Ajay Asodariya Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 I am using affinity design in my iPad , when I creat some document with text messages and export with pdf, after converting the documents I will not able to select the text from documents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted August 18, 2019 Staff Share Posted August 18, 2019 Are you using Artistic text or Frame Text and when exporting to PDF what is the Rasterise option set to? After exporting to PDF, are you wanting to open the file to edit the text if so, which app are you using to do this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ajay Asodariya Posted August 18, 2019 Author Share Posted August 18, 2019 I m using frame text and rasterise is unsupported properties , after exporting to PDF i just want to select the text from pdf but I cannot..i don’t want to edit the text just i want to select the text from pdf and copy that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ci2i Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 I’ve encountered this apparent bug as well. V1.7.2.6. When exporting to PDF, all text characters are converted to individual vector outlines, not editable text, regardless of export settings I’ve tried, or font used. Import of PDF text works fine. Have confirmed this using AD, PDF Expert, and Graphic, all on an iPad. I read previously in a post from Oct. 2018 that this is a bug not present in AD for Mac, only in AD for iPad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ajay Asodariya Posted August 20, 2019 Author Share Posted August 20, 2019 So please tell me who will resolve and ho can i get instant support for this because this is big mistake , however if I convert some documents in pdf it should be searchable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ci2i Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Here are the steps to easily reproduce this apparent bug: Create a new document in Affinity Designer for iPad Create a text frame and type something Export the document as a PDF, using the “PDF (for export)” preset Import this same document back into AD for iPad A couple screenshots are attached. In the “before” image, the text is text. In the “after” image, the individual text characters have been transformed into vector shapes by the export process. Would be happy if Affinity looked into this, as there are currently workflows where I have to avoid using Affinity Designer for iPad. There is no such problem performing these same steps on AD for Mac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted August 22, 2019 Staff Share Posted August 22, 2019 It's logged with the developers to look into further, but we don't have an eta on a fix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ci2i Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 I just saw that this exact same issue on ADi was reported about a year ago, so maybe this is just a +2 bump to hopefully get some priority on fixing it. I use a number of other vector drawing apps on the iPad for different tasks, Graphic, Concepts, Graphio, OmniGraffle. ADi is unique in its inability to export text to a PDF. Hoping there’s a quick simple fix, as others, including the Mac AD dev team, know how to do this. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/68884-adi-importingexporting-pdf-on-ipad-designer/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ci2i Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 Are other folks in the community consistently seeing this? (Exported text always being converted into curves in PDF’s, no matter the PDF export setting) Anyone have a good workaround? I've noticed that in preferences, there is a place to apparently load additional fonts; has anyone had luck exporting a PDF with editable text (vs. converted to curves text) by loading fonts into and using fonts from this area? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted March 16, 2020 Staff Share Posted March 16, 2020 This issue should now be resolved in the upcoming 1.8.2 build. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 @Sean P I can confirm that the photo beta gm is exporting PDF text correctly. I can open and edit exported PDF text in Documents/PDF Expert. Prior to gm version this was not possible. Sean P 1 Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted March 16, 2020 Staff Share Posted March 16, 2020 Wonderful! Thanks for the heads up - I did test it myself this morning and it was working as expected also! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ci2i Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 Awesome! I am not part of the Beta program, but I am looking forward to the update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ci2i Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 Thanks Serif/Affinity folks! I tested a released version of 1.8.2 which handled 2 of the 4 fonts I tried as desired. Just tested a released version of 1.8.3 and all 4 fonts exported as desired (as editable text vs being converted to curves). DM1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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