going to fail. If the application just displays the shapes that are there, it looks OK. But there is no font embedded. The font name is shown as T1. Which looks like corruption of data which should be in another field. Quote
Staff stokerg Posted December 2, 2021 Staff Posted December 2, 2021 10 hours ago, waltonmendelson said: I just tried it . . . and you're right. However, before I posted here, I opened the same PDF in Photoshop no problem. Photoshop is opening the PDF as an image, so you can't edit the text, so it's slightly different to how Affinity is opening it. This is to do with the text and the font thats been used, as has been pointed out by others. If you just need to display this PDF and not edit the text, you can use File>Place to place the PDF on the canvas. Quote
ashf Posted December 2, 2021 Posted December 2, 2021 Illustrator opens it as vector shape, not text. So it could be something not editable in the first place. Quote
waltonmendelson Posted December 2, 2021 Author Posted December 2, 2021 Thank you all! I remain baffled, however, perhaps the culprit is Adobe PDF maker. When I opened the PDF in both AffinityPhoto and Photoshop, I assumed the text would be rasterized and not editable. What I was trying to do was download a KDP (Amazon KDP) forum member's images and analyze them in terms of how they were imposed and printed. She uploaded to Google ____________. Her images would not download, but I could print them and save them to open in AffinityPhoto. I presumed (my fault) that AdobePDF would print an uploaded JPG as an image, i.e. rasterized. Apparently Google must have added the headers and footers. I did not need the text, but I expected it to match the original, hence my post. Well, thank you all for the input. Quote
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