cdw Posted May 20, 2023 Posted May 20, 2023 When I copy and paste InDesign text for some reason Publisher wants to turn on 'Ordinals' even though it wasn't turned on in InDesign; sounds like a bug to me?! Quote
walt.farrell Posted May 20, 2023 Posted May 20, 2023 14 minutes ago, cdw said: When I copy and paste InDesign text for some reason Publisher wants to turn on 'Ordinals' even though it wasn't turned on in InDesign; sounds like a bug to me?! If it sounds like a bug you should probably report it as one, not as feedback. 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 18.2.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
MikeTO Posted May 20, 2023 Posted May 20, 2023 I tested it with Photoshop since I don't have ID but the results will likely be the same. It's not a bug and is a limitation of Adobe's clipboard handling. Adobe is copying the text to the public pasteboard as plain text so when you paste into Affinity it will inherit the attributes at the cursor position. The formatted text is only copied to the private pasteboard which other apps don't have access to. Do you have ordinals turned on at the cursor position. You'll get similar results when pasting into MS Word or Apple Pages. Try copying text formatted with different fonts from ID to Affinity - do the different fonts come through? If so, it is copying rich text to the public pasteboard and doesn't work the same way as Photoshop. You can verify stuff like this by installing a pasteboard viewer to see what's on the macOS pasteboard. I use this one: https://sindresorhus.com/pasteboard-viewer walt.farrell 1 Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.2, MacBook Pro 14" (M4 Pro)
cdw Posted May 20, 2023 Author Posted May 20, 2023 I've just tried this and now the text comes in with 'Final Forms' turned on! I suppose I should be happy that it doesn't bring in 'Ordinals' anymore! 😖 Quote
kenmcd Posted May 20, 2023 Posted May 20, 2023 2 hours ago, cdw said: I've just tried this and now the text comes in with 'Final Forms' turned on! Affinity needs to change this. Other text shapers (such as InDesign's, Harfbuzz, DirectWrite, etc.) set Initial, Medial, and Final Forms to default Off for Latin scripts (and others). They only default On where needed (i.e. Arabic, etc.). Given that Affinity apps do not even support Arabic, and the large number of Latin fonts that use these features, and constant user confusion caused by this - Affinity should set these OpenType features to default Off for Latin script like all the other shapers. Quote
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