Anyone know what these little white shapes are?

[hiviz]

In the smaller text, I'm seeing these little white shapes at the character connection points after exporting to pdf. Don't see this in xdp and the shapes disappear if I scroll in.

Bahnschrift font (Google font)
Xara Designer Pro X 19.0.1
exported to pdf v1.5

[ernie-f]

Hi @hiviz, this is due to the font. The "Bahnschrift" has been created from objects and has not been assembled as a path.
If you set the wireframe view in Xara, you can see that. Here is a screen shot from Xara and from Fontcreator Professional for clarification.



The PDF should be printable, if not or you don't like the view you have two options:
1. take another font
2. Convert the font into objects and connect each letter into one path

[handrawn]

following on from ernie:

I did a quick print - looks ok

also these artifacts do not appear when viewing in affinity designer [beta], so it may be some programs cope with this better than others...

[ernie-f]

Hi @handrawn mein Freund,

nope in Affinity Designer the same as in Xara. Put on the wireframw view and you got this:

[handrawn]

sorry ernie - I did not express myself well

what I really meant was that design programs like xara and affinity do not show the gaps in rendered view, whereas acrobat reader for example does

I accept you can see the font construction in wireframe view, thanks for the explanation

[ernie-f]

Yes handrawn I understand what you mean.
Acrobat Reader and Acorbat Pro has always had problems displaying PDFs correctly.
Other PDF viewers like Sumatra PDF shows the PDF correctly.



For someone who doesn't have to work with printing industry standards like I do, you might not need Acrobat Pro either.