Product Key

[Soirse]

Hello 

i recently purchase Affinity Designer via MS STORE but did not receive a product key for the software. Although i do not need it to run the software as it can be launched from MS store.

my problem is i do not have a physical location on my pc where the software should be, nothing shows up in remove/uninstall nor in the regedit software section and right click should be able to open the files location.

my predicament is i want to add new fonts to designer but that a little hard to do without a the physical software being present on my pc.

 

is there away to add new fonts to designer without having to drop the file into the designer location. or how do i get my product key from ms and do a hard install instead of a suspected mirror image

 

any help greatly appreciated thanks 

[Alfred]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @Soirse.

Fonts are added to the operating system, not to individual apps.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-install-fonts-in-windows-10/
 

Microsoft Store apps are tied to your Microsoft account, so there are no product keys.

[Soirse]

so in order to use new font for designer i need to add them to the windows directory 

not to the designer folder? is that correct, and im not talking about Microsoft fonts 

fonts from other site dafont.net etc

 

[walt.farrell]

10 hours ago, Soirse said:

so in order to use new font for designer i need to add them to the windows directory 

not to the designer folder? is that correct, and im not talking about Microsoft fonts 

fonts from other site dafont.net etc

 

You should not "add them to the windows directory", but "install them in the system". Windows provides mechanisms for installing fonts. For example, you can right-click on a font file (.ttf or .otf) and choose "Install".

[Soirse]

correct me if im wrong walt but your saying if i add new font to my operating system windows etc. designer will access those new fonts??  @walt.farrell @Alfred

[Alfred]

7 minutes ago, Soirse said:

correct me if im wrong

No, you’re not wrong. Try it: you’ll like it!

If you open a document which uses a missing font, AD will pop up a message about it. The app’s font cache will be updated automatically when you install the font, but you’ll need to close the affected document and reopen it for correct display of any text using that font.