William Overington

Hi Lensman
What is the name of the font please?
Could you possibly tell us, step by step, what you do when you are trying to change the font in which your text is displayed please?
Could you say what language the text is in please?
William
 

Which particular font do you talk about? Can you zip one of them and attach it here?
(Of course Designer supports TrueTypes)

Publisher 1.7.0.238.
It would be useful to a lot of users if the "Special characters and glyphs" page of the Help could give:
* what each character looks like (if possible);
* a short explanation of what it does, or what it can/should be used for;
* a good visual example of where it has been used.
Some characters are fairly self-explanatory - "Page Number", "Copyright", etc. - but some, such as (but not limited to) "Soft Hyphen", "Sixth Space", "Zero-Width Non-Joiner" and "Punctuation Space" are meaningless to people without a good DTP/printing background.
I'm sure there are lots of explanations around the web but it would be nice if users didn't have to search for them.
Obviously the Help isn't finished yet, but it would be a shame if this sort of useful information was omitted.

No, that fill came in as part of the Hyperlink style that I chose from the Insert Hyperlink dialog.

I'm not sure whether this is a bug or intended behavior, so I'll start here.
I'm playing around with the new hyperlink implementation in 1.7.0.238 on Windows. First, thanks for getting this new feature implemented so quickly. I'm sure it will please those of us who have missed it.
I did these steps in a new document:
Created a few pages. On one page I drew a Text Frame and added some text without specifying any style information in the Context menubar. I repeated that on another page. I selected some text in one of the frames, and marked it as an anchor (Text > Interactive > Insert Anchor). I selected some text in the other frame, and marked it as an "anchor" hyperlink to the text in step 3 (Text > Interactive > Insert Hyperlink), and in the dialog left the Character Style at the default of Hyperlink. All of the above worked as I expected.
I then created another Text Frame, typed some text, and it came out in the Hyperlink style, in blue. The default style for my new Text Frame was now Hyperlink, and the default fill was blue.
From a usability perspective, I don't think that marking something as a hyperlink should change the default settings for future text or text frames.

They do indeed. Firenze was distributed with DPX8, but for Frankenstein and Sea Monster you need to go much further back: both of the latter were on the DrawPlus 7 (not X7!) Design CD, an optional item including many fonts and other material which were not included on the main Program CD.
Fonts included on the DP7 Design CD

Well, the fonts are worth keeping, anyway (although I’ve kept most of my discs, too).
The last few versions of PagePlus came with exactly the same set of 123 fonts.

Hi William,
Thank you for asking. There are currently no plans to bundle any fonts with Affinity Publisher at initial launch.

The SVG fonts I'm referring to are also stored in an OpenType font, and doing so has been documented in the OpenType standard, so they are also a form of OpenType color font.
From what I am seeing QuarkXPress seems to be about the only major program out there that supports the Micro$oft CPAL/COLR fonts (other than web browsers).  SVG color fonts are also a W3C standard, seem to be much more common, and are the only color font format natively supported on both MacOS and Windows, along with iOS.
https://www.colorfonts.wtf

I'm afraid this isn't a priority for us at the moment. The hard part is drawing to the screen, because we have our own text engine. We'd need to write code to discover what colours the font was using.

They do. Just visit the Serif Affinity Store, sign in, and you can download the applications you've purchased, and see your product keys.

I think you are making that out to be more complicated than it needs to be.  To provide color fonts in a PDF format that does not support them would require converting to curves before producing the PDF.

Thank you for your reply.
I tried to add one of those Thanks logos to your post, but I was told,
Sorry, you cannot add any more reactions today.
And it was just 4 minutes after midnight!
Anyway, Thank you.
William
 
 

Exactly that.  An application that runs on some computer platform (or so-called "mobile devices") that is a self-contained representation of an Affinity Publisher document or a set of documents: for example, a digital magazine might use such an app that could download different editions of the magazine and display them.  A potential variation would be to create a "choose your own adventure" type story by limiting page navigation to links on the individual pages of the document.
 
Think of a web browser, minus the user interface, that is a scrollable box on a page of a document.  Much like you can embed a picture or video file (PDF), you could embed a web browser that would start off at the page that was linked to.

Hi William
I think they do now.
Personally I always save the latest version of downloaded software to an external harddrive. I use cloud based backup software. 
Just buy a simple USB key for the backup if you need a more simple setup than me

I wouldn't hold my breath about seeing this in 1.7.0, but some flavor of it does seem like a good idea and I wouldn't be too surprised to see this in some version after that.
If Publisher gets to the point of producing apps directly from its documents then an embedded web view from a link would be another variant to consider.

Sigh... please search the forum, there must be a million threads discussing this by now.

Please allow URLs (as well as IMAGES and TEXT FRAMES, used as BANNERS for example, if possible) to be active hyperlinks in texts by adding this feature to the RIGHT-CLICK mouse menu. Thank you!

Well, I'll drop you a private note.
William
 

I very much doubt it, William.
I don’t recall ever having seen an EULA like that. In general if you are permitted to embed a font in a PDF file, it’s up to you how you subsequently publish or distribute that PDF. Where there is a separate webfont licence, it’s intended to cover use of the font directly in web pages (i.e. not in embedded PDFs or Word documents).

If one considers CorelDraw to be a professional application (as I do) then this is not entirely true. Up until CS6, Adobe also included fonts, fewer of them in CS6 versus previous versions (same with templates. Last version that included templates was CS4 if I recall). Xara products still include a few, but is also hooked into Google fonts.
But I agree. Between Google fonts (which typically include a use for everything type of license), FontSquirrel and fonts free fonts available from a multitude of other sites (usually via signing up for their newsletters), there is a plethora of fonts available.
As a matter of course, I never install the free fonts any application ships. If a client specs a font I do not have, I buy it.

Hi William,
No, Affinity apps are only available as downloadable software. No retail/physical versions planned.

Yes, if you burn it to one, but not otherwise.

I would not expect this, it is not a common practice for a professional application.
There are a number of good fonts available under the Open Font License which could be freely used, and many of these can be found on fonts.google.com among other places (not all fonts on that site are OFL but many are).
To help with installing the fonts on that site there are a few font managers around that will do that and update them automatically - I am using FontBase for example.
 
Check out this thread also:
 
Personally I have found Fira Sans to be one that I particularly like for body text.  A few others on my favorites list right now are Cinzel Decorative, Dancing Script, Great Vibes, Lato, Space Mono, and Taviraj..
 

Hi William,
 
Polish? No :) . The book was written in Italian in the Mellel word processor on a Mac. Font Cambria. From there I exported as a Pdf. In Mellel and the PDF the letter combination is as it should be f + i. When I open the PDF in AP I get the stroked L and an i with a tracking of -237 0/00 (so they are overlapping in AP. When I activate unicode I get EG+0151 in stead of the stroked L. Seems to me the translation goes wrong from pdf to AP.