Yellowhammer Posted April 30, 2022 Posted April 30, 2022 Hi all! Hope everyone's safe and well in these strange times. I'm having a problem importing a PDF created with Apple Pages into Affinity Publisher. I'm getting strange exclamation marks with the page numbers (see attached screenshot). I don't know why it's happening. The page numbers were only Helvetica Regular, so it's not some rare font I'm using. Besides, I'm doing it all on the same computer. The rest of the PDF text is in Palatino, which has come out fine. I just can't figure out how to get rid of the exclams from the page numbers. If I save the document as a PDF in AD, it ends up with the exclams, so it's useless to me. Any ideas? Y Quote
Staff DWright Posted April 30, 2022 Staff Posted April 30, 2022 Is it possible for you to send me a copy of the PDF file using the following Dropbox link https://www.dropbox.com/request/zdDW7AdyYEeEcDzSJssq Yellowhammer 1 Quote
Yellowhammer Posted April 30, 2022 Author Posted April 30, 2022 25 minutes ago, DWright said: Is it possible for you to send me a copy of the PDF file using the following Dropbox link https://www.dropbox.com/request/zdDW7AdyYEeEcDzSJssq I've just uploaded a PDF of page 29, created with Pages. Thanks for offering to have a look! Quote
kenmcd Posted April 30, 2022 Posted April 30, 2022 2 hours ago, Yellowhammer said: I've just uploaded a PDF of page 29, created with Pages. Would it be possible to upload that page here? I would like to see what is behind that character in the PDF source. Yellowhammer 1 Quote
Yellowhammer Posted April 30, 2022 Author Posted April 30, 2022 11 minutes ago, LibreTraining said: Would it be possible to upload that page here? I would like to see what is behind that character in the PDF source. Sure... Here's the PDF created in Pages. Thanks for looking at it! P29.pdf kenmcd 1 Quote
Yellowhammer Posted April 30, 2022 Author Posted April 30, 2022 ...and here's the page as an Affinity file... Page_29.afpub Quote
kenmcd Posted April 30, 2022 Posted April 30, 2022 ‰ 58 minutes ago, Yellowhammer said: Sure... Here's the PDF created in Pages. Thanks for looking at it! Do not see where the ! is coming from. Not behind the text that I can see. Tested it and the PDF is not broken. 59 minutes ago, Yellowhammer said: ...and here's the page as an Affinity file... If you remove the -556.2 ‰ tracking on the page number, you can see that the ! is actually between the 2 and the 9 - like this 2!9. So the PDF appears OK, and I cannot tell why APub is adding the ! on opening it. Hopefully the Affinity folks can figure-out why it is there. Yellowhammer 1 Quote
Yellowhammer Posted April 30, 2022 Author Posted April 30, 2022 26 minutes ago, LibreTraining said: ‰ Do not see where the ! is coming from. Not behind the text that I can see. Tested it and the PDF is not broken. If you remove the -556.2 ‰ tracking on the page number, you can see that the ! is actually between the 2 and the 9 - like this 2!9. So the PDF appears OK, and I cannot tell why APub is adding the ! on opening it. Hopefully the Affinity folks can figure-out why it is there. Ah, I see what you mean about the tracking adjustment. That solves the problem... now at least I can get rid of those pesky !s. My book is only 52 pages long, so not too many of them to do! It'll be interesting to see why AP is doing this. Thanks so much for your help! kenmcd 1 Quote
Old Bruce Posted May 1, 2022 Posted May 1, 2022 17 hours ago, Yellowhammer said: It'll be interesting to see why AP is doing this. 23 hours ago, Yellowhammer said: I'm having a problem importing a PDF created with Apple Pages ... I am going to say that the problem could be Pages exporting to PD, or Pages creating the Page numbers with an exclamation number in-between the digits and then applying massive tracking values. Did you have any Paragraph or Character styles applied to the Page numbers in Pages? Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
Yellowhammer Posted May 1, 2022 Author Posted May 1, 2022 1 hour ago, Old Bruce said: I am going to say that the problem could be Pages exporting to PD, or Pages creating the Page numbers with an exclamation number in-between the digits and then applying massive tracking values. Did you have any Paragraph or Character styles applied to the Page numbers in Pages? Yes, this could make sense, although there don't appear to be any styles applied. I did create a PDF with AP and loaded it back into AP - no problems at all. No worries, I manually removed the exclams and probably won't encounter that again. (Next time I'll just start my work in AP, not Pages!) Thanks all! Quote
kenmcd Posted May 2, 2022 Posted May 2, 2022 11 hours ago, Old Bruce said: I am going to say that the problem could be Pages exporting to PD, or Pages creating the Page numbers with an exclamation number in-between the digits and then applying massive tracking values. I checked the PDF and saw no ! character in there. And there are no styles or tracking info in the PDF. APub is guessing the tracking based on the letter spacing (badly). Quote
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