RM f/g Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 An ‘ink trap’, that little wedge. udrabo 1 Quote Macbook Pro mid 2015, 16 GB, double barrel: MacOS Mojave + Affinity 1 (+ Adobe’s CS6)/ MacOS Monterey + Affinity 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muelli75 Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 as udrabo mentioned, converting fonts to curves is no good idea. also in colormangement and in trapping fonts are handled in most RIPs somehow different than vectorelements. udrabo 1 Quote Regards, Martin iMac 27", 2017/Big Sur 11.2.2 MacMini M1/BigSur 11.2.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muelli75 Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 hopefully serfi will also give a choice for placing PSD-Files with fonts in it. at this time we cant import PSD-Files without substituting missing fonts :-( udrabo 1 Quote Regards, Martin iMac 27", 2017/Big Sur 11.2.2 MacMini M1/BigSur 11.2.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac_heibu Posted June 30, 2019 Share Posted June 30, 2019 When text is converted to curves, the so called „hinting“ isn‘t preserved. „Hinting“ is a font intern, slight modification of the outlines, according to their output resolution. In other words: Printing in lower resolution produces a slightly different font appearance compared to higher resolution outputs. This is quite important for print results on laser printers or digital printing machines, which normally work with much lower resolution as offset machines do. Therefore converting fonts to outline normally isn‘t a recommendable option. Further information: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_hinting muelli75 and udrabo 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted June 30, 2019 Share Posted June 30, 2019 20 hours ago, mac_heibu said: Therefore converting fonts to outline normally isn‘t a recommendable option. It is still way better than rasterising them to pixels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac_heibu Posted June 30, 2019 Share Posted June 30, 2019 Both should definitely be avoided. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyTankard Posted June 30, 2019 Share Posted June 30, 2019 This really needs sorting out. I'm trying to place a PDF supplied by a client into a Publisher file so I can annotate, make notes and suggestions etc. The placed PDF is just using a default font. SO I have to go and do this in InDesign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Move Along People Posted June 30, 2019 Share Posted June 30, 2019 Asking for the font from the client is also an option. muelli75 1 Quote Move Along people,nothing to see here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 2 hours ago, haakoo said: Asking for the font from the client is also an option. I would use Acrobat or another pdf editor capable of annotating a pdf. My last issue of a magazine had a typical number of places as adding up to about 80 different fonts. This is reason #17 why I cannot use Apub for work. Krustysimplex 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvrc_hvnry Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 @Affinity please make this possible its is essential as many said ... and is there an official statement about this problem? btw the app is still amazing ... i love the editing pdf feature too LG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicked Stepmother Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 I have two problems with importing PDFs. 1) Fonts are changed and often then the replacement font is too big for the space so the text is squashed. 2) Only part of the PDF is imported - text missing. I edit a Parish Mag with adverts so importing the ads is causing me a lot of problems. I didn't have this problem with Page Plus so why have you changed things??????? Annoying for me and my customers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 7 hours ago, Wicked Stepmother said: I edit a Parish Mag with adverts so importing the ads is causing me a lot of problems. I didn't have this problem with Page Plus so why have you changed things??????? Annoying for me and my customers. Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @Wicked Stepmother. If you didn’t have this problem with PagePlus, why have you changed things? Why not continue to use PP until such time as APub includes passthrough and any other features you need? mac_heibu 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StainX Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 Direct PDF placement is important for me, so yeah, would appreciate. Edit: wait, this is working already? Awesome! Edit2: but no stroke around linked objects? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpiuk Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 I'm running this as a trial and it's frustrating there's no feature for this so we have to use a workaround.. If your job is being printed in CMYK, lithographic web or digital, Open the pdf in preview and export as a high res Jpeg, then import this in. There is no loss in quality that a modern press will notice. This also eliminates any font issues, spot colours, layers etc. What you see is what will be printed, unlike a pdf. If we have to edit a file we then outline the font in Acrobat Pro before importing the pdf in.... annoying workaround MmeBezier 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicked Stepmother Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 On 8/22/2019 at 5:09 PM, Alfred said: Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @Wicked Stepmother. If you didn’t have this problem with PagePlus, why have you changed things? Why not continue to use PP until such time as APub includes passthrough and any other features you need? On 8/22/2019 at 5:09 PM, Alfred said: Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @Wicked Stepmother. If you didn’t have this problem with PagePlus, why have you changed things? Why not continue to use PP until such time as APub includes passthrough and any other features you need? Thanks for that very helpful response - NOT! I used the Beta version for a trial period and then when they put the new Affinity Publisher and photo and photo on sale I presumed the Beta version would be removed. I believed that it was superior to PP but I am still struggling to find the things I used in PP - just not as user friendly as PP. Very disappointed. Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MmeBezier Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 Hello everybody, I am new here and I started to use Affinity products right from the start, after they were released. With high hopes to substitute all Adobe applications, I also bought Affinity Publisher and I am now converting all my former InDesign files via PDF into Publisher files. Right now, I try to prepare a yearly magazine. In this magazine are customer PDFs (advertisements). Unfortunately, they are not placed as a picture but they are "destroyed" and missing fonts are replaced by Lucida Grande (those are also embedded house-fonts of the advertising companies, something, nobody has on the computer). The same happens, when I try to open these PDFs beforehand in Affinity Designer or Photo with the hope, to convert the whole text into curves or pixels. So, do I really need my old Adobe applications again as savour? How can I resolve the problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catshill Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 6 hours ago, MmeBezier said: Hello everybody, I am new here and I started to use Affinity products right from the start, after they were released. With high hopes to substitute all Adobe applications, I also bought Affinity Publisher and I am now converting all my former InDesign files via PDF into Publisher files. Right now, I try to prepare a yearly magazine. In this magazine are customer PDFs (advertisements). Unfortunately, they are not placed as a picture but they are "destroyed" and missing fonts are replaced by Lucida Grande (those are also embedded house-fonts of the advertising companies, something, nobody has on the computer). The same happens, when I try to open these PDFs beforehand in Affinity Designer or Photo with the hope, to convert the whole text into curves or pixels. So, do I really need my old Adobe applications again as savour? How can I resolve the problem? I convert pdfs sent to me using pdf2png. Other workarounds are posted on the forum but this issue causes me grief as well. MmeBezier 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 Apple's Preview can convert text to curves when you print to EPS, or you can save as TIF. MmeBezier 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catshill Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 A list of workarounds for this issue would be great. MmeBezier 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MmeBezier Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 Resolving this problem would be even greater. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RainerH Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 The post started in june 2019 - nearly one year ago - and today the problem still exists. No comment from serif in the hole chat. And that at a problem that occures several times a day in a publisher's job. I have solved the problem by converting the PDF into EPS by exporting it with Adobe Acrobat Pro DC (don'T know if Adobe Reader can do it so too). Seems Affinity has switched on the indicator light but by leaving the slipstream there is not enough power to pull ahead. Mostly I'm excited of the Affinity trio but sometimes I'm badly disappointed of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FRworld Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 Hello. This lack of proper PDF handling is also causing me a lot of problems. Please add the recognition of embedded PDF fonts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
udrabo Posted May 15, 2020 Author Share Posted May 15, 2020 There are a lot of things to do. I know Serif has to weigh what to do first. For me it is THE most important and essential functionality I need. Please Serif, tell us if and when we can expect pdf passthrough. muelli75 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvrc_hvnry Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 I have been waiting for this for a year! Please implement it... Dont get me wrong you are amazing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeDC Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 We have 11 licenses of the full Adobe Creative Cloud that we planned to start converting to the Affinity Suite once Publisher was released. The PDF issue makes it a non-contender that won't even be considered until you can place a PDF into Publisher without having to have the fonts installed locally. There isn't one work around in this thread that would even be considered. Opening in Apple Preview and saving as a jpeg? Really? Not a chance in the world. Preview can't even display a PDF correctly if it has live transparency in it. Converting text to curves/outlines. Not in this lifetime. If you convert a PDF to an image your type is not going to ever be right even if you make the image at the output resolution of 2400 dpi. First you are going to have a huge file size. Also the text will still not look as sharp as an actual text object once converting it to an image with anti-aliasing. The folks at Affinity are losing a huge segment of the print world by releasing this product with this behavior. Unfortunately we're going to have to renew again with Adobe for another year next month when our current subscription ends. Hopefully Affinity can fix this before this time next year when our contract comes due again. Other than this one issue we really liked the Affinity apps. Just a darn shame really. Krustysimplex, IllusionStudio, Fixx and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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