chris51 Posted October 10, 2023 Posted October 10, 2023 MacOS Sonoma 14.0 / Affinity Publisher 1.10.6 Recently, PDFs created in afpub can no longer be edited in afpub and under "Layers" the following appears: No frame texts, just individual letters as curves! Does anyone have a solution to the problem? Quote
Dan C Posted October 10, 2023 Posted October 10, 2023 Hi @chris51, Welcome to the Affinity Forums This will either depend on your PDF export settings, or Import settings within Affinity Publisher. When exporting to PDF, please double check your current settings under the 'More...' dialog, specifically the Embed Fonts option, as if this is set to 'Text as Curves', you will see the behaviour shown in your screenshot above - Equally, when importing your PDF I recommend enabling the 2 options highlighted below, as this will allow the Affinity app to attempt to import your PDF text as editable - I hope this helps! Quote
walt.farrell Posted October 10, 2023 Posted October 10, 2023 50 minutes ago, chris51 said: Does anyone have a solution to the problem? Are you Opening the PDF or Placing it? 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 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
chris51 Posted October 11, 2023 Author Posted October 11, 2023 Dan C, thank you for your instructions, which I used before, but it didn't help! Is it perhaps possible that the problems with the PDF engine under MacOS Sonora play a role? walt.farrell, I open it by clicking on it by pressing the Control key and choosing "open with afpub". Or I drag the pdf directly onto the afpub icon in the dock... walt.farrell 1 Quote
Dan C Posted October 11, 2023 Posted October 11, 2023 33 minutes ago, chris51 said: Is it perhaps possible that the problems with the PDF engine under MacOS Sonora play a role? Although possible, we haven't seen any similar reports from other Affinity/Sonoma users, and I'm not seeing the same behaviour here. Are you able to provide a copy of the Affinity document before you export to PDF, and a screenshot showing your PDF export settings please? Quote
chris51 Posted October 11, 2023 Author Posted October 11, 2023 Aaah, just found out the error: old fonts like Meta, The Mix, Bauhaus etc. from MacOS Snow Leopard - Sierra caused this confusion! Fonts such as Helvetica from newer operating systems work perfectly! Thank you for your efforts! Dan C 1 Quote
Oufti Posted October 11, 2023 Posted October 11, 2023 52 minutes ago, Dan C said: 1 hour ago, chris51 said: Is it perhaps possible that the problems with the PDF engine under MacOS Sonoma play a role? Although possible, we haven't seen any similar reports from other Affinity/Sonoma users, and I'm not seeing the same behaviour here. Might it be related to old Type1 (Postscript) fonts? Since Catalina, Apple doesn't support them anymore. https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/09/27/sonoma-puts-the-last-nail-in-the-coffin-for-postscript-on-macos Quote Affinity Suite 2.5 – Monterey 12.7.5 – MacBookPro 14" 2021 M1 Pro 16Go/1To I apologise for any approximations in my English. It is not my mother tongue.
chris51 Posted October 12, 2023 Author Posted October 12, 2023 2 minutes ago, chris51 said: yes, that seems to be the reason! Thanks for the link! Oufti 1 Quote
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