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Bug on some PDF exports with Opentype TTC font collections


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Beta 2.0.3.1670.

I have created a page containing some Angsana fonts. This is a collection containing 8 free Microsoft fonts: AngsanaUPC in Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, and Angsana New in Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic.

🟩All export formats work correctly except for some PDFs, all previews work correctly, everything works correctly on the screen, everything works correctly in printing.

🟩PDF (Flatten), PDFX (1a:2003) are correct. These two formats are hardly ever used in in the printing industry anymore.

🟥No other PDF exports are correct and they usually display one or 2 of the 4 AngsanaUPC fonts. It is therefore impossible to publish a digital or print book with an Opentype collection.

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AngsanaUPC.afpub angsana.ttc

6 cœurs, 12 processus - Windows 11 pro - 4K - DirectX 12 - Suite universelle Affinity (Affinity  Publisher, Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo).

███ Mais je vous le demande, peut-on imaginer une police sans sérifs ?

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Isn't this the same problem you've already reported against V1? If so, it probably just isn't fixed yet:

 

-- Walt
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It turns out that the bug has still not been completely fixed.

It's a bit like building a nice car where everything works but you forgot to make the ignition key. Without usable PDFs, all the work done on the TTC is useless.

This old format is now usable everywhere except in the Affinity suite. For those interested: FileFormat and Microsoft.

 

6 cœurs, 12 processus - Windows 11 pro - 4K - DirectX 12 - Suite universelle Affinity (Affinity  Publisher, Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo).

███ Mais je vous le demande, peut-on imaginer une police sans sérifs ?

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The issue appears to be with this particular TTC. Windows and macOS both include an increasing number of TTC files - and most appear to work as expected (now).

When you posted this the 2nd time, I took a look at this. Confirmed the same problem when testing your doc.

So I extracted the TTC to the separate TTF files expecting to find some sort of names issue - and found nothing wrong. Quite baffled.

Other TTC files appear to be working correctly. And this TTC works correctly in other applications.

So Affinity devs need to look at why this TTC does not Export to PDF correctly in APub.

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