Kelly_23 Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 I am using a font that is only showing in lower case, the font works fine and shows upper case in any of the Adobe programmes. I have also tried reinstalling the font and it still not working. Has anyone else come across this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, Kelly. Which font, which Affinity application, and which OS do you use? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 On 1/31/2021 at 5:54 PM, Kelly_23 said: I am using a font that is only showing in lower case, This is intriguing. Please provide details. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderings Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 isn't there a character option to do only uppercase and lowercase? I never use this but for some reason I thought there was a feature in Indesign for this and would assume something similar in Publisher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly_23 Posted February 3, 2021 Author Share Posted February 3, 2021 Hi, Sorry for the delay. The font is 'I Love Glitter'. It's the only font I've come across that I'm having this issue with. I have checked if it's some kind of setting and I can even write a word in uppercase in a different font and then change the font to the problem one and all the letters switch to lowercase. When I look at the glyph browser and hover over characters there it shows that some are supposed to be capitals, but they are all showing lowercase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 17 minutes ago, Kelly_23 said: The font is 'I Love Glitter'. Did you looked how to use it? http://mistifonts.com/i-love-glitter/ https://mistifonts.com/fonts/pdf/ilg-guide-to-special-symbols.pdf Did you tried to copy/paste glyphs and characters over from the PDF (...I see you tried from the Affinity Glyph panel)? Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 2 hours ago, Kelly_23 said: The font is 'I Love Glitter' Which version did you install - OTF or TTF? What is your operating system? Which Affinity app are you using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kelly_23 Posted February 3, 2021 Author Share Posted February 3, 2021 I'm using Affinity Publisher and my operating system is Windows 10. I have installed the OpenType version. I'm not getting the uppercase as you are @lagarto, my just shows all the characters in lowercase. I'm not having any problems with any of the special characters, it is just uppercase. I was using this font in Adobe InDesign before I switched to Affinity, I use the font for a print I sell so if uppercase letters are requested I am having to do it in InDesign, which is not ideal as I'm having to pay for it just for this reason. One other thing, when I export to pdf in Affinity I have to convert to curves beforehand or the characters change to a jumble of other characters, not sure if this has anything to do with why this font isn't working correctly for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 Are "Glyphs" checked? 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...
Kelly_23 Posted February 3, 2021 Author Share Posted February 3, 2021 They weren't and checking this didn't change anything, but your post has made me realise that I don't have all the special characters either. I hadn't realised as I don't tend to use the other apart from one that is showing for me. 😫 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 (edited) 12 hours ago, Kelly_23 said: I have installed the OpenType version. Both of the fonts are OpenType. Both have the same OpenType features. Just that the .otf font has glyphs with PostScript outlines, or curves. And that the .ttf font has glyphs with TrueType outlines, or curves. When writing docs about fonts I now use OpenType-PS and OpenType-TT to make that more clear. Been poking around inside the font to see if there is anything which would explain your uppercase issue. The uppercase is not missing in your image above, it has just had the glyphs replaced with the lowercase. Or, in other words, the code points are there, but the glyphs are wrong. But because I have found nothing inside the fonts to explain that, and it works fine for me and others, most likely this is an issue with the font on your machine. Duplicate install issue, font cache issue, etc. ??? Un-installing the OTF and re-installing the TTF may update the caches, etc. and at least get you working again 12 hours ago, Kelly_23 said: One other thing, when I export to pdf in Affinity I have to convert to curves beforehand or the characters change to a jumble of other characters, Can you provide a sample of this PDF? And the APub file too if possible. I may be able to modify the font so that does not happen. If you have been copying/pasting from the "guide" PDF then that may be part of the problem. I have already added some OpenType features which will make working with this font easier.Stylistic sets 01 and 02 Much of what was needed was already there, but the majority of the glyphs had names which prevented this in an automatic way. So I renamed them and auto-generated the features.Access All Alternates This is pretty easy when everything is named properly. Which brings us to the "Swishes." Was looking at the best way to add these in an OpenType feature when I saw your comment above about "jumble of characters." And, I would like to make sure I add this feature in a way which works for you in APub.So please provide the requested PDF and APub doc and we can figure this out. EDIT: Never-mind, it all appears to be working fine in APub. Meaning PDF export works as expected. Edited February 4, 2021 by LibreTraining EDIT: PDF export works as expected Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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kenmcd Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 9 hours ago, Lagarto said: It seems that this font, when downloaded from certain sites, is crippled in a way that there are lowercase glyphs placed in the uppercase Unicode code points: Wow. That is bizarre. Where did you download the bad version? But, still, this does not explain why the OP only has issues in APub. Other apps are OK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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kenmcd Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 35 minutes ago, Lagarto said: I do not remember for sure but I think that from ihttps://www.1001fonts.com/mf-i-love-glitter-font.html -- but the zip file from here only contains a TTF file. From 1001fonts: v1.000, 2014, 300 glyphs From author: v2.000, 2017, 492 glyphs So that looks like an early version. With no caps apparently. 35 minutes ago, Lagarto said: It might have been another computer, or there might have been duplicate installations. My vote is on duplicate install. 35 minutes ago, Lagarto said: The bad font listed somehow not as something beginning with "I" but first on the list Yeah, there is some leading character in the font name fields. Hard to tell exactly what it is on my phone. Could just be a space, or could be something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly_23 Posted February 6, 2021 Author Share Posted February 6, 2021 @LibreTraining YES! Uninstalling and reinstalling the TTF worked and I have uppercase and all the characters! Thank you so much! I'm not sure why I didn't think of doing this initially, I think because it was working fine with InDesign. The other thing you were right with was I had duplicate installs which I realised when uninstalling. Thanks everyone who took the time to help too, the responses are really appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 @Kelly_23 Glad to hear it. Would you like to try the improved version? I changed the name slightly so it can be installed at the same time without interfering with the original. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly_23 Posted February 6, 2021 Author Share Posted February 6, 2021 Yes please, that would be great, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 7 minutes ago, Kelly_23 said: Yes please, that would be great, thanks. OK. I just need to finish the guide on the new OpenType features (much easier then doing everything thru the glyph browser). Guide will be done later today. Will upload then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 @Kelly_23 OK. Will send you a download link via PM. Includes: font (TTF), user guide (PDF), and character set (PDF). Note: the stylistic sets do not appear in the APub Typography panel unless you click the "Hide irrelevant features" box (which makes absolutely no sense at all). Sent the same as above plus the source files to Misti. Hope she adds the features. @Lagarto Turns out she, Misti, originally released a demo version with just lowercase. Font was named: MF I Love Glitter (MF = Misti's Fonts) So someone cut-off the MF and left that space at the beginning of the font name. She later decided to release the full font "free for personal use or non-profit use" for marketing purposes. lacerto 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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