SteveP58 Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 As a magazine publisher, we receive PDF files from customers who use fonts we don't have installed on our PCs. If we open or place one of these PDFs into a document, we don't want it to replace the font as this can have unpredictable results. We need to be able to keep the integrity of the document so it looks exactly as the client intended. We can do this in InDesign, as it uses the embedded fonts within the PDF document. The reason we switched to InDesign from Page Plus was because of this issue and it looks like it's not been sorted for Affinity Publisher. I had big hopes for this product and would love to start using Serif over Adobe again but this seems to be one issue which you cannot resolve. Your comments/advice would be appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 At the moment there is no passthrough PDF functionality available. Probably will not be in release version, later though. You can try printing a PDF to .ps file and place that. There have been reports that fonts are then converted to curves and import well to Publisher. Alternative is to convert to pixel format and suffer the lower quality. Or you can ask customers to convert fonts to curves in export (now that would be a mess..) It is all extra work though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveP58 Posted October 18, 2018 Author Share Posted October 18, 2018 Thanks Fixx for the update and the tip about .ps file. It is a workaround but isn't ideal. I think this issue could put a lot of commercial users off using Affinity Publisher - I certainly wouldn't consider using it over InDesign until it's sorted on the release version. Comment from Serif support would be appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 I'm afraid all I can say is that support for fonts embedded in PDF will be added eventually, but not for the first release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveP58 Posted October 19, 2018 Author Share Posted October 19, 2018 Shame, it's a deal breaker for us, but thanks for the update anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simoncox Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 Now we have the first edition out is there any movement on this issue? I also publish magazines and pull advertising PDFs into the layout - want to get off Quark as soon as I can but this is a big issue. md_germany 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 42 minutes ago, simoncox said: Now we have the first edition out is there any movement on this issue? I also publish magazines and pull advertising PDFs into the layout - want to get off Quark as soon as I can but this is a big issue. No. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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