Brackbox Posted August 6, 2021 Posted August 6, 2021 I have recently (after software update) loaded a font. In affinity designer the font is listed as available but when used is not visible. It works fine in pages etc. The font is CNC vector. Quote
Staff Sean P Posted August 6, 2021 Staff Posted August 6, 2021 Hi Brackbox, Can you please supply us with more information please, for example a screenshot of the issue you're seeing, the steps to reproduce it and more importantly the actual name of the font? If possible could you upload the affected fonts to the link below please:https://www.dropbox.com/request/4g6IM52wGYpwxadNKfUr Quote
Alfred Posted August 6, 2021 Posted August 6, 2021 17 minutes ago, Sean P said: more importantly the actual name of the font 39 minutes ago, Brackbox said: The font is CNC vector. It’s available from here (together with its mirror image counterpart, CNC Vector Mirror): https://www.dafont.com/cnc-vector.font It shows up for me if, and only if, I apply a thin stroke. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
Alfred Posted August 6, 2021 Posted August 6, 2021 48 minutes ago, Brackbox said: It works fine in pages etc. It doesn’t show up for me, either in the font list or in the document, in Pages on iPad. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
Staff Sean P Posted August 6, 2021 Staff Posted August 6, 2021 1 hour ago, Alfred said: It’s available from here (together with its mirror image counterpart, CNC Vector Mirror): https://www.dafont.com/cnc-vector.font It shows up for me if, and only if, I apply a thin stroke Thanks for that - I misinterpretted what was meant by 'CNC Vector' I didn't take it for the literal name, so my apologies Brackbox. Regarding the issue That is definitely a very unique font. It looks like the font itself consists of single line curves, and doesn't contain any enclosed, filled areas like a regular font does. As this is the case, it is appearing invisible. If you convert the object to curves you can see the individual vector objects are correct, but obviously as they're just lines and have no stroke they're invisible. I'll pass an improvement on to development to see if they can be improved, but I would suggest Alfred's work around of using strokes if you absolutely need to use this font. Alfred 1 Quote
walt.farrell Posted August 6, 2021 Posted August 6, 2021 19 minutes ago, Sean P said: That is definitely a very unique font. Presumably one intended for use on CNC machines 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 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Brackbox Posted August 6, 2021 Author Posted August 6, 2021 4 hours ago, Alfred said: It’s available from here (together with its mirror image counterpart, CNC Vector Mirror): https://www.dafont.com/cnc-vector.font It shows up for me if, and only if, I apply a thin stroke. Yes the answer seems to be to add a thin stroke. Thank you for you response. I don't understand why it should be so. Alfred 1 Quote
Brackbox Posted August 6, 2021 Author Posted August 6, 2021 3 hours ago, Sean P said: Thanks for that - I misinterpretted what was meant by 'CNC Vector' I didn't take it for the literal name, so my apologies Brackbox. Regarding the issue That is definitely a very unique font. It looks like the font itself consists of single line curves, and doesn't contain any enclosed, filled areas like a regular font does. As this is the case, it is appearing invisible. If you convert the object to curves you can see the individual vector objects are correct, but obviously as they're just lines and have no stroke they're invisible. I'll pass an improvement on to development to see if they can be improved, but I would suggest Alfred's work around of using strokes if you absolutely need to use this font. Thank you for your efforts. Quote
kenmcd Posted August 6, 2021 Posted August 6, 2021 1 hour ago, Brackbox said: I don't understand why it should be so The lines in the characters actually have no width - so there is nothing to show. Most of the time you are seeing the fill within a closed contour of vector drawn outlines. You do not see those outlines, you see the fill. You can see those outlines by applying a stroke to them. In this case you only have the normally invisible vector lines (no fill). So you must apply a stroke to see them. Alfred 1 Quote
Brackbox Posted August 7, 2021 Author Posted August 7, 2021 Thanks for your explanation. A bit of a gotcha for me. kenmcd 1 Quote
Alfred Posted August 7, 2021 Posted August 7, 2021 43 minutes ago, Brackbox said: A bit of a gotcha for me. Why so? If you need output with no stroke applied, you can apply a stroke while working on the document (so that you can see what you’re doing!) and then turn off the stroke before export. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
Brackbox Posted August 18, 2021 Author Posted August 18, 2021 Just assumed that a font would have a stroke by default. Quote
walt.farrell Posted August 18, 2021 Posted August 18, 2021 56 minutes ago, Brackbox said: Just assumed that a font would have a stroke by default. I think that might be a specialized font intended for use on a CNC machine that will be controlled by software that does not expect the font to have a stroke. 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 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Brackbox Posted August 18, 2021 Author Posted August 18, 2021 Thank you. Trust me to find it when I didn't really want it. walt.farrell 1 Quote
kenmcd Posted August 19, 2021 Posted August 19, 2021 15 hours ago, Yannnik said: 安装的字体不显示 Ваш пост не має ніякого відношення до цієї теми. Є багато інших тем, що стосуються вашої проблеми. Іди і знайди їх. Quote
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