Seunghyeon Posted December 1, 2021 Posted December 1, 2021 Hello everyone. When I opened an .eps file in the Affinity Designer then I found some texts were not displayed. I realized those were removed. It's 'fi' from a word efficiency on y-axis. I tried open... menu and drag but the results were same. I use macOS on a new M1 pro and the App Store version of Affinity Designer is installed. .eps file and screenshot attached.test.eps Quote
Pšenda Posted December 1, 2021 Posted December 1, 2021 4 minutes ago, Seunghyeon said: 'fi' Isn't problem with ligature? Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.5.7.2948 (Retail) Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100.2605. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100.2605. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130.
Staff stokerg Posted December 2, 2021 Staff Posted December 2, 2021 10 hours ago, Seunghyeon said: When I opened an .eps file in the Affinity Designer then I found some texts were not displayed. I realized those were removed. It's 'fi' from a word efficiency on y-axis. I tried open... menu and drag but the results were same. Hi @Seunghyeonand Welcome to the Forums, Unless i'm missing something, that text isn't in the eps file. I've opened it in Preview, which doesn't show it and also Illustrator, which also doesn't show any text along the y-axis. All apps i've tried, show it the same as Designer, no text along the y-axis. Quote
Old Bruce Posted December 2, 2021 Posted December 2, 2021 Try using the PDF export option instead of the EPS. That is if you in fact are the producer of the plot, according to its website MagicPlot does offer that export option. 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.
Seunghyeon Posted December 2, 2021 Author Posted December 2, 2021 I prepared a video proof of this issue. https://drive.google.com/file/d/195wvt1mle2UIvKYGtZicboIEXu3NZBLj/view?usp=sharing test.eps file was opened using the following programs: macOS Preview (success) Affinity Photo (fail) Affinity Designer (fail) Microsoft PowerPoint (success) Adobe Illustrator (success) I will try to generate figures with PDF export option. Thank you. Quote
MikeW Posted December 2, 2021 Posted December 2, 2021 6 hours ago, stokerg said: Hi @Seunghyeonand Welcome to the Forums, Unless i'm missing something, that text isn't in the eps file. I've opened it in Preview, which doesn't show it and also Illustrator, which also doesn't show any text along the y-axis. All apps i've tried, show it the same as Designer, no text along the y-axis. Yes, the text is there: As mentioned, it shows up in Illy: VectorStyler changes the text to paths, but also displays the text: Quote
Seunghyeon Posted December 2, 2021 Author Posted December 2, 2021 Oh yes---- it's not a problem anymore after some work on a text editor. Thank you everyone, have a nice day. 😅 Quote
Pšenda Posted December 2, 2021 Posted December 2, 2021 Affinity does not seem to be able to correctly interpret the "\ 256" character - the ligature for "fi" (or ffi). If it is replaced by standard text, it will be displayed correctly. Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.5.7.2948 (Retail) Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100.2605. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100.2605. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130.
Alfred Posted December 2, 2021 Posted December 2, 2021 1 hour ago, MikeW said: VectorStyler changes the text to paths, but also displays the text: However, the ‘fi’ is no longer a ligature. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
MikeW Posted December 2, 2021 Posted December 2, 2021 5 minutes ago, Alfred said: However, the ‘fi’ is no longer a ligature. That's true. Nice fallback, isn't it? Quote
Alfred Posted December 2, 2021 Posted December 2, 2021 10 minutes ago, MikeW said: Nice fallback, isn't it? Yes, it is. I’m sure we’d all like to see more of such things! Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
Arte Posted December 2, 2021 Posted December 2, 2021 Odd, in CorelDRAW it shows as a registered trademark symbol for the missing fi when opening the eps file 🙂 Though the font was substituted with Arial. Changing it to Helvetica Now did not correct this seems to me more like it is a font substitution/character mapping issue rather than a software (Affinity, Corel or otherwise) issue. Quote
MikeW Posted December 3, 2021 Posted December 3, 2021 17 hours ago, Arte said: Odd, in CorelDRAW it shows as a registered trademark symbol for the missing fi when opening the eps file 🙂 Though the font was substituted with Arial. Changing it to Helvetica Now did not correct this seems to me more like it is a font substitution/character mapping issue rather than a software (Affinity, Corel or otherwise) issue. Using CD 2018, with a GhostScript installation, and subbing Arial results in a correct interpretation here... It does come in rotated 90 deg., though (here I rotated it to a correct orientation). Quote
kenmcd Posted December 3, 2021 Posted December 3, 2021 22 hours ago, Arte said: this seems to me more like it is a font substitution/character mapping issue rather than a software (Affinity, Corel or otherwise) issue. Definitely. In the EPS file the fi ligature character is mapped to dup 174 /fi put in the Helvetica font. Which is probably an old PS file or old Mac encoding. In Unicode, the character at decimal 174 is the ® symbol. Affinity apps do not understand old encodings (several examples in the forum). Affinity apps only understand Unicode. It appears adding Ghostscript to CorelDraw enables it to understand old EPS character encodings which are pre-Unicode. Perhaps adding a similar Ghostscript-powered EPS import feature to Affinity apps would be helpful. Arte 1 Quote
Arte Posted December 4, 2021 Posted December 4, 2021 14 hours ago, LibreTraining said: Perhaps adding a similar Ghostscript-powered EPS import feature to Affinity apps would be helpful. This would definitely be useful as Ghostscript seems to be able to handle (E)PS features that not every software program seems to be capable of handling/interpreting by itself, Affinity apparently being one of those programs. Quote
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