Some fonts not showing in Glyphs panel

[James husted]

I often make certificates and awards in Illustrator and want to change over to Affinty Designer to do this work in the future. The problem is that many of the fonts I use, that have swashes or alternate caps and treatments, do not show up in the Glyphs panel. I often use the panels in Illustrator to choose and try out different versions of a letter in the font and being able to visually choose it is necessary. Here is an example:

From Illustrator (in this case CS6 though CC is the same):

The same file and the same font in Affinity Designer:

Is there a preference setting I am missing here? Some switch that needs to be switched? For anyone doing Awards, Wedding Invites, or any documents that need fancy script or swashes, this is an important missing feature.

 

[Dan C]

Hi @James husted,

Welcome to the Affinity Forums

The Glyph Browser has options in the 'burger' menu, found in the top right of the studio -

If you change this to 'Unicode plus Alternatives', do you see the glyphs you expect?

[kenmcd]

18 hours ago, James husted said:

The problem is that many of the fonts I use, that have swashes or alternate caps and treatments, do not show up in the Glyphs panel.

The font style name looks like an old Type 1 supplemental font. Affinity applications do not support old Type 1 fonts.

[kenmcd]

The most current version of Poetica is OpenType-PS (.otf).
And it is named Poetica Std, not just Poetica.

And it works fine in the APub glyph browser.