Thai text will not export/print correctly even if Publisher is display correctly

[T.E.]

Hi,

Im using publisher 2.4
I Found that Thai text will not export/print correctly even if Publisher is display it correctly.
From screenshot below
I use 3 different fonts to test word "น้ำ"
Publisher itself are able to display it correcly in most of case
but when it come to export or print it will not produce what it seen on the app.
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test1.zip

[walt.farrell]

Perhaps this is (or is related to): https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&tags=AFD-1907 ?

[T.E.]

It might related, most of other problem that already reported are in the App itself
in my case,
it look like Publisher are able to display it correcly most of font are display in App perfect and correctly,
while some other font will will have just a minor problem (character stack in incorrect order but it readable)

but problem come when print/export most of stack characters moved to wrong place or on top of other character.

If I Convert text to curves or Rasterize layer
Publisher are able to print/export correctly.
but that would make my document uneditable.

[AiDon]

This may also be because the Kedamee keyboard is inconsistent with the  ำ vowel because it needs the tone mark before the vowel to display correctly. This is inconsistent with the way we would write it with consonant+vowel+tone mark.

[T.E.]

If we type in consonant น +vowel ำ+tone  ้

most of app will put vowel in the wrong places like this นำ้  (correctly it should be  น้ำ)

(Except MS Word that would fix vowel position automatically)

[T.E.]

Hi,

Problem that I report seem sloved with 2.5.x (that support Variable font)
evenif im not using variable font.

[TJH Art Studio]

A friend of mine sent me a pdf file with Thai fonts but when I opened it on any of the Affinity software it came out gibberish. It didn’t look anything like Thai letters. It seems the only way I can open it is in jpg but I can’t make any changes to the fonts if I open it like that. Does anyone have any ideas on what to do?

[T.E.]

Can you open in other PDF software such as Adobe Reader?

It sound like font might not embedded in PDF file

[kenmcd]

6 hours ago, TJH Art Studio said:

A friend of mine sent me a pdf file with Thai fonts but when I opened it on any of the Affinity software it came out gibberish. It didn’t look anything like Thai letters. It seems the only way I can open it is in jpg but I can’t make any changes to the fonts if I open it like that. Does anyone have any ideas on what to do?

What application was used to create PDF?

Can you attach the PDF?

[walt.farrell]

On 1/7/2025 at 3:18 AM, T.E. said:

It sound like font might not embedded in PDF file

Or it might be embedded in the file, but not installed on the user's computer.

@TJH Art Studio: Do you have the necessary fonts installed on your computer? Affinity applications cannot use fonts embedded in the PDF; they must be installed on your system, too.