Mr Lucky Posted September 14, 2016 Share Posted September 14, 2016 Affinity sems to be great, apart from this one issue I have. I hope somebody van help. I am importing a page of music score from Logic Pro. This exports from Logic as a PDF. With Photoshop, these imported with no problems, however with Affinity, the music is not showing properly. When importing I am prompted to replace the missing font Ascore, which I have never heard of. (I am using Sonata, Bravura and Swing fonts - all standard music fonts) No such prompt with Photoshop, it just imports and looks correct. I have attached a couple of files, one showing how it imports to Photoshop and the other how it appears in Affinity. I hope this is just a setting I need to change because this is important to my workflow and I just bought Affinity (and cancelled PS before testing this aspect of my work) Photoshop import Affinity import Can anyone please help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted September 14, 2016 Share Posted September 14, 2016 Ascore is proprietary to Logic Pro, tho' not necessary to use. I know nothing about .pdf file specs, but perhaps there is a default reference to ascore in the file. I know that at one time, Adobe products sometimes required fonts to be embedded in the document in case they were not installed on the machine opening the document. Later, there would sometimes be default substitutions. Are there export options in Logic that enable font embedding? Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted September 14, 2016 Share Posted September 14, 2016 I don't think Affinity can read fonts embedded in PDFs. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 15, 2016 Staff Share Posted September 15, 2016 No, currently Affinity Designer/Photo don’t support embedded fonts when importing PDF’s. You need to have them installed to edit the text. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Lucky Posted September 15, 2016 Author Share Posted September 15, 2016 No, currently Affinity Designer/Photo don’t support embedded fonts when importing PDF’s. You need to have them installed to edit the text. OK thanks. I don't actually want/need to edit the text, I just want to resize and saves as .png for web images. Ironic that Photoshop imports from Logic, but a Mac oriented application Affinity doesn't :) Oh well, I have a workaround, import into Preview then export as TIFF and import that into Affinity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 15, 2016 Staff Share Posted September 15, 2016 We will add support for embedded fonts but since this is not something trivial to achieve it may still take a while until it becomes available in Affinity apps. Mr Lucky 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konspaul Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 Trivial or not but I have struggled with this problem from the very beginning of Affinity Designer. Many times I have opened a PDF simply to find out that it is not possible to work on it as the embedded fonts is not supported in AD. Please make this trivial! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Lucky Posted January 11, 2017 Author Share Posted January 11, 2017 We will add support for embedded fonts but since this is not something trivial to achieve it may still take a while until it becomes available in Affinity apps. Any news on this yet? Please! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted January 11, 2017 Staff Share Posted January 11, 2017 Hi Mr Lucky, No, sorry. As i said, this will take some time to implement. The dev teams are focused/working on what's planned in the roadmaps. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jer Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Ascore is proprietary to Logic Pro, tho' not necessary to use. ... Maybe ask Logic Pro if they will provide you with the Ascore font. Sometimes a simple request will be answered. Unless you will be using it in an unacceptable or illegal manner. If they will make it available to you, that would seem to be a better workaround (non-workaround?). Then you could replace it with whichever fonts you prefer while in Affinity. Quote ♥ WIN 10 AD & AP ♥ Lenovo Legion Y520 15.6" Laptop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZicWorld Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 Hii everybody To edit your score coming from Logic Pro X, you just need to export it as Postscript. You will have your score in vector mode. So Print > Save as postscript Thats all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Lucky Posted November 5, 2018 Author Share Posted November 5, 2018 On 8/1/2017 at 6:24 PM, ZicWorld said: To edit your score coming from Logic Pro X, you just need to export it as Postscript. You will have your score in vector mode. So Print > Save as postscript Thats all! Bit late to answer this but thanks that is a good tip for when you want to work on a whole score or page. Part of the problem though is for smaller excerpts I'm doing, ie Musical exercises. In this case logic has a camera tool that sdefines a selection of part of the page and exports that to PDF. This is what I mostly want to use, that will only export to PDF. However your method will be an interim workaround as I can edit the bits I want in Designer. An alternative method I found was to export the PDF from Logic, open in Preview and then export to PNG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 On 9/15/2016 at 12:44 AM, Mr Lucky said: Oh well, I have a workaround, import into Preview then export as TIFF and import that into Affinity. Damn, two years ago you stole my suggestion. 