dave4224 Posted December 19, 2018 Posted December 19, 2018 Non-breaking hyphens look fine when using Avenir Next in AP, but they appear as a boxed question mark in PDFs. Not a massive problem, but needs to be looked out for. Is it a bug with the font, AP or is it just my setup? Non-breaking hyphens work fine if making the PDF from InDesign. They come out okay from AP if I use Helvetica instead. Don't know if other fonts go buggy.
Heikki Ohvo Posted December 20, 2018 Posted December 20, 2018 Avenir Next doesn’t have the right glyph for the non-breaking hyphen (U+2011) but Helvetica has. So, in my opinion you may need to use another font.
fde101 Posted December 20, 2018 Posted December 20, 2018 On 12/19/2018 at 7:43 AM, dave4224 said: Non-breaking hyphens look fine when using Avenir Next in AP AP = Affinity Photo or Affinity Publisher? I can tell because of which forum this is on, but for the benefit of the broader mindspace, I think we need to discontinue the use of AP as a product identifier in favor of APh and APu or similar to tell them apart. 3 hours ago, Heikki Ohvo said: Avenir Next doesn’t have the right glyph for the non-breaking hyphen Interesting then that it shows up in the software. I suspect that Publisher is recognizing the lack of a proper glyph and making a substitution of a regular hyphen with a different behavior, but still exports to the PDF with the "correct" non-breaking glyph, which "breaks" the feature of having made the substitution in the first place?
dave4224 Posted January 10, 2019 Author Posted January 10, 2019 Ah, thanks for the info, I didn't know that. I guess I could keep Avenir Next and do a find-and-change to Helvetica just for the non-breaking hyphen. There are some deadeye-dick typographers out there but I'd be surprised if that gets noticed, unless deliberately searched in a PDF. I used to have to do something similar with some of the funkier fonts years ago. APu, APub etc., I see what you mean.
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