twaltzing Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Hi, I am trying to place some PDF files. They are consistently coming out garbled or with text missing somewhat randomly, but it seems this happens only when the PDF was produced by Preview on my Mac. When I place PDF files with the same content that were produced using a PHP program and various PHP libraries, they appear accurately. This is a major issue as I have literally hundreds of these PDFs that worked fine with Ado$e products and am now trying to convert everything to Affinity. Screenshot shows correct PDF text and the version that appears when dragged in. Yes, the font is installed on the computer. Any ideas for how to work around this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted October 10, 2019 Staff Share Posted October 10, 2019 Hi twaltzing, Welcome to the forums Sorry to see you're having trouble, could you please provide a copy of this PDF to the following link so I can investigate this further? If this PDF uses a non Mac standard font please upload this here also - https://www.dropbox.com/request/iiXtJXjeMiLhtPjiQuPy Many thanks in advance! Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twaltzing Posted October 10, 2019 Author Share Posted October 10, 2019 Thank you, I've uploaded it. Filename is 1.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted October 11, 2019 Staff Share Posted October 11, 2019 Thanks for your file, I can replicate this issue here and therefore I'm logging this with our developers as a bug. On 10/9/2019 at 10:30 PM, twaltzing said: it seems this happens only when the PDF was produced by Preview on my Mac. When I place PDF files with the same content that were produced using a PHP program and various PHP libraries, they appear accurately. Can you expand on your workflow here? As far as I'm aware Preview doesn't have the capability to create PDf files from scratch - are you loading a file in Preview then exporting it as a PDF? If so, what format is this file? Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyTankard Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 PDFs placed into Publisher (and other Affinity apps) ignore any OpenType features applied to the text in the PDF. So if the PDF contains OpenType Small Caps feature or variant Figure styling or Swashes etc. then these are ignored and the text reverts to the underlying core text. Not good. Please can this be fixed and placed PDFs are fully respected. Perhaps there is an option to remain as PDF or open as layered file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyTankard Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 Forgot to say that this occurs when the exact same font file is loaded and available. The font should be picked up and used in full. If the PDF doesn't hold the OT styling info, then there needs to be an option to place the PDF as itself, not as an 'open file' – Text is resolution independent, not rasterised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catshill Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 There are a number of threads and posts on the subject of Affinity being unable to pass through fonts. My workarounds are to run the PDF through the Microsoft PDF creator or use the PDF>PNG conversion tool such as https://www.freepdfsolutions.com or https://www.weenysoft.com Far from ideal though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twaltzing Posted November 12, 2019 Author Share Posted November 12, 2019 On 10/11/2019 at 7:32 AM, Dan C said: Thanks for your file, I can replicate this issue here and therefore I'm logging this with our developers as a bug. Can you expand on your workflow here? As far as I'm aware Preview doesn't have the capability to create PDf files from scratch - are you loading a file in Preview then exporting it as a PDF? If so, what format is this file? The PDF files were produced using a PHP script. I then opened them in Preview and saved as Adobe PDF (because I was using InDesign at that point, and InDesign wouldn't recognize the PDFs produced by the PHP script -- the opposite of this issue.) Dan C 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twaltzing Posted December 10, 2019 Author Share Posted December 10, 2019 It's been a couple of months -- any progress on this bug? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted December 10, 2019 Staff Share Posted December 10, 2019 Hi twaltzing, Welcome to Affinity Forums No progress yet, sorry. I've bumped the report/log to bring this up to devs attention again. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyTankard Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 I presume 1.8 is in beta so I'd hope this at least is in consideration to be sorted. I'm pumping Publisher as much as I can and PDF capability is up there to be addressed. (along with quick and easy batch developing of RAW files in Photo – as PhotoShop does!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyTankard Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 No luck in 1.8. Placing PDFs in Publisher still removes all OpenType font styling. Please add the functionality to place a PDF as a 'locked file' so its text resolution independent (not rasterised) and retains all the OpenType styling of the original PDF. An obvious requirement is when a PDF contains a Passcode of Alphanumerical where the zeros have been styled with OT feature 'Slashed Zero' to avoid confusion with capital O or lowercase o. Placing the PDF example in a Publisher file currently changes the slashed zero to the standard zero rendering the example of the placed PDF doc useless. I know I can open the PDF and save it as 300 dpi page and place this, but this is a bit 'backward' InDesign allows this for years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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