anweid Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 Affinity Publisher 1.7.0.139 on Windows 7 (64bit, German) behaves as follows: Create a text with a font that supports several OpenType features like stylistic sets. The screenshot was done with 'TheSans E4s' by known font designer Lucas de Groot. With no OpenType feature used, the text always behaves properly. With certain OpenType features enabled, the metrics of corresponding characters become garbled, so that the resulting text is sometimes unusable. For reference, the screenshot shows shaded fields and blue text frames. Here some remarks concerning the image: The 1st and 2nd line use 'normal' text, and everything's fine. The 3rd and 4th line use 'ss11' and, by some mysterious reason, though both lines contain the same text, the line with the date field contains too much space behind the '1'. When checking the '1' in right-aligned text, the ss11 version suddenly doesn't have too much space behind it, but appears to have negative metrics at the right, so that it overlaps the frame. Checking the same with differently styled versions of the 'Q' character produces the same error: The 'normal' Q is correct, any of the styled versions has negative metrics. This definitely seems to be a bug in Publisher, because every other software I tried does this correctly. Affinity Designer 1.6.5.123 also yields correct results (no additional white space, proper alignment). If Publisher and Designer use the same code base for OpenType support, please revert Publisher to Designer's correct behaviour. Andreas Weidner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_K Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 Hi Andreas Weidner If this is specific to a stylistic set in this font than we may need you to provide the font. You can upload it using this link. If it also happens with other fonts are you able to list some for us to try? Thanks Serif Europe Ltd - Check the latest news at www.affinity.serif.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 Hi Chris, you will find similar metrics issues with nearly all Adobe fonts (Arno Pro, Adobe Text Pro, Adobe Garamond Pro, Adobe Caslon Pro, etc.) when selecting certain number styles on the Mac. I guess you have a bunch of them on your hard drive. Don’t know if this is the same issue. Just wanted to mention. Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 13 minutes ago, Chris_K said: Hi Andreas Weidner If this is specific to a stylistic set in this font than we may need you to provide the font. You can upload it using this link. If it also happens with other fonts are you able to list some for us to try? Thanks Simply put, APub is broken just like my post you wanted the font for. There are several posts about this issue in the forum from different people. These combinations work in AD, at least all the fonts I tried. A_B_C 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anweid Posted October 5, 2018 Author Share Posted October 5, 2018 Please find attached an Affinity Publisher file as demonstration of the Metrics havoc. The file uses the fonts Consolas and Calibri, both bundled with Windows 7, and both even from the same Font Designer as the previously mentioned 'TheSans'. The following problems can be seen: For right-aligned text, more or less all enabled features produce 100% negative metrics for the last character in every line. For left-aligned text, special functions like automatic numbering or fields produce too large white space to the right of numbers with enabled features. If used as standard text, the metrics seem to be OK. Andreas Weidner MetricsProblems.afpub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 Looks like this on the Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anweid Posted October 7, 2018 Author Share Posted October 7, 2018 Apparently, Consolas on a Mac doesn't support the features ss04, ss05 and ss06 (the character design doesn't change), and this is why the right-aligning problem doesn't appear there... Andreas Weidner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted October 7, 2018 Share Posted October 7, 2018 Ah, wait … I believe that version of Consolas was a legacy version. The current one shows the issue as well. I updated my screenshot in the post above. My fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted October 15, 2018 Staff Share Posted October 15, 2018 Hi anweid, A_B_C, I'm seeing similar issues with other fonts as well. I'm filling a bug report with a link to this and other thread where these issues have been reported. Thank you all. A_B_C 1 A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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