ueliraz 0 Posted February 11 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ueliraz 0 Posted February 11 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
John Rostron 408 Posted February 11 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 Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.6.5.123 and Designer 1.6.5.123, (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ueliraz 0 Posted February 11 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). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GabrielM 606 Posted March 22 Hi both, Sorry for the delayed reply. Can you please attach the source PDF ? Thanks, Gabe. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ueliraz 0 Posted March 22 Here the source PDF: AmRande-MS-Publisher.pdf Thank you! Ueli Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GabrielM 606 Posted March 22 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? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ueliraz 0 Posted March 22 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GabrielM 606 Posted March 25 Thanks. I will log this with our developers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
