Jennifer23 Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 Hi I am sending my affinity designer files to a friend who has affinity designer, same font downloaded and is on the same operating system but it is changing the font, the size of the font and the formatting of the font. I have attached two photos below for you to see. The right side is the preview and the left is how it looks in her affinity designer program. What am I doing wrong? It looks like a totally different font. Check out the #1 on the first photo. It also skews the font more to the right and it looks bolder. I would just like it to show up on her program the way I have made it on mine. Thanks for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, Jennifer. What font did you use? Do you both have the same version of that font? Does your friend get any error messages upon opening your Designer documents? Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.3.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 10 hours ago, Jennifer23 said: It looks like a totally different font. Check out the #1 on the first photo. It also skews the font more to the right and it looks bolder. It is a different font. Export to PDF and have your friend do the same. Then use a PDF reader/editor to check the actual font used on the text. What font? What operating system? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer23 Posted September 28, 2021 Author Share Posted September 28, 2021 Hi the font is Quicksand and we both have the same version. I don't think she gets any error messages, but I will double check. We are both using MacOS. I will try the PDF reader/editor. Thanks so much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 1 hour ago, Jennifer23 said: the font is Quicksand and we both have the same version Which version? And from where? You should both have the v3.006 available from Google Fonts now. Various earlier versions had various errors (some of these are still available on font websites). Some versions included errors in the font names which could cause this issue. Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer23 Posted September 29, 2021 Author Share Posted September 29, 2021 Thanks we are both in the process of switching over to v3.006, we had version 1.1. Thanks so much for this information, we had no idea. kenmcd 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 23 hours ago, LibreTraining said: You should both have the v3.006 available from Google Fonts now. Various earlier versions had various errors (some of these are still available on font websites). Please note that the the download from Google Fonts includes a variable font which is not supported by the Affinity apps. You need to install the individual fonts from the ‘static’ folder that you’ll find when you extract the contents of the downloaded zip archive. The dates for the versions on DaFont and Font Squirrel suggest that they may be older, but I haven’t downloaded them to check the version numbers. kenmcd 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.3.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 12 minutes ago, Alfred said: DaFont and Font Squirrel Quicksand downloaded from FontSquirrel today - v1.002.(2011) - and definitely broken. Quicksand downloaded from DaFont today - v1.000.(2008) - and definitely broken. Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 44 minutes ago, Jennifer23 said: we had version 1.1 Where did you get v1.1? I would like to take a look at it. I assume it is broken too, but would like to confirm. Also please lets us know if the updated fonts fix your issues. Just like to confirm the correct fix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer23 Posted September 29, 2021 Author Share Posted September 29, 2021 I'll ask where we got it from, I am not sure. Also, do you know what will happen to the worksheets I have made with version 1.1 after I delete that font and install v3.006. Should I export and save as PDFs first? Will I have to go back and fix all the places where I used version 1.1? I am assuming so, that way our programs can "talk" to each other. Thanks again for all your help. I will keep you posted on if it fixes our issues. kenmcd 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 @Jennifer23 It is always good to have back-ups. 🙂 But just changing the fonts installed should not damage your documents. I expect the Font Family name to be the same, so that will not change. You may have to re-apply the Font Style for some text depending on which style is applied. It depends on if and/or how the font names were broken in those v1.1 fonts. If you only used the Regular, it may all be OK. Or it may work with Regular and Bold. Dunno. Depends on the fonts and which styles you used. It all may just work fine. You will have to see. But I do expect it to now work correctly and the same on all the computers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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