[Variable Fonts]

I want to use fonts downloaded from google fonts, and they download as a variable font ttf. So, without this feature, I'm restricted in design options. They do correctly load in kind of, in so far as the list of weights is the same length as the weights in the family, but one weight takes place for every single one. I'd consider this a bug. I see the topic goes back two years.

In absence of the feature, can anybody recommend solutions to extract the individual weights from the ttf as a workaround?

[Variable Weight Fonts from Google Not Parsed]

See top left, when installing a ttf file of variable weights from Google, they are not parsed correctly.

Bitter-VariableFont_wght.ttf

[Fonts Won't Load Until Booting Up Adobe Creative Cloud]

 

This is what I get currently. Yeah that's not showing in notepad for sure, although MS Word is able to incorporate the Adobe Fonts which is nice to know.. Anyway, at least it's only by opening Adobe CC that I avoid it. The initial help topics are for deleting font caches. I can't see anything which kind of 'localises' them for offline use per se.

Anyhow, it's nice they can be picked up at all. FWIW I'm really enjoying Publisher and so glad to have made the move away from Indesign, as an occasional user.

[Fonts Won't Load Until Booting Up Adobe Creative Cloud]

Thanks for the welcome Gabe.

Correct, they're managed through CC. Hmm. What I'm saying is because I don't have Adobe CC loaded on startup (no thanks to any such bloatware) Serif doesn't pick up that I 'have' these fonts until it's run. It's a weird one as I don't really know how Adobe Fonts / Typekit whatever you want to call it works in terms of 'ownership'. I'm surprised Publisher was allowed to access them at all in the first place to be fair.

Does that make more sense? I don't think it's a question for Adobe. Because like I say, Publisher knows I 'own' / 'posess' the fonts once Adobe CC is booted up. 

[Fonts Won't Load Until Booting Up Adobe Creative Cloud]

Hi,

 

I have Adobe Photoshop as a single app, so I get adobe fonts. What I'm finding in publisher is that any adobe fonts won't load until I intentionally boot up Adobe Creative Cloud.

 

Is this a known problem? I can try and show an example to duplicate if needed.

 

Thanks,

 

From a recent Publisher buyer (buying one last month of indesign just to transfer work, then I'm done with it.)

[Screen Mode in Affinity Publisher]

Lot's of votes for a read mode / full screen presentation mode like InDesign, but I don't see anything still? So we have to present with toolbars? (Plus clunkily scroll through our pages rather than arrow through, for example. Would save the step of exporting, and give a clutter free proofing mode.