Jim_A Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 PDFs created by InDesign which contain bulleted lists display incorrectly when imported into Publisher. The InDesign CS5 bullet list was set as a paragraph style and used a specific glyph which had a character style applied. I tried exporting as PDFX-1(2001), PDFX-4(2008) and High Quality Print with the same results. In the screenshots below, the top one shows the original Indesign Document and the one below shows the exported PDF placed in Publisher. [ macos 12.6 Monterey; Memory: 16GB; Graphics: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 1536 MB; Processor: 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 Looks like, because a PDF has no sense of paragraph/character styles, that APub is both included the static bullet character and using a reconstructed p.style/c.style. That said, I cannot immediately replicate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim_A Posted April 2, 2019 Author Share Posted April 2, 2019 On further testing, it seems to depend on the Text After character used in the InDesign style. A space doesn't seem to cause problems, but tabs, em space, en space all cause formatting issues. [ macos 12.6 Monterey; Memory: 16GB; Graphics: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 1536 MB; Processor: 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 4 minutes ago, Jim_A said: On further testing, it seems to depend on the Text After character used in the InDesign style. A space doesn't seem to cause problems, but tabs, em space, en space all cause formatting issues. I tried tabs and that resulted in expected, single bullet, behavior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim_A Posted April 2, 2019 Author Share Posted April 2, 2019 I'm having trouble reproducing it myself. It could be a font problem with the original InDesign document which used Kozuka Gothic Pro. If I change the font, the problem disappears. My system is showing Kozuka Gothic Pr6N in addition to Kozuka Gothic Pro, so this could be a problem with the fonts on this machine. Could someone try importing the attached PDF into a Publisher document to see if it displays double bullets (as it does on my system). If I open the PDF in a PDF viewer, it appears fine. list-export-kozuka-pro.pdf [ macos 12.6 Monterey; Memory: 16GB; Graphics: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 1536 MB; Processor: 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim_A Posted April 3, 2019 Author Share Posted April 3, 2019 On further investigation, this problem only seems to appear with certain fonts. So far, I have identified: Kozuka Gothic Pro Kozuka Gothic Pr6N Adobe Heiti Std Heiti TC Kozuka Mincho Pro I think many of these were installed with Adobe Creative Suite CS5. There may be others, but I haven't had time to check. ------ In addition, if the InDesign-exported PDF is opened in Preview and re-exported as a PDF, it appears fine in Publisher. (I see from other threads that PDF passthrough is not a simple task.)https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/67957-why-cant-a-pdf-just-be-placed-without-option-to-edit/& [ macos 12.6 Monterey; Memory: 16GB; Graphics: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 1536 MB; Processor: 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted April 9, 2019 Staff Share Posted April 9, 2019 Hi both, Sorry for the delayed reply. I replicated it here and logged it with our developers. Thanks, Gabe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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