LFGabel Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 Greetings, I have run into a strange problem with regard to one of my fonts used in Publisher. For some reason which I can't explain, the smart quote characters (single and double) are being replaced upon export to PDF. The font in question is Zapf Humanist (all variants). To make sure it wasn't me screwing something up, I started a fresh Publisher document, added a text frame, and entered text, formatting for a half dozen fonts. Every font I tried looked as it should in the PDF export except Zapf Humanist. The odd thing is everything looks fine in the application (see image). I thought that maybe a font was corrupted, but to have the error happen across all font files seems strange and unlikely to me. Is this a bug or have I done something wrong? Any thoughts would be appreciated. With thanks, Lee Affinity Publisher 1.7.2Windows 10 HomeIntel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz16GB Memory2TB HDD / 128GB SSD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 (...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Pauls Posted September 27, 2019 Staff Share Posted September 27, 2019 If you can upload the font, a publisher doc and an exported PDF file here we can look into this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFGabel Posted September 27, 2019 Author Share Posted September 27, 2019 So I dug a little deeper and realized I had two versions of the ZapfHumanist font installed: One a True Type font from Corel (like Lagarto suggested) and one from a Bitstream font collection which identified as an Open Type font. I removed the Bitstream Open Type font, reloaded Publisher, and all is working as it should now. Pauls, I can upload the font, publisher doc and a PDF if you still require it. Just let me know. Thanks for the help, but sorry for wasting everyone's time. With thanks, Lee Pauls and Oval 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 (...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFGabel Posted September 27, 2019 Author Share Posted September 27, 2019 Thanks for that insightful response, Lagarto. Thinking back, I believe I did convert a bunch of Type 1 fonts to True Type/Open Type. It was the Bitstream collection I referred to previously. If I had been paying attention, I would have changed all their names to make them unique. I will file that tip away for later. I'm glad things resolved themselves, and most importantly, that it wasn't a fault with Publisher! With thanks, Lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.