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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?

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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.

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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!

 

Posted
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?

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.

Posted
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!

Posted
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).

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