Font is rendered wrongly in an erratic way on export

[mkayi]

Hi,

I am compiling a magazine, right now. 28 pages. I use the font "Magneto" as a graphical headline, white font colour, red contour. Throughout the magazine, some of the headlines are rendered like in this screenshot

 

Most of the headlines are totally fine. It does not seem to have to do with size, because on the same doublespread another headline the same size looks right.

What might be going on, here?

[mkayi]

sorry forgot to add: while editing the magazine, all the fonts are rendered correctly, of course. Problems shown are only in the PDF export.

Also: this mis-rendering seems to occur in the (digital) Profile only. While this is kind of a relief for the upcoming export of the print version, I would really like to be able to publish a compressed little PDF of the same magazine with correctly rendered fonts, so I am still interested in resolving this problem

 

[kenmcd]

1 hour ago, mkayi said:

What might be going on, here?

I assume you are using the font version from your Windows 10.
Which is Magneto Bold, v1.00, OpenType-TT (.ttf).

And it looks like you have applied a stoke outline to the text.
Affinity apps sometimes have problems with TrueType fonts inside of strokes, inside of other shapes, and when characters overlap - they seem to get confused by the differing types of curves.

A potential workaround is to use an OpenType-PS (.otf) version of the font.
Then all the overlapping curves are the same type (and go the same direction).
In some other cases that worked.

So to test, I will send you a converted OpenType-PS (.otf) version via PM.
(named differently so you can install both)
See if that works.
And please come back here to post your results.

Note: the commercial version does have an OpenType-PS (.otf) version available.

 

[laurent32]

6 minutes ago, kenmcd said:

A potential workaround is to use an OpenType-PS (.otf) version of the font.

You could also convert to curves ?

If the job is urgent… ?

[mkayi]

Thanks for your reply!

Question about "And it look like you have applied a stoke outline to the text."

This implies there are various ways to go about that and I can't tell you what I did other than on the graphic text menu I made changes to the contour tab. Are there other ways which are safer?

The .otf version (thanks for all your efforts!) can be used freely license-wise in case I see it works better right off the bat?

One thing that made me wonder and which might get relevant when editing this: sometimes I want to change several elements of the same type (say five text frames or three rectangular image frames) all at once, e.g. setting a contour line or the like. But when I have several selected the element specific menus in the toolbar disappear and are replaced with more generic ones. This makes batch editing impossible. Am I missing something?

[kenmcd]

3 minutes ago, laurent32 said:

You could also convert to curves ?

If the job is urgent… ?

I do not know if that would work (do not remember that from the other cases).

But seems like a really good idea to try.

[mkayi]

Thanks, Laurent, my hand hovered over that checkbox during export already. I just wasn't sure about it, lol. But that might also be a remedy, right?

[mkayi]

Hey, @kenmcdso, with the otf the font rendering shows the same artifacts as before on low quality settings.

EDIT: ...but settings "rasterize everything" and "text to curves" alleviates the problems!

Thanks everyone for your helpful replies! Since the font was rendered trashy only on low settings I have now no problem for the print version and can set the low quality PDF to "curves". Does transforming text to curves any problems for printing, btw? Is that advised against for some reason? Kinda seems to me to be a failsafe fallback solution...but I don't really have anything like a solid foundation in DTP