Jaap Strijker Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 Hi, I have a company font, which I can use in almost all MacOS applications. When I use this font in one of the Affinity applications, the characters are replaced by a default font. See attachments. How to resolve this? Br, Jaap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 It would be more helpful if you could click the "i" button in Font Book so that we could see the technical details of the ABB font. Or better: copy & paste them here as text. Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 If it is an old pre-Unicode TrueType font then Affinity apps cannot find the characters (because the codes are wrong) and what you see is a replacement font for the "missing" characters. If that is the case then the solution is to convert it to a Unicode font which is relatively easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaap Strijker Posted March 17, 2021 Author Share Posted March 17, 2021 3 hours ago, loukash said: It would be more helpful if you could click the "i" button in Font Book so that we could see the technical details of the ABB font. Or better: copy & paste them here as text. PostScript name ABBLogoPlain Full name ABB Logo Plain Family ABB Logo Style Plain Kind PostScript Type1 Language Script Version Macromedia Fontographer 4.1.2 25/01/99 Location /Users/familiestrijker/Library/Fonts/ABBLogoPlain.otf Unique name Macromedia Fontographer 4.1.2 ABB Logo Plain Copyright Generated by Fontographer 4.1.2 Enabled Yes Duplicate No Copy protected Yes Glyph count 15 ABB Logo Bold ABB Logo Bold PostScript name ABBLogoBold Full name ABB Logo Bold Family ABB Logo Style Bold Kind TrueType Language Script Version Macromedia Fontographer 4.1.2 25/01/99 Location /Users/familiestrijker/Library/Fonts/Abblb___.ttf Unique name Macromedia Fontographer 4.1.2 ABB Logo Bold Copyright Generated by Fontographer 4.1.2 Enabled Yes Duplicate No Copy protected Yes Glyph count 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 10 minutes ago, Jaap Strijker said: Kind PostScript Type1 This is a problem, but the font should still display in Affinity, albeit without any kerning. 11 minutes ago, Jaap Strijker said: Copy protected Yes This is likely the real issue here. For example, the Zapf Dingbats system font on El Capitan is also tagged as "copy protected", and it will also refuse to display in Affinity with an ! mark in the list. Tell the client to provide you an updated version that is not copy protected, a.k.a. "Preview & Print Embedding Allowed". Alternatively it might be technically possible to unblock the font with a font editor. Of course this is not exactly kosher, so… Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 Ah, found a possible solution, at least for Zapf Dingbats: Use the Glyphs panel to insert the characters you need. Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 Converted the fonts to Unicode. Appear to be working in APub as demonstrated in the image below.. Try these: ABB-Logo-TTF-Unicode.7z Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaap Strijker Posted March 18, 2021 Author Share Posted March 18, 2021 @LibreTraining, thanks for converting, unfortenately i'm not able to download the file in your answer. If possible send me a PM with the converted fonts. Btw. how did you get access to the ABBLogo Font, ABB employee? Thanks for the support! BR, Jaap Strijker kenmcd 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaap Strijker Posted March 18, 2021 Author Share Posted March 18, 2021 Hi Loukash, The workaround with the Glyphs panel to insert the characters, works fine. BR, Jaap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 3 hours ago, Jaap Strijker said: If possible send me a PM with the converted fonts. Btw. how did you get access to the ABBLogo Font, ABB employee? I will PM you a download link; no way to attach files to a PM. I found the fonts in a very old WindowsXP era collection of corporate logo fonts (from 2008). They appear to be the same fonts you have, same dates, etc. I cleaned them up a bit (deleted some empty glyphs, etc.) and converted them ... to this decade. Let me know if you have any issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaap Strijker Posted March 19, 2021 Author Share Posted March 19, 2021 Thanks! It works perfect. BR, Jaap kenmcd 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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