Sascha Leib

Just to give my +1 to this topic: I have just encountered the problem specifically with Bahnschrift (which is a Windows standard font, by the way!) that was chosen for a project, and I can easily use that in multiple applications, including MS Office, Paint.Net, Inkscape, etc. But I can not use it in Affinity Designer 2, because whatever I chose from the font menu, I always only get the standard cut, and can't select any of the other variants. Now, I understand that this font has certain features that are not supported in Affinity – like that you can adjust parameters like weight very flexibly, ideally with a slider control. That's a great "nice to have", but in most cases, a more simplified approach would already be a big step forward to the situation that we have now. I see that Designer seems to recognize that there are multiple default variations available from the fonts list - and it shows them, but without the proper name, and selecting any of these always sets only the default font variant. In other words: it is completely broken and not usable in the way it is now. To me it seems as if Serif is not implementing a simple solution because they hope to deliver a perfect one at some point in the future - but this is not moving forward since many years, so maybe a simple, imperfect solution that could be rolled out in a reasonable time would probably be a better one. As for me, I am now using Inkscape to insert this font into drawings, and then I convert all text to paths. And that is not actually a good workflow 😞 Edit: Sorry, I just noticed that this is the v1 forum, and there is already a new discussion on this topic in the v2 forum. Apparently I can't delete my post, so I just leave this here...

Thanks everybody for the good replies. Indeed, I must have missed this option because it was at a rather unexpected place. Having said that, I have to admit that the options and control over the alignment far exceed my expectations. Great job! May I, however, still recommend to move this to the "Paragraph" options? The way it works it is much more related to hyphenation and paragraph alignment than to how characters are displayed. Other than that – perfect! (at least until I find time to test this feature a bit more thoroughly... ) Cheers /sascha

Hello all, I've only just downloaded Publisher Beta and my first impression of it is very good, indeed. Keep up the good work! :-) The first thing I've noticed however is that I can't find an option for hanging punctuation. I don't know if it doesn't exist (in which case it should really be added) or if it's just too hidden (so it should probably be easier to find ;-) For those who don't know it: what happens in "hanging punctuation" is that, e.g. a line of justified or right-aligned text that has a punctuation in the end, this punctuation mark would be moved a bit further to the right than the letters of other lines, so that the alignment is more visually even. Admittedly, that's a "pro" feature and not everybody would know how to use it, but as the saying goes: many trifles make perfection. Best regards /sascha