21 minutes ago, Mr Lucky said: An alternative method I found was to export the PDF from Logic, open in Preview and then export to PNG. You just now stole my other suggestion. You're good. [admiration emoticon] [smiley-face emoticon] Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Lucky Posted November 5, 2018 Author Share Posted November 5, 2018 Amazing how I forgot things like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazusak7 Posted April 5, 2019 Share Posted April 5, 2019 Hello Mr Lucky I just found your post, and I am wondering you got any solution to your problem...I think I am going through same problem with you.... I am using a music score maker App called Symphony pro, and the app only exports the document to PDF.... When I open the PDF created by Symphony app with Affinity, it shows that there is missing font called Bravura, and all 8th notes's flag becomes squares. I tried to install the font, but it failed. I understand I can use Preview and export the file to PNG etc, but it will be so much easier and flexible to add and change things if Affinity works. Please advise.. Thanks!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 12 hours ago, kazusak7 said: Please advise.. Install needed fonts. There is not much else to do if you want the PDF to be editable in Designer. On 9/15/2016 at 10:44 AM, Mr Lucky said: Ironic that Photoshop imports from Logic, but a Mac oriented application Affinity doesn't Lot of apps can import PDF as image. If pixel image is all that is needed I propose not using Affinity but convert to pixel document in Preview as already suggested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted February 17, 2020 Staff Share Posted February 17, 2020 We have made fixes/improvements to this area (PDF with musical notes font - Maestro - does not import correctly) of the program in the latest customer beta. If you would like to try these changes the beta software is available in the forum posts listed below. The latest beta builds are downloadable from links at the top of each of these beta forum posts. Affinity Publisher 1.8.0.556 for Windows Affinity Publisher 1.8.0.556 for Mac These betas install parallel, next to the release version (they do not overwrite your release) and so the fixes can be tried in the beta without affecting your normal workflow in the release version. Once these programs have been through a full beta process the change will be released in a future free 1.8.0 update/patch to all customers. IMPORTANT This fix will also be made available in Designer and Photo in forthcoming 1.8.0.x beta builds and the final release builds Quote Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayco the rayco Posted March 8, 2020 Share Posted March 8, 2020 Hello developers, hello at all, first of all: English is not my native language, and so I hope, it is reasonably understandable what I mean. I have the same challenge with from LogicPro exported PDFs. Its a mess. I'm an avid user of Affinity Photo / Designer, but I can't understand that since September 2016 (the first posting here in this thread) till today (March 2020) developers have been ignored users' desire to implement the simple ability to import flat PDF files into Affinity Photo, like many other apps, such as Apple Preview or Photoshop are able to do this. The same with layered TIFF´s. I was hoping for a workaround, converted 20 pages as layered TIFF odd png ... but imported by Affinity Photo was only the first page. Not so in the Apple Preview App ... not so in Photoshop. Affinity Apps are really GREAT, GREAT tools, ... all the more I can't understand that. Our wish: Hear our request and make PDF, TIFF, PNG import ability great! Best Regards Rayco www.rayco-records.de Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Lucky Posted January 21, 2023 Author Share Posted January 21, 2023 On 9/15/2016 at 5:55 PM, MEB said: We will add support for embedded fonts but since this is not something trivial to achieve it may still take a while until it becomes available in Affinity apps. On 10/11/2016 at 4:36 PM, Konspaul said: Trivial or not but I have struggled with this problem from the very beginning of Affinity Designer. Many times I have opened a PDF simply to find out that it is not possible to work on it as the embedded fonts is not supported in AD. Please make this trivial! On 1/11/2017 at 5:49 PM, MEB said: Hi Mr Lucky, No, sorry. As i said, this will take some time to implement. The dev teams are focused/working on what's planned in the roadmaps. It makes me really sad that 5 years later (with presumably a roadmap) this never made it to version 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
José Miguel Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 Hello, I also have this problem. I can't properly open a pdf file. It tells me that I don't have the AScore font. Is there already a solution? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Lucky Posted January 23, 2023 Author Share Posted January 23, 2023 1 hour ago, José Miguel said: Hello, I also have this problem. I can't properly open a pdf file. It tells me that I don't have the AScore font. Is there already a solution? Apparently not. I’d really prefer if they just “no we won’t do this” as opposed to implying they will, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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