Tomeric Posted August 12, 2019 Share Posted August 12, 2019 AD cannot interpret fonts embedded in PDFs and asks for missing fonts during each import... Ok, that's not great, but is there a work-around? E. g. an App (other than Illustrator :) or Online-service that can convert typo to curves? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seneca Posted August 12, 2019 Share Posted August 12, 2019 2 minutes ago, Tomeric said: AD cannot interpret fonts embedded in PDFs and asks for missing fonts during each import... Ok, that's not great, but is there a work-around? E. g. an App (other than Illustrator :) or Online-service that can convert typo to curves? Well, on PDF export you can instruct AD to have all fonts converted to curves. Just click on More button at the bottom of the dialog and then select Embed Fonts pop-up menu and select Text as Curves. Is this what are you looking for? Quote 2017 27” iMac 4.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 • Radeon Pr 580 8GB • 64GB • Ventura 13.6.4. iPad Pro (10.5-inch) • 256GB • Version 16.4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted August 12, 2019 Share Posted August 12, 2019 Hi Tomeric Unfortunately there's no option like this in Affinity currently, when importing a PDF with missing fonts we will always attempt to replace them, rather than converting them to curves. This has been requested on our forums previously and is an option we may add in the future. Unfortunately I don't personally know of any third party software that can achieve this, but other forum users may know more than I! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomeric Posted August 12, 2019 Author Share Posted August 12, 2019 Hi Seneca, nope, I meant PDFs I get from clients. Today that was a PDF with a logo that was not converted to curves... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted August 12, 2019 Share Posted August 12, 2019 2 minutes ago, Dan C said: ...Unfortunately I don't personally know of any third party software that can achieve this, but other forum users may know more than I! 14 minutes ago, Tomeric said: AD cannot interpret fonts embedded in PDFs and asks for missing fonts during each import... Ok, that's not great, but is there a work-around? E. g. an App (other than Illustrator :) or Online-service that can convert typo to curves? My only experience is with pdfToolbox and Acrobat, for the same reason (client-supplied PDFs). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wosven Posted August 12, 2019 Share Posted August 12, 2019 Hi, You can do this importing your PDF in inkScape and choosing "poppler" in the options: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted August 12, 2019 Share Posted August 12, 2019 You can also open PDF in Preview and print it to .ps, which has text as curves as result. That opens fine in Designer. Tomeric 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted August 12, 2019 Share Posted August 12, 2019 15 minutes ago, Fixx said: You can also open PDF in Preview and print it to .ps, which has text as curves as result. That opens fine in Designer. Postscript removes all color management if that is of importance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomeric Posted August 13, 2019 Author Share Posted August 13, 2019 "Printing to PS" seems to be the best work-around for me. Thanks to all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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