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Rene Verkaart reacted to a post in a topic: System fonts folder to export and test typefaces
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Hello! I am a type designer, and I am testing an in-development typeface in Affinity Designer 1.10 (both Windows 10 and macOS Big Sur). I noticed that, despite selecting the correct typographical options, there were issues with the way Designer was implementing the typeface's contextual alternates, as shown in the photo below. In the example shown, the font is programmed to use an alternate 'E' when it is followed by two lowercase 's' glyphs. The reason for this is so that it can properly connect to the 'ss' ligature. In this case, the alternate 'E' used before 'ss' is from stylistic set 01, and I made sure no stylistic sets were enabled so it wouldn't interfere with the contextual alternate code. However, in Affinity Designer, the program puts the alternate 'E' in front of just a single 's', rather than only in front of 'ss'. This causes a strange collision because those glyphs aren't meant to be used together. It's like Designer sees the OpenType code is asking for an alternate 's' after 'E' and stops reading any further. So the app is acting like this: sub E' s by E.ss01; when the font is actually programmed as: sub E' s s by E.ss01; The bug has been confirmed by another user who wasn't using my typeface, and the typeface works correctly in other apps – so as far as I can tell, this is a bug with Designer's typography system (and probably the other Affinity apps).
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I'm running into this and similar issues with a dual-language Japanese/English booklet in Publisher. I'm getting unnecessary large spaces after dakuten and handakuten marks, which are very common (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakuten_and_handakuten). I have to start the project over in InDesign, sadly, as I'm out of time and options. I'd much rather use Publisher!
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A_B_C reacted to a post in a topic: Publisher's Splash Screen
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Guyon reacted to a post in a topic: Publisher's Splash Screen
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ctrayne reacted to a post in a topic: Affinity Designer for MacOS - 1.7.0
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Publisher's Splash Screen
ctrayne replied to Petar Petrenko's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
I like that the Affinity screens are made in-house and are relatively clean. The community art used by Adobe on their splash screens is distracting. -
Small side note: it turns out that RoboFont can do sideloading with Affinity Designer quite well. I just gave it a shot. More info: https://robofont.com/documentation/how-tos/using-test-install/ I typically use Glyphs for all my work, so this doesn't help me a ton, but Affinity handled this method really well and actually updated with the font changes right away (most other apps didn't seem to do so).
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ctrayne reacted to a post in a topic: sideload font
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Thanks for the reply! Sounds like it may not be something I should hold out for (in the near term at least), but I really appreciate your insight. Thanks for looking into it.
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I would still love to see this feature. Implementing this would allow me to stop using Illustrator and fully switch to Affinity Designer.
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unitof reacted to a post in a topic: Application/temporary font folder
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rad reacted to a post in a topic: sideload font
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ctrayne reacted to a post in a topic: Bigger toolbar icons for people with retina screens
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ctrayne reacted to a post in a topic: sideload font
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I asked about this back in 2015 and didn't get a response. This is the only thing that keeps me from dropping Adobe Illustrator. Unfortunately, I don't think it's going to happen.
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Hello! I am a font designer and I constantly use the Application font folder in Adobe Illustrator. The folder I'm referring to is cited here in the section "About Fonts": http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/fonts.html My workflow involves editing glyphs in my font editor, then exporting the font files to this Adobe font folder. This is important because I can test small changes in my fonts very quickly without needing to install and uninstall fonts to and from the system (which often requires a restart.) We're talking about hours and hours of time saved thanks to this folder. It's vital to my work. There are other benefits to this folder. Say you've purchased a new font and you're not sure if you're going to use it very much, or just want quickly to test it on a single project. You can drop the files in this folder and test it out in Illustrator without installing the font in your system. Is there a chance of seeing a similar feature in Affinity Designer? This feature is the only reason I still use Adobe Illustrator. Without it, though, I cannot fully make the switch to Designer. None of the competition offers this feature either. Thanks for your consideration.