William Overington Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 Can one include an attachment in a PDF document that is produced using Affinity Publisher? For example, sometimes I would like to use a font in a publication and also include the font as an attachment to the PDF document so that a reader may use the font for himself or herself if he or she so chooses. For the avoidance of doubt this is for fonts that I have made myself and so I own the intellectual property rights and have every right to publish it. For the avoidance of doubt, I know that one can embed a font in a PDF document so that the display is good even if the font used in the document is not installed on the computer where the PDF document is being displayed. This enquiry is not about doing that. This is about actually including an attachment within a PDF document. The attachment can then be extracted using Adobe Reader. William Overington Saturday 29 December 2018 Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 No, Publisher does not offer that capability today. William Overington 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Overington Posted January 4, 2019 Author Share Posted January 4, 2019 Thank you. William Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 And I sincerely doubt this capability will (or even should) ever be available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dth Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Hello William, A possible workaround: Sounds like you might have some server space somewhere. So you can upload the font to a directory on your server and linke to it in the pdf document. The reader can then Ctrl+click on the link to download the (font) file. Dave William Overington 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Overington Posted January 4, 2019 Author Share Posted January 4, 2019 Thank you. > Sounds like you might have some server space somewhere. Yes I do. I am about to provide a link to it in another thread. The thread is as follows. Copying text out of a PDF document when the font has OpenType ligature capability William Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 We do sometimes attach extra files to PDF documents. Acrobat can do it. Personally I feel it is much too easy to miss those attachments (as they show only in special sidebar) and it is better to have them presented as links either in PDF or the main PDF loading page. William Overington 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Overington Posted January 4, 2019 Author Share Posted January 4, 2019 Well, it could be an option that an end use could use or not use as he or she chooses. An author could draw attention to the presence of the attachment if he or she so chooses. William Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Overington Posted January 7, 2019 Author Share Posted January 7, 2019 On 1/4/2019 at 4:09 PM, MikeW said: And I sincerely doubt this capability will (or even should) ever be available. > And I sincerely doubt this capability will ... ever be available. Well, why please? Affinity Publisher is already showing itself to be a top class product with support for all of the Universal Character Set (ISO/IEC 10646 / Unicode) and having the facility for a user to copy from a PDF where glyph substitution of ligatures has been used and get the underlying plain text pasted into WordPad, so why do you doubt that Affinity Publisher will ever have the capability to produce a PDF that can carry an attachment within it > And I sincerely doubt this capability will (or even should) ever be available. Why do you consider that this capability should not be made available? Affinity Publisher is a top class product. I opine that it should not have restrictions needlessly placed upon the capabilities that it can have. William Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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