Calvert Posted February 10, 2023 Posted February 10, 2023 Due to lack of basic feature, there is only option to replace with another font when importing. Title speaks for itself. Clients send images with text that we cant get, so ability to import as curves would fix this. Quote
Paul Mudditt Posted February 10, 2023 Posted February 10, 2023 56 minutes ago, Calvert said: Due to lack of basic feature, there is only option to replace with another font when importing. Title speaks for itself. Clients send images with text that we cant get, so ability to import as curves would fix this. For any app, no knowledge of the font would mean no clue how to convert to curves as it wouldn’t by definition know what it looks like. Only the app with the correct fonts installed know what shapes they form and could convert to curves on export. PaulEC 1 Quote Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.5 on macOS 15.3 Beta Sequoia on M1 Mac Mini 16GB 1TB Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.5 on Windows 10 Pro. (revived !) Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.5 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS beta 18.3 https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityForiPad https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityPhoto/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/affinityphotoastrophotography The hardest link to find https://affinity.help Mud’s Macros Library:- https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/156842-muds-macros-v11-library-content-aware-move-added/
Calvert Posted February 10, 2023 Author Posted February 10, 2023 Seems like you and Affinity is the one with out a clue since my other software's have this ability. I guess Im spoiled as all my other software has this ability as I even attach a screenshot of 1 of them. I guess you get what you pay for here. Quote
Paul Mudditt Posted February 10, 2023 Posted February 10, 2023 51 minutes ago, Calvert said: Seems like you and Affinity is the one with out a clue since my other software's have this ability. I guess Im spoiled as all my other software has this ability as I even attach a screenshot of 1 of them. I guess you get what you pay for here. If the font exists for the import app, sure they could import correctly as curves as they know what it looks like. Quote Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.5 on macOS 15.3 Beta Sequoia on M1 Mac Mini 16GB 1TB Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.5 on Windows 10 Pro. (revived !) Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.5 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS beta 18.3 https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityForiPad https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityPhoto/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/affinityphotoastrophotography The hardest link to find https://affinity.help Mud’s Macros Library:- https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/156842-muds-macros-v11-library-content-aware-move-added/
walt.farrell Posted February 10, 2023 Posted February 10, 2023 2 hours ago, Calvert said: Due to lack of basic feature, there is only option to replace with another font when importing. Title speaks for itself. Clients send images with text that we cant get, so ability to import as curves would fix this. I agree this could be useful, but if the Affinity applications could use embedded fonts in the PDF (which they cannot), then you wouldn't need to convert to curves. So this is really a request, I think, to support embedded fonts. And in any case the lack of this function is not a bug, so your topic would be more appropriate in the Feedback forum in my opinion. Possibly a moderator will move it when they get to this topic. Paul Mudditt and PaulEC 2 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Calvert Posted February 13, 2023 Author Posted February 13, 2023 On 2/10/2023 at 9:19 AM, Paul Mudditt said: If the font exists for the import app, sure they could import correctly as curves as they know what it looks like. NO, the font does NOT EXIST for the import app, as these are files that are sent to me my by customers, that I dont have the font for.....I run Flexi, Adobe, Corel,as well as Serif on the exact same PC with 4 monitors for comparison running side by side, and the same 6000 fonts.. As I stated, Flexi does NOT have access to the correct font, however it will import the text as a vector shape as I posted before. Just because you hadnt seen it, doesnt mean its not possible. PaulEC 1 Quote
walt.farrell Posted February 13, 2023 Posted February 13, 2023 42 minutes ago, Calvert said: As I stated, Flexi does NOT have access to the correct font, however it will import the text as a vector shape as I posted before. Just because you hadnt seen it, doesnt mean its not possible. It is possible, for applications which support the use of embedded fonts in PDF files, and when the PDF file has the font embedded. But as I mentioned, the Affinity applications do not support the use of embedded fonts. I see that a Moderator has moved your request to the Feedback section of the forums, as I predicted. PaulEC 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Pšenda Posted February 13, 2023 Posted February 13, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Calvert said: the font does NOT EXIST for the import app As Paul already wrote, if the font "does not exist", then in principle it is impossible to create a shape - what the "non-existent" font would look like. That is why the applications use embedded fonts that were inserted into the imported pdf, so that for these applications even the non-installed font "exists". And as already mentioned, the Affinity application cannot process embedded fonts yet, but it has been requested many times before:https://www.google.com/search?q=embedded+font+site:https://forum.affinity.serif.com On 2/10/2023 at 1:16 PM, Calvert said: Title speaks for itself. I think the title "When importing pdf, Inability to import unknown text as paths" is not correct. Apparently the word "font" should be used there. I think that reconstructing non-existent text would be an even bigger masterpiece than reconstructing a non-existent font 🙂 P.S. However, in order to avoid a formally incorrect confusion of the words non-existent, unknown and not installed, the title of the post should be modified to "... Inability import text with non-installed font as path". Edited February 13, 2023 by Pšenda Paul Mudditt 1 Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.5.7.2948 (Retail) Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100.2605. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100.2605. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130.
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