Nearly perfect opening of a complex PDF

[ueliraz]

Windows 10, 32 GB ram, Beta Af-Publisher 1.7.0.238

This morning, I opened many PDFs in Af-Publisher and was astonished, how good these files looked and how bad my own. So I started to make experiments.

I found out that the import of PDFs is nearly perfect if the texts contain no hyphenation and are all aligned to the left.

I have an example out of Microsoft Publisher 2006 in the original layout and now adapted as mentioned, as well. So if you not only have a PDF to convert but also the software that produced it, you can continue working with the PDF in Af-Publisher without big problems.

Bad opening/import of the originally produced pdf: original.afpub

Nearly perfect opening/import of the reduced pdf: fliesstext.afpub

[ueliraz]

You probably dont't see the difference at first sight.

There's no posssibility to work with the original pdf: wrong box sizes and many little blue poisoned characters you cannot delete.

 

Normal text to edit in AfPublisher if the original text is reduced.

[John Rostron]

It looks like the little blue poisoned characters are where there are soft returns in the text. Do these appear in the final version (exported pdf or print)?

John

[ueliraz]

There are correct little blue ones (soft return), and many many wrong ones, if the imported pdf was made with texts hyphenated and justified (not aligned to the left).

[Gabe]

Hi both,

Sorry for the delayed reply. 

Can you please attach the source PDF ?

Thanks,

Gabe. 

[ueliraz]

Here the source PDF:

AmRande-MS-Publisher.pdf

Thank you!

Ueli

[Gabe]

I've checked it in the latest Publisher beta and now it opens fine. Can you please confirm if it's fine for you so we can close the ticket?

[ueliraz]

I am sorry Sir, but it's the same problem as in earlier versions.

Here two passages you cannot correct inside the Affinity Publisher without access to the software that created the PDF (the PDF itself may be too complex).

 

We still have to follow the process (the workaround) I described on September 24, 2018:

This is not bad, although not exactly a successful import of PDFs we like to create.

Best wishes, Ueli.

[Gabe]

Thanks. I will log this with our developers.