herrbork Posted July 2, 2019 Share Posted July 2, 2019 Hi Tried opening a pdf in Affinity. Needed to replace missing font so did so. However in so doing, it deletes all the spaces between words. Tried with multiple different replacement fonts. Is there a fix for this that doesn't entail adding the spaces manually across the entire document or getting the original font (not possible)? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 Hi herrbork, Welcome to the forums I'm very sorry to hear this, it isn't a universal issue with PDF import so I can only imagine it is related to the font file used originally. Could you please provide a copy of the PDF so I can look into this here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielv6987 Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 Hi, I'm currently running into the same issue. Has there been any updates a fix or tool to help? Thank you, Daniel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 Hi @danielv6987, Welcome to the forums! As confirmed above, On 7/3/2019 at 10:50 AM, Dan C said: it isn't a universal issue with PDF import so I can only imagine it is related to the font file used originally. As this hasn't been reported elsewhere, or replicated by another user, this issue has not been logged with our developers and no changes have been made in this regard. As requested above, could you please provide a copy of the PDF you're referring to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lieke Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 Hi :-) I'm new to affinity publisher, but I just came across a similar problem. I opened a PDF in affinity and all the spaces were gone. When I opened a previous version in a .afpub version it was fine... I updated the document. Then my boss asked me to change the font and when I changed the font all the spaces were gone.... Thank you for your help!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 Welcome to the Affinity forums @Lieke! I assume a font problem, means that the used font of the PDF is missing on your computer. Could you please upload the original PDF and make a screenshot of the output in APu please? Or if confident ask a moderator for a private upload link, as they might be interested as well in this document. Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 13 minutes ago, Lieke said: When I opened a previous version in a .afpub version it was fine... I updated the document. Then my boss asked me to change the font and when I changed the font all the spaces were gone.... What was the original font, and what did you change it to? Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom_321423 Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 Hey guys, having the same problem since quite a while. Seems like all academic papers (exams, publications, etc..) have this problem for me. Usually these papers are created with LaTeX. Maybe that's a clue to the problem? The upload button does not work for me here. Maybe 'cause I'm not signed in. But one of the fonts is CMBX10 (the others have similar names, like CMEX10, CMMI10, ... and of course with other numbers than 10 as well) Would be cool if you had any ideas how to tackle this issue. Cheers, Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 1 hour ago, Tom_321423 said: Hey guys, having the same problem since quite a while. Seems like all academic papers (exams, publications, etc..) have this problem for me. Usually these papers are created with LaTeX. Maybe that's a clue to the problem? The upload button does not work for me here. Maybe 'cause I'm not signed in. But one of the fonts is CMBX10 (the others have similar names, like CMEX10, CMMI10, ... and of course with other numbers than 10 as well) Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. I think we would need to see a PDF with the problem. You might try attaching one to a new post now that you've successfully posted. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 Hi and welcome to the forums @Tom_321423, LaTex apparently ships with fonts. Also I would think some of those are designed for academia and or the sciences. You have to wait a day or so and make a certain number of posts before you can post images to the forums. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom_321423 Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 (edited) Hello Walt, yes, now I can. Here are two examples I could not open without losing the spaces... (Edit: Hello Bruce, thanks for the info! Luckily, uploading pdfs seems to work.) (Edit: as for the fonts: I personally do not need to preserve the original Fonts.. in my case, I'd be totally happy if I could just replace it with another font.. or, if I'm at least able to open it as uneditable images, but the only way I found to do this way by manually adding every page... maybe I'm missing something here?) TERGM_Hanneke (1).pdf exercise2.pdf Edited September 9, 2021 by Tom_321423 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 10 minutes ago, Tom_321423 said: Here are two examples I could not open without losing the spaces... About what missing spaces are you talking about? Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom_321423 Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 This is really weird... (using Windows 10, too) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom_321423 Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 Sorry, my apologies! I was one version behind the last update. As you could not reproduce the issue with the same PDF I made sure we got the same version. Now it works! Really sorry for wasting your time on this one! As the last couple versions all had this issue, I did not consider it to be fixed just like that all of a sudden. Good work! Dan C and Patrick Connor 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted September 9, 2021 Staff Share Posted September 9, 2021 @Tom_321423 I can create the same results in you using older version, thanks for coming back to us. To all readers, It is always helpful to state which application, what version and what operating system you are using as each can have a significant effect Alfred 1 Quote Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wosven Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 There was a thread about a similar problem days ago, but I hadn't the time to search it yet... Ha ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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