Jonopen Posted September 8, 2018 Share Posted September 8, 2018 Affinity Designer v1.6.5.123 & Publisher beta, Windows 10 I've got a leaflet which was originally created in Adobe InDesign, then exported and printed from a PDF. It's the PDF file that I have to work with together with the fonts and images used within the document. Initially I installed the supplied fonts and opened the PDF in Xara Photo & Graphic Designer (v15.1), had a fiddle about with the text, then exported as a PDF (using the default 300dpi high quality setting) and viewed the PDF in Acrobat Reader and all looked ok. I then opened the same original PDF file in Affinity Designer, all looked good on screen but this time when I exported as a PDF (default PDF for print 300dpi) the text didn't display correctly. Out of interest I also tried opening it up in Affinity Publisher beta but had the same issue as Designer. I've made a screenshot showing the difference in text (Baskerville font) when viewing the PDFs and also of the PDF properties for the respective apps. I'm not sure what the different symbols against each font mean in the PDF font properties and what options I can change in AD/AP to help improve the look of the text? I've been trying a few different PDF export settings without success. Normally I would keep trying through trial and error, but there are so many permutations, and I suppose it could also be a bug. Quote v2.5.3 Designer/Photo/Publisher | Mac mini (M1, 2020) | Sonoma 14.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted September 10, 2018 Staff Share Posted September 10, 2018 Hi Janopen, The properties is showing that the Affinity Designer example uses a bold font while Xara uses a normal font. Thanks Callum Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonopen Posted September 10, 2018 Author Share Posted September 10, 2018 Ah, thanks Callum (well spotted!). I've not done this sort of work for quite a while and haven't found my rhythm yet. It always seems more difficult taking over some else's work. Quote v2.5.3 Designer/Photo/Publisher | Mac mini (M1, 2020) | Sonoma 14.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delosw Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 I had a similar problem. I made the pdf in Photo and it displays fine on my screen (Win). At work (Mac) it displays a bolder version or some of the letters are mashed together... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delosw Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 20 hours ago, delosw said: I had a similar problem. I made the pdf in Photo and it displays fine on my screen (Win). At work (Mac) it displays a bolder version or some of the letters are mashed together... Another anecdote... the graphics person in my office showed me that in Creator, you can't select a block of font and just make it bold by hitting the bold button - unless the font does not have a bold version. If it does have a bold version (Arial Bold) then you have to use that. I don't know if this is just happenstance or a similar issue. It's probably the first but I'll share it any way. I will experiment sometime and report back. Work is getting busy right now, so it will have to wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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