Craig Weightman Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 I installed version 145 and attempted to load an old PDF file created under PagePlus8. In loading in the file (a small one of 84k) I was notified that Ariel was an unknown font. I thought this unusual, but substituted Calibri and continued. The program suggested a few spelling changes, I made them, exported the program to a PDF file, and closed the file without saving anything to Publisher format - I just wanted the small PDF file and not to make further changes. I then reopened the file and found all my "ti" characters had been changed to a capital E with umlaut on the top of it. When I open the PDF file in a PDF reader, the "ti" characters are all correctly shown, but not if I open the PDF file in Affinity Publisher. 2017 - White Rage.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 Likely a font embedding issue. Try the attached PDF. On your APub copy, try clicking on More and turn off subsetting the font. Also, you likely could have substituted the "missing" Arial for Arial if desired. Internally, the font used in the PDF is embedded and so the name is different (in the PDF) and so APub sees the name difference and offers to replace it. 2017 - White Rage3.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 In both versions, the superscripts ‘th’ and ‘st’ are missing (from the references to the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments on pages 1 and 2, and the 1st Amendment and the 20th century in page 2). In Craig’s version there are big gaps where those superscripts should be. Off-topic, in the heading halfway down page 4 the ‘c’ is missing from the name ‘Barack’. 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...
MikeW Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 Thanks, Alfred. Guess I missed a few. But that's OK...I also missed resetting some kerning and tracking, too...APub file and the PDF it produced attached. Mike 2017 - White Rage.afpub 2017 - White Rage4.pdf Alfred 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Weightman Posted October 15, 2018 Author Share Posted October 15, 2018 Ok, now I know more, but I still think this is a problem with Affinity Publisher beta 145. I produce a project in Publisher and save the project. If I produce a PDF file from the project it produces a file much smaller than my other PDF print options. However, if I bring that same PDF file back into Publisher, all my "ti" letter combinations are converted to E with umlaut. If I open the file in Edge browser then everything is fine. If I send the file to Amazon to convert it to my Kindle format, then I again lose all the "ti" letter combinations to an E with umlaut. If I take the PDF file and send it through another PDF file processor, then everything is fine and Affinity Publisher will load this new, and much larger, PDF file without any problem. It only seems to be a problem when I try to process a PDF file produced directly by Affinity Publisher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 33 minutes ago, Craig Weightman said: all my "ti" letter combinations are converted to E with umlaut Also your "tti" and "ft" ligatures are fine in Acrobat Reader but odd in Publisher when the PDF is reloaded. -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 45 minutes ago, Craig Weightman said: If I take the PDF file and send it through another PDF file processor, then everything is fine and Affinity Publisher will load this new, and much larger, PDF file without any problem. PDF files typically become very large when text is converted to ‘outlines’ (i.e. curves). Does your enlarged PDF file still contain editable text? 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...
Craig Weightman Posted October 16, 2018 Author Share Posted October 16, 2018 I am not concerned with the size of the PDF file, only its performance. If I am really going to use this file, and finalized Publisher makes files this big, I suspect I will use something else for the job. What this is about is reporting on the fact that I believe I have found something in the beta Export to PDF that needs to be fixed, at least in the Windows10 environment. The answer to your question is...yes, most of the file is editable text, in Publisher and I suspect I could Replace all occurrences. However, that is not what this is all about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_K Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 Hi Graig Thanks for this I have managed to recreate it, although it only seems to something I get using the ligatures with the Calibri font, I've tried multiple other fonts and they don't seems to do this. I shall report it to the development team. we aren't the only ones to have difficulties with these glyph for this font, a couple of other apps i have tried also display the wrong or missing glyphs If you find any other fonts that do this i would be good to know Cheers Serif Europe Ltd - Check the latest news at www.affinity.serif.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Weightman Posted October 16, 2018 Author Share Posted October 16, 2018 Good to know. I will go back to Ariel and try it myself. That's what this entire beta is for, after all. As far as I am concerned, you can close this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Weightman Posted October 16, 2018 Author Share Posted October 16, 2018 I have replaced Calibri with both Ariel and Cambria and the problem is still there. What I do is to go into the .afpub file (which is a 2nd document and I will include here), replace the Body font with either Ariel or Cambria and immediately Export that file to PDF. I then Close the document (Saving it on the way out), and then reopen the newly created PDF file, with the changed Body font. All fonts are based, originally, off the Body font, so that changes the font in the entire document. The only possible issue I see here is that I didn't Save the changed .afpub file BEFORE I Exported to PDF. 2017 - A Colony in a Nation.afpub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Weightman Posted October 16, 2018 Author Share Posted October 16, 2018 All work is done inside Affinity Publisher ...145 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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