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The stroke weight for lettering is getting weird when I export to PDF.  The following is an example of what I'm talking about.  

The screenshot with the blue box and arrows is what my affinity file looks like. 

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The screenshot of the same thing without the blue box is what the PDF export looks like.  

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Things get weird when you find that this exported as a PDF just fine yesterday which is why I believe this may be a bug.  

I've also attached my export presets which I believe were the same yesterday.

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Posted (edited)

I have found a workaround (but you're not going to like it).  See image below:

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For some reason I have 2 different versions of Affinity Publisher 2 on my computer.  I just found this out.  When I open a file directly the newest version of Affinity2 opens but when I click on the icon I placed on my dock the older version opens.  See image below: 

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The sad news is that it's version 2.5.5 that makes this bug happen.  2.4.0 exports PDFs just fine.

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Check your settings of 2.4 versus 2.5.5

Not just the PDF export settings but the performance settings (e.g. Hardware acceleration, etc)

 

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As a quick test you can try switching off Hardware Acceleration on the 2.5.5 version

Other than that, if you can upload that document/page to the forum. The support staff will be able to confirm if it is a 2.5.5 issue and get it logged accordingly

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Hi @ClamsDown,
Welcome to Affinity Forums :)
Does the stroke of the text is aligned to inside or outside? Seems to me the stroke is being expanded on export causing the issues you are seeing in the PDF. If so try to set the stroke alignment to center and check if it exports fine. It's possible this is related to some known issues/bugs when expanding paths introduced in version 2.5, but without seeing the file i can't say for sure. You can always export from v2.4 which does not use the new expand code if your file opens fine there.
 

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15 hours ago, MEB said:

Hi @ClamsDown,
Welcome to Affinity Forums :)
Does the stroke of the text is aligned to inside or outside? Seems to me the stroke is being expanded on export causing the issues you are seeing in the PDF. If so try to set the stroke alignment to center and check if it exports fine. It's possible this is related to some known issues/bugs when expanding paths introduced in version 2.5, but without seeing the file i can't say for sure. You can always export from v2.4 which does not use the new expand code if your file opens fine there.
 

The stroke alignment was centered.  I've now aligned the stroke weight to the inside and the issue persists.  See image below: 

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This is what the stroke weight looks like aligned to the outside: 

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And for full circle, this is centered:

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Posted

Hi @ClamsDown,

Could you confirm the font used in your screenshot, the font size and the stroke width so we can test the issue here...

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Posted

@ClamsDown,

Thanks for the screengrab...

It shows a stroke width of 0 pt which doesn't sound right or am I missing something?

Also, once exported to PDF, if you open the PDF in Publisher is the text still editable?

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Posted
32 minutes ago, ClamsDown said:

Oh weird.  Stroke should be .6pt.  Here is another screenshot of it as .6pt with highlightable text in Preview:

Thanks for confirming...

I've just tried this using varying font sizes and I'm not seeing the same issue... Where did the original version of Gill Sans Semibold Italic come from?

As a test could you uninstall the version you're using by right-clicking and removing it from the All Fonts section of Font Book (if you're using Font Book) and then installing the version downloadable from GitHub here...

https://github.com/maxpushkarev/resume/blob/master/fonts/GillSans-SemiBold.ttf

And then see if you see the same problem...

This is what I'm seeing in Preview...

Note: 30 pt with a 0.6 pt centred stroke is the top one followed by 36 pt, 48 pt and 64 pt with proportionally sized strokes...

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Posted

Mine looks fine until I export it.  Please be sure to export it to PDF.  Not sure why my font would create an error with the new version but not the older version.  To my knowledge this font came with my macbook.

Posted
Just now, ClamsDown said:

Please be sure to export it to PDF.

The screengrab is the exported PDF viewed in Apple Preview using the same export settings you've detailed above...

3 minutes ago, ClamsDown said:

Not sure why my font would create an error with the new version but not the older version.

Me neither... I appreciate you can't upload the original file but could you copy just the text shown in the screengrab along with the blue background to a new blank Publisher document and upload that as it may give us some clues as to the cause we're currently not seeing...

4 minutes ago, ClamsDown said:

To my knowledge this font came with my macbook.

Thanks for confirming...

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Posted

Hi @ClamsDown,

Many thanks for the file...

The issue is caused by the application of a Pressure Curve on the text stroke...

The Original Version - Top | Pressure Curve Removed and Stroke Weight Reduced to Match - Bottom

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Posted

Interesting.  For some reason I can't change the Pressure Curve to "none".  When I click the dropdown and select "none" it just switches back to "Pressure Curve".  How do I adjust this?

Posted
17 minutes ago, ClamsDown said:

Interesting.  For some reason I can't change the Pressure Curve to "none".  When I click the dropdown and select "none" it just switches back to "Pressure Curve".  How do I adjust this?

With the text frame selected you should be able to click the Reset button at the bottom right of the Pressure Curve panel...

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