joe_l Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 Yes, I do know, that PDFsharp is not the best way to create a PDF, but I have no choice (sometimes). I made a test in V1 and V2 of APu and simply placed a PDF (embedded placement). In Transfer mode everything was fine, but switching to Interpret showed serious problems. In V1 everything was at least readable, but in V2 every character turned into a grey rectangle. Edit Document and trying to replace the missing fonts was fruitless in V2. V2 reported missing fonts, V1 not. I am sorry to say two things at this point: a) Unfortunately I am not allowed to provide sample documents and b) V2 is NOT ready for productive use (for me), not only because of different font treatment in V2 explained here, but also with crashes happening frequently (even simply closing a tab could cause a crash). I do hope things are getting better in a not so far future, because I LIKE Affinity V2, but there are too many showstopper right now. Quote ---------- Windows 10 / 11, Complete Suite Retail and Beta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhyatt52 Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 Likely this is font issues. Affinity took a big step backwards when they changed the way fonts are handled in the new 2.0 but I hope they get this resolved soon because the new changes sounded like it should be far better than the old method how they handled fonts. I ran into font issues already with exporting SVGs so I believe a workaround for now would be to convert your PDFs as curves to remove all fonts. Quote Windows 11 Hardware Acceleration: On MSI GF75 Thin 10UEK-048 Gaming Laptop - 17.3" 144 Hz IPS - Intel Core i7-10750H CPU @ 2.60GHz - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU 6 GB GDDR6 - 64 GB 3200Mhz DDR4 Memory - 512 GB NVMe SSD + 2 TB WD Blue SSD Dual Display: XPPen Artist 22E Pro 21.5 inch 1080p David Hyatt ATSOTC Magazine Editor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 Hi @joe_l, Thanks for your report and our sincerest apologies for the delayed response here. We are exceptionally busy following the release of V2 and we thank you for your continued patience and understanding here. On 11/24/2022 at 2:45 PM, joe_l said: Unfortunately I am not allowed to provide sample documents I appreciate you would not want to provide these files publicly, but it will be very hard for our team to address this issue without a sample file that demonstrates the issues/differences between V1 & V2 with your file. Would you be willing/able to provide a copy of this privately, via a Dropbox link? If so, please let me know and I can provide a link here for you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe_l Posted December 7, 2022 Author Share Posted December 7, 2022 9 minutes ago, Dan C said: Would you be willing/able to provide a copy of this privately, via a Dropbox link? Yes, I can do this. To add something strange. Placing the PDF in V1 looks fine ... until I close and reopen it. The text is shown wrong and minified. So I really suspect PDFSharp is to blame here, but the differences between V1 and V2 are interesting anyway. Quote ---------- Windows 10 / 11, Complete Suite Retail and Beta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 Much appreciated, the document can be uploaded to the below link - https://www.dropbox.com/request/KHnZAXe1BRxyi8MaEJWd That certainly is interesting behaviour, I'll be sure to test the file in both versions of the app and report my findings to the devs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe_l Posted December 7, 2022 Author Share Posted December 7, 2022 3 minutes ago, Dan C said: Much appreciated, the document can be uploaded to the below link This link is not valid or valid anymore, so you have to give me another one please. Quote ---------- Windows 10 / 11, Complete Suite Retail and Beta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 Sorry there was an issue with the first link provided and I quickly edited my post to include a new link but that might have been just after you tried to use it - can you please try once again for me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe_l Posted December 7, 2022 Author Share Posted December 7, 2022 3 minutes ago, Dan C said: can you please try once again for me? Done! Dan C 1 Quote ---------- Windows 10 / 11, Complete Suite Retail and Beta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 Many thanks for providing this for me! I've been able to replicate these issues with your file here, so I'm getting this logged with our developers now. Interestingly I can see when first opening the file in V1, the text appears at a negative size value, and rotated 180 degrees - Which I certainly haven't seen before and I suspect is the reason for the text appearing differently once the file has been saved, closed and reopened! Many thanks for your report joe_l 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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