aleale1 Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 Feature proposition for Font Manager: Implement Missing Fonts Auto-Activation Feature in the Affinity Font Manager. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 I haven't tested it but this looks like it might do what you want, assuming you are on a Mac: https://rightfontapp.com/blog/20181129-product-affinity-publisher-support It looks like they are planning on a Windoze version at some point, but not out yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aleale1 Posted February 23, 2020 Author Share Posted February 23, 2020 14 hours ago, fde101 said: I haven't tested it but this looks like it might do what you want Thanks for the good news. I am, unfortunately, on Windows and not planning to be Mac user, but anyway, you showed a light at the end of the tunnel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 2 minutes ago, aleale1 said: Thanks for the good news. I am, unfortunately, on Windows and not planning to be Mac user, but anyway, you showed a light at the end of the tunnel. There are other font manager programs for Windows, which may do what you want. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanPickup Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 I know it is not as good as a built in app but I use the free version of Main Type quite successfully for this https://www.high-logic.com/font-manager/maintype Quote Alan Pickup Windows 11 Home all Affinity suite of Apps PC and Gigabyte Laptop 16gb Ram and Nvidia GTX1660 Super on each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aleale1 Posted February 23, 2020 Author Share Posted February 23, 2020 5 minutes ago, AlanPickup said: I know it is not as good as a built in app but I use the free version of Main Type I guess a free version of Main Type does not support the auto-activation feature, but if it does, it is for Adobe products only. Wright? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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AlanPickup Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 Font base activates / deactivates fonts as you tick or untick them, not quite sure what you mean by automatic. I use it on windows 10 across two machines and keep my fonts in a folder in One Drive so I can use them on either machine. I do not have any adobe programs apart from acrobat reader Quote Alan Pickup Windows 11 Home all Affinity suite of Apps PC and Gigabyte Laptop 16gb Ram and Nvidia GTX1660 Super on each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 26 minutes ago, aleale1 said: I guess a free version of Main Type does not support the auto-activation feature, but if it does, it is for Adobe products only. Wright? Yes, it supports auto-activation, and works with the Affinity applications. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanPickup Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 Sorry should have said main type, I used to use fontbase, but prefer Main Type Quote Alan Pickup Windows 11 Home all Affinity suite of Apps PC and Gigabyte Laptop 16gb Ram and Nvidia GTX1660 Super on each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aleale1 Posted February 23, 2020 Author Share Posted February 23, 2020 1 minute ago, walt.farrell said: Yes, it supports auto-activation, and works with the Affinity applications. Thanks a lot! I can’t believe it! Are you serious? I’ll check it tonight. Do you really mean that opening the Publisher document with missing fonts Main Type will automatically install them from my font collection??!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanPickup Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 Now I get the meaning of your automatic and the answer is no. You need to do it manually. As a I very rarely use fonts that are not installed, mainly for headlines, I had not considered this. The other time is with imported pdf files which I am unlikely to have the fonts as most are premium. If I am wrong and Main Type does do that please let me know someone. Quote Alan Pickup Windows 11 Home all Affinity suite of Apps PC and Gigabyte Laptop 16gb Ram and Nvidia GTX1660 Super on each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 24 minutes ago, aleale1 said: Thanks a lot! I can’t believe it! Are you serious? I’ll check it tonight. Do you really mean that opening the Publisher document with missing fonts Main Type will automatically install them from my font collection??!! Sorry, no. I misunderstood what you're looking for. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 MainType doesn't have auto-activation for anything but Adobe applications and its support for those applications is weak and often not kept up to current Adobe versions. I believe Erwin has farmed out the plug-in support to a 3rd-party developer in the past, dunno how he is handling these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 46 minutes ago, aleale1 said: Do you really mean that opening the Publisher document with missing fonts Main Type will automatically install them from my font collection??!! As others already stated Main Type doesn't do this. I am using Main Type Pro myself and get along with it quite well. How I do it is to create project groups that contain all the fonts used with a special project. Those groups and the fonts in it are just links they do not take up much space. That way I can activate all fonts that are associated with a project with one click. It's not automatic but not bad at all. d. Quote Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aleale1 Posted February 23, 2020 Author Share Posted February 23, 2020 29 minutes ago, dominik said: How I do it is to create project groups that contain all the fonts used with a special project That is OK but not as good as the auto-activation, offered by Extensis Suitcase for Adobe products. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 12 minutes ago, aleale1 said: That is OK but not as good as the auto-activation, offered by Extensis Suitcase for Adobe products. I did not say that it is the same nor as good. I doubt we will see a font manager by Affinity in the near future. That's why I chimed in to present a workable solution (at least for me 😉 ) d. Quote Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aleale1 Posted February 23, 2020 Author Share Posted February 23, 2020 14 minutes ago, dominik said: That's why I chimed in to present a workable solution You are right. But Affinity already has it’s own very primitive Font Manager, and I proposed to implement Missing Fonts Auto-Activation Feature in it. That was the topic of this branch from its start. Unfortunately, I was not clear enough, and people did not grab what I meant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 32 minutes ago, aleale1 said: You are right. But Affinity already has it’s own very primitive Font Manager, and I proposed to implement Missing Fonts Auto-Activation Feature in it. That was the topic of this branch from its start. Unfortunately, I was not clear enough, and people did not grab what I meant. I don't think Affinity has a font manager at all, in the sense that you mean. It simply uses the fonts installed in the system, and reacts to new fonts boring loaded into the system or removed from the system. The current font manager in Affinity is not a system font manager, but strictly local to the current document. Still, asking for an enhancement is reasonable. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 41 minutes ago, aleale1 said: That was the topic of this branch from its start. Just to be clear on my side. I absolutely do not oppose the request for a font manager. This is what this forum is about. I just do not see it coming soon and that why I offered my workflow as a solution. Cheers, d. Quote Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aleale1 Posted February 23, 2020 Author Share Posted February 23, 2020 6 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: I don't think Affinity has a font manager at all, in the sense that you mean Affinity has not. I just used a term found under “Menu>Document>Font Manager”. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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