Adit Posted April 2, 2023 Posted April 2, 2023 Hi affinity forum! Hope you guys have a great day... I want to ask about this topic, maybe to silly to ask but i still wonder is there anyway to make the outlined text like the curved shape (attached on image) so i can still edit the outlined text without convert it to curve. Am experiencing this on affinity designer 2.0.4 Windows 11. P.S its not happened on mac version. Thankyou Quote
firstdefence Posted April 2, 2023 Posted April 2, 2023 Which Font is it that you are using? I have a font called Figtree that has the same behaviour and I think it's because it is a variable font or it is a static version of a variable font. Adit and Alfred 2 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
firstdefence Posted April 2, 2023 Posted April 2, 2023 This is how montserrat is constructed as seen in the Font editor Gylphs At the moment Affinity doesn't support Variable fonts, I have no idea why? Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
GarryP Posted April 2, 2023 Posted April 2, 2023 When looking for a solution to a problem regarding text, a good first thing to do is to try searching the forums for the font name to see if that font is already known to have, or be causing, problems. For example: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/174562-why-my-montserrat-typeface-look-weird-when-i-swap-fill-to-stroke/ firstdefence 1 Quote
kenmcd Posted April 14, 2023 Posted April 14, 2023 On 4/2/2023 at 1:15 PM, lacerto said: So it would appear that it is a font specific issue No. Nothing wrong with the variable font. Not a font specific issue. The issue is with those applications not being able to apply a stroke properly. (which I wrongly assumed they would be able to do if they support variable fonts) Quote
kenmcd Posted April 15, 2023 Posