a2jc4life Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 (edited) I've just created a couple of documents in Affinity Designer, which on export to PDF are doing something weird with one -- and only one -- of the three fonts. It isn't showing up missing and it isn't being substituted; it's just showing up as a weird assortment of bizarre characters. (See attached images for clips of what it should look like and what it does look like.) If I check the settings on the generated PDF, the other two fonts say their encoding is "Identity-H" but this one says it's "Custom." I'd rather figure out how to solve this problem than have to redesign my whole project with a different font, but I'm not sure where to even start, because I'm not sure why this font isn't behaving like the others. Edited November 13, 2020 by a2jc4life Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 5 hours ago, a2jc4life said: I'd rather figure out how to solve this problem than have to redesign my whole project with a different font, but I'm not sure where to even start, because I'm not sure why this font isn't behaving like the others. Type1 is quite old, perhaps you could use a newer version? I saw an OTF e.g. on linotype.com. Where is @LibreTraining when you need him / her? Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a2jc4life Posted November 13, 2020 Author Share Posted November 13, 2020 Hmm. I'm kind of ignorant about this stuff, and I don't really know what Type1 means. I thought it was a TrueType font. In a roundabout way, I think you've solved my problem. I went to check and see if it's listed some other way (besides TTF) in my Windows font directory, and discovered it says it's a TTF, but it also says, "Font embeddability: Restricted license; Print and preview" -- but some of the variants I looked at were listed differently. It seems that the original free files I downloaded to check out the font are completely different files from the paid ones I later bought, but I didn't realize that, so some of the original files hadn't been replaced. I uninstalled them all, re-downloaded (newer ones are OTF, apparently) and re-installed, and it looks like it's working now. Interestingly, the font information in the document properties is exactly the same as it was before -- but the text displays properly, so that's good enough for me! Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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