Mischugo Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Font not available Installed font is not available in Designer In Afinity's other apps, yes. In all other apps on the computer yes. Is this a feature or a bug? The help file on the topic is also not correct as I see it. Open the font management: Select Manage Fonts from the Document menu. In my version of Affinity Designer there is no "Document menu" Inappropriate wording maybe Quote Die Now Live Later - KMFDM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TP_Prof Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 I have same problem - When I select the Symbol font nothing happens - it stays as arial font. (on Mac - AD ver 1.8.6 MacOS Big Sur ) this is not a new problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 On 12/17/2020 at 10:21 AM, TP_Prof said: When I select the Symbol font nothing happens - it stays as arial font. (on Mac - AD ver 1.8.6 MacOS Big Sur ) this is not a new problem. There are a limited number of glyphs 200 (with No Letters at all) in the Symbol font, the Arial font has over 3000. To use the symbols you would have to use the Glyph browser or have the arcane key combinations memorized. If you type Hello World then you'll get whatever font you had been using prior to selecting the font, rather weird in my opinion. I would expect nothing to be entered and a system beep to sound. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TP_Prof Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 Thanks for the comment - Im sorry, but I am confused by what you are talking about. Ive found the Glyph Browser, and I see that I can inset a symbol that way. Thats very convoluted. Why cant I just select the symbol font to give me the greek letter tau when I type t ? I have no idea what your Hello World comment means. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 13 hours ago, TP_Prof said: Why cant I just select the symbol font to give me the greek letter tau when I type t ? Because it is a unicode symbol outside of the usual Latin script used by keyboards. It isn't mapped to any particular key. If you are on Mac you can add a greek input source and then just switch to that for typing tau τ by hitting the t key, and it will work with any font which contains greek language glyphs. Essentially that means most fonts, I would expect all of the ones from the Operating System and anything with over a thousand glyphs. I am not sure about Windows OS. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted January 5, 2021 Staff Share Posted January 5, 2021 Hi @Mischugo, Sorry for the delayed reply. We were closed over Christmas/NY. What font are you talking about? Can you attach screen recording of this in action? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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