b.kaas Posted August 5, 2023 Share Posted August 5, 2023 We are working alternating on the same file, shared in a cloud. As you can see, the arrangement of the text does not look the same in some cases. The first picture is a screen shot from my computer, the second picture shows a pdf, exported from my partner's computer. The circles show, that one word ist hyphenated on his computer but not on mine. As we realised that texts turn out differently on some pages, we stopped working together on the same document. Do we have to match some settings on our devices? I assume all settings of paragraphs and charakter should be saved in the document - and not on the local computer. Is it because hyphenation is based on some sort of dictionary? So do we have to synchronise dictionaries? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 6, 2023 Share Posted August 6, 2023 Are you both using the same OS? Do you have identical fonts installed, and identical Hyphenation dictionaries? 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 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted August 6, 2023 Share Posted August 6, 2023 I doubt it's a matter of dictionaries or hyphenation but of different fonts with slightly different metrics that cause different text flow here or there and finally influence hyphenation. At least the numbers point to different fonts files. Compare the 54, 2022 and 2023: Yours are between x- and caps-height with some digits below the baseline (3, 4, 5) whereas those in your partner's PDF have all simply caps-height. Yours are "Mediävalziffern" (engl. "text figures"), your partner's are not. Some fonts offer both styles in separate files (e.g. 'Meta'). walt.farrell 1 Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anto Posted August 6, 2023 Share Posted August 6, 2023 The problem also occurs between different OSes. MacOS does not interpret correctly, for example, apostrophes inserted from Word, it is sensitive to the keyboard layout, although for Word and Windows, any apostrophe from any layout is interpreted correctly. This is a problem for me, I can't open the same document on different OSes because the whole layout goes away. The point about different versions of fonts is also correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b.kaas Posted August 6, 2023 Author Share Posted August 6, 2023 Thanks to all of you, for the technical hints and for the close look: I should have noticed the numbers myself. We will use the same fonts. That should be easy. As far as I know we both work on Windows, but I’ll check that out. I really wish we could share the final work. That would give us much more flexibility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted August 6, 2023 Share Posted August 6, 2023 13 hours ago, b.kaas said: We will use the same fonts. (…) I’ll check that out. Possibly you may get hints to deviating fonts if you open (not place) your partner's PDF with your Affinity on your computer. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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