Ligatures is locked on in Affinity Photo and Publisher with font Palatino

[BlytheA]

Following is the text of the first set of emails with Affinity about the ligature problem. I have been going around and around on this for two months. Callum's replies have deteriorated, until today he told me to replace the "ff's" on thousands of pages, rather than affinity fixing the problem. This problem exists with Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher. I work in an Apple environment, mostly on a MacBookPro, OS Version 12.6

I will be forwarding the current set of emails, if this communication fails to manifest a solution. I remind anyone who reads this that this problem did not exist before Affinity started selling V2:

Hi Callum,

Attached are the files of a short essay, Grounded Angels (© Blythe Ayne) in: 

1.) the original Apple Pages pdf

2.) the afphoto file

3.) the afphoto generated PDF/X1a:2003 file

 

Please keep in mind that most of what I need Affinity Photo for is 300-400 page books, justified and in Palatino font. Grounded Angels has 7 “ff” turned into boxes.

 

My Process:

1.) I bring a document (generated in Apple Pages word processing program) into Affinity Photo. 

 

2.) Save it to afphoto. 

 

3.) Then export it as a PDF for Print – PDF/X1a:2003. 

 

It (used to) immediately produce a beautiful file, ready to send to print. (Apple Pages makes a pdf, but it is not PDF/X1a:2003.)

 

It used to be so simple. Then, suddenly, there is a horrible, horrible glitch where I cannot turn off ligatures, no matter what I do, which turns “ff” (off, officer, official, affinity, etc., etc.) into boxes.

 

When I turn Ligatures off, it just turns back on. PLEASE FIX THIS!

 

Blythe

Blythe@1blythe.com

Grounded Angels-Life in the Country–Blythe Ayne.pdf Grounded Angels (from Life in the Country) Blythe Ayne.afphoto Grounded Angels (from Life in the Country) Blythe Ayne.pdf

[MikeTO]

Hi Blythe, you posted this question in two areas and I've replied in the other one.