John Clark Posted August 24, 2022 Posted August 24, 2022 I'm trying to open an old Adobe Illustrator file in Affinity Designer, and I'm getting font replacement suggestions that don't make sense, because the fonts are activated in my font manager (Extensis Connect Fonts). Can anyone here give me a clue for how to get Designer to see my activated fonts? Many thanks! Quote
John Clark Posted August 24, 2022 Author Posted August 24, 2022 Never mind, I figured it out... 😊 Quote
Old Bruce Posted August 24, 2022 Posted August 24, 2022 12 minutes ago, John Clark said: Can anyone here give me a clue for how to get Designer to see my activated fonts? Many thanks! Don't use cloud based fonts. I guess you could lobby Extensis to include Affinity in the Auto Activation capability function. Currently Sketch and Adobe applications are the only ones. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
thomaso Posted August 24, 2022 Posted August 24, 2022 (edited) 19 hours ago, Old Bruce said: I guess you could lobby Extensis to include Affinity in the Auto Activation capability function. Currently Sketch and Adobe applications are the only ones. Here with Extensis Suitcase Fusion the auto-activation works for Affinity automatically and can't be disabled – whereas Adobe apps need an Adobe plug-in to be activated within Suitcase. Edit: erroneous info, sorry! Installed but not activated fonts do not get auto-activated in my Extensis Suitcase Fusion if they are missing in Affinity. Edited August 25, 2022 by thomaso Quote • MacBookPro Retina 15" | macOS 10.14.6 | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 • iPad 10.Gen. | iOS 18.5. | Affinity V2.6
Old Bruce Posted August 24, 2022 Posted August 24, 2022 Extensis Suitcase Fusion versus Extensis Connect Fonts. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
John Clark Posted August 25, 2022 Author Posted August 25, 2022 While I'm using Connect Fonts, its font vault is on my computer, as are all the fonts I'm using. My understanding is that the vault is available through their web interface as well, but I don't use that feature. It likely also allows my vault to be synced between multiple machines, but I don't use that feature either. Sorry, didn't mean to stir up any controversy either! P.S. Is there a way to delete posts that were created by accident, like the one above? Quote
walt.farrell Posted August 25, 2022 Posted August 25, 2022 13 hours ago, John Clark said: Never mind, I figured it out... 😊 What was the solution, in case someone hits the same issue? 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 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
John Clark Posted August 25, 2022 Author Posted August 25, 2022 5 hours ago, walt.farrell said: What was the solution, in case someone hits the same issue? I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I was confused about whether or not a particular font was activated or not. It was marked as a 'favorite' in Connect Fonts, but wasn't actually activated. Of course, it would be nice if it had auto-activated, but that's another issue, obviously. I plan to reach out to Extensis about that issue separately... walt.farrell and Old Bruce 1 1 Quote
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