Font variants not exported except via print?

[Zac Bir]

This is a minimal reproduction of an issue I'm seeing in another document. I'm using Google's Roboto Slab font in its Black weight. When I save as PDF via the Print dialog, the Black weight is preserved, but when I export PDF (with font and subset font embedding enabled), it reverts to Regular weight.

Blah - exported.pdf Blah - printed.pdf Blah.afpub

[Zac Bir]

Seems to work okay if I export with text as curves, but that obviously alters the ability to select text in the resulting PDF.

[walt.farrell]

How are you viewing the PDF file?

If you're viewing it by reloading it into Publisher, you might need to embed all fonts, not a subset.

[Zac Bir]

Viewing in macOS Preview, but the same discrepancy shows in Adobe Acrobat Reader.

[MEB]

Hi Zac Bir,
Can you zip and attach the fonts you are using please? I'm having trouble reproducing this with the version i have installed. Thanks.

[Zac Bir]

Aha, that gives me an idea. I installed the Variable Weight version of the TTF from this download: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto+Slab?query=Roboto+Slab I will try again installing the individual weights.

[MEB]

We do not support variable weight fonts.

[Zac Bir]

3 minutes ago, Zac Bir said:

Aha, that gives me an idea. I installed the Variable Weight version of the TTF from this download: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto+Slab?query=Roboto+Slab I will try again installing the individual weights.

Boom, that did it. Results are now as expected.

Thanks for the nudge!

[Zac Bir]

1 hour ago, MEB said:

We do not support variable weight fonts.

In what way? Just in the export pipeline? It worked when printed to PDF. Was it working because print to PDF uses the system printing workflow? In any case, glad for the pointer.

[tsjmc]

I had the same issue yesterday, albeit with a different variable font. Didn't realise that Publisher didn't support variable fonts – so thanks for posting this!