why is characters changing from my imported pdf, from swedish to some kind of greek?

[Mats Winblad von Walter]

Boken om .._20210928.pdf

[John Rostron]

Hello @Walter, and welcome to the forums.

If I look at your pdf file in Sumatra pdf reader it looks fine. If I load it into Affinity Publisher, I get a dialogue box asking me about replacement for missing fonts (Liberation Sans and Liberation Serif), suggesting the equivalent Arial Narrow fonts. It looks OK when it then loads. Do you get a similar dialogue box? What substiture fonts does it suggest? Do you have the Liberation fonts on your computer.

It always helps with such queries to include your computer specs: Windows or Mac or iPad; what OS?

John

[walt.farrell]

It might also help to have a screenshot of what you see, @Mats Winblad von Walter. And, as John said, welcome to the forums.

 

[Mats Winblad von Walter]

Thank you, John and Walt! I now found that much of the text is in Lucida Calligraph. Can I import fonts to Affinity. I can't find any equivalent.

Mats

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, Mats Winblad von Walter said:

Can I import fonts to Affinity.

You would install the fonts into your OS or into your Font Manager (if any), not into your Affinity application.

[Alfred]

3 hours ago, Mats Winblad von Walter said:

I now found that much of the text is in Lucida Calligraph. Can I import fonts to Affinity. I can't find any equivalent.

Lucida Calligraphy is supplied with Microsoft Office applications.

Edited September 28, 2021 by Alfred
Unwanted autocarrot intrusion!

[Mats Winblad von Walter]

Thx, Alfred! Can I import Lucida Calligraphy fonts to Affinity?

[Old Bruce]

7 minutes ago, Mats Winblad von Walter said:

Can I import Lucida Calligraphy fonts to Affinity?

Be warned though that Affinity applications cannot use Variable Fonts nor can they use Colour Fonts.

You can use any font that is on your computer. There is no import/open of fonts in any of the Affinity applications. They all use the fonts which are on the computer. If you do not have the Lucida font on your computer you will have to find it and purchase it in order to use it in any application.

[Mats Winblad von Walter]

I have Lucida Calligraphy, so why can´t Affinity find it (and many others)?

[Old Bruce]

Is the Lucida a colour font?

Is it a Variable font?

If you answered yes to either then the Affinity applications won't be able to use it.

What OS are you using Windows or Mac? I use Mac and can help with fonts being hidden but I have no help for you if you are on Windows.

[Mats Winblad von Walter]

Okey, thank you, Bruce! I don´t think it´s a variable, but I´m not sure. I am using Windows 10. Maybe I just give it up.

[John Rostron]

Lucida Calligraphy works on my Windows 10 PC, and I can find it and use it from Affinity Photo without problem.

Searching for Lucida Calligraphy finds it for sale with no mention of it being a Variable font or a Colour font.

John

[Mats Winblad von Walter]

Thank you, John! Yes, it`s strange that Affinity Publisher can`t find it.

Mats

[Dan C]

Hi @Mats Winblad von Walter,

I can confirm that this font is installed for me, and working as expected in Affinity Windows - 

Can you please open Windows Settings then select Personalisation and navigate to Fonts. Now, search for 'Lucida' in this dialog and provide a screenshot of the results you're seeing? This should appear similar to the below -

Many thanks in advance

[Mats Winblad von Walter]

No, I don`t have the Calligraphy font there in Windows settings, but I have it in Word-fonts (Office 365).

Mats

[Dan C]

Thanks for confirming that

This would indicate you are using a Microsoft Cloud version of this font, further information regarding these can be found here - 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/cloud-fonts-in-office-f7b009fe-037f-45ed-a556-b5fe6ede6adb

When using Microsoft Cloud fonts, these are only available within Microsoft apps, as outlined here - 

https://designtopresent.com/2019/03/31/a-guide-to-cloud-fonts-in-microsoft-office-365/

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Downloaded fonts are stored in cache and available to use in other Office apps. The fonts are cached as long as there is space and purged when there is need to save a new font. Because the fonts are cached and not stored in the Windows Fonts folder, you won’t be able to access them in other programs like the Adobe suite, for instance

Unfortunately this is why Affinity does not display the font correctly for you, as your licence only covers usage within Microsoft apps. I hope this clears things up!

[Mats Winblad von Walter]

Alright, that explain everything! Lucky me, who can choose so many other fonts. 🙂

Thank you all!