SunRiseMoon Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 Hi, I've bought some illustrations with text made in AI. I did open a file in AD, and the text was too long, out of the border of the illustration. Is this a known issue or why does AD this? I thought, that especially text could never make such problem. The first screenshot is from the original guide, obviously made in AI, the second screenshot comes from the same file opened in AD, absolutely the right font, because I opened the same file in a friend's PC with AI installed, that illustration looked like the one from the guide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmrecs01 Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 I'm not at all sure about this, but since the line of text has a blue box around it can you not simply drag the right hand edge to the left and make the text "fit" within the correct space? Jeff Quote Win 10 Pro, i7 6700K, 32Gb RAM, NVidia GTX1660 Ti and Intel HD530 Graphics Long-time user of Serif products, chiefly PagePlus and PhotoPlus, but also WebPlus, CraftArtistProfessional and DrawPlus. Delighted to be using Affinity Designer, Photo, and now Publisher, version 1 and now version 2. iPad Pro (12.9") (iOS 17.4) running Affinity Photo and Designer version 1 and all three version 2 apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 It is perhaps the fact that the AI file has kerning and/or tracking applied to the text. AD only opens the PDF portion of the AI file. AD has an issue with this and can apply wide/narrow spacing to text and even the spacing between lines of text. I believe it is on Serif's radar to fix. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunRiseMoon Posted May 3, 2017 Author Share Posted May 3, 2017 I'm not at all sure about this, but since the line of text has a blue box around it can you not simply drag the right hand edge to the left and make the text "fit" within the correct space? Jeff Thanks, I had to select the text, because the AI-file had a wrong type of the font, ie. "light" instead of "regular". So I did correct it, and I left the selction. To scale the text wouldn't be enough. It is perhaps the fact that the AI file has kerning and/or tracking applied to the text. AD only opens the PDF portion of the AI file. AD has an issue with this and can apply wide/narrow spacing to text and even the spacing between lines of text. I believe it is on Serif's radar to fix. Mike Thanks, it seems to be an issue of AD. I could fit the word "MARCHÉ" by chnaging the values of "Tracking" as well as the values of "Horizontal Scale". But it's tricky. I was surprised, because I thought, that all of the parameters of text are the same and well known. First I thought to need the "Light"-type of the font, which was not included in the bundle, but in AI the logo was alright. Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 Horizontal scale probably wasn't needed. Likely just the tracking and kerning. Unless they used the horizontal scaling in AI as well anyway. But I wouldn't know what the creator did without seeing the AI file. Until Serif fix this, any pdf...or AI file with live text...where kerning/tracking and leading overrides (likely leading that is different from AD's default) have been done will need fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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