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I have to modify a PDF where I can reorganize sections of a music PDF. The music comes through just fine, as well as most of the text. However the vocal lines have the weirdest letter spacing I have seen. Publisher imports text with tabs in the middle of the lyrics. The lyrics are in Times New Roman, so its not a case of me not having the right font on my computer.

InDesign and Acrobat Pro can open it just fine, as well as several other files. I certainly am puzzled by this behaviour. I'm pulling the plug on Adobe the middle of January, and would really like to sort this out. I don't modify music very often at all, but this gives me pause with Affinity's relationship with PDFs.

Affinity Publisher vs PDF.png

Excerpt- Acrobat-On Eagle's Wings - Eb Major.pdf

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5 hours ago, Larry Fjeldstrom said:

I have to modify a PDF

Publisher is not a PDF editor. Publisher attempts to interpret the PDF stream if you open a PDF document and converts it to an Affinity document as good as it can.

5 hours ago, Larry Fjeldstrom said:

InDesign

… just places the PDF as is. Same as if you would place (not open) a PDF in Publisher. InDesign cannot directly edit PDFs, unless you use an overpriced 3rd party plugin.

5 hours ago, Larry Fjeldstrom said:

Acrobat Pro can open it just fine

Yep, Acrobat Pro is your correct tool to edit PDF natively. :) 

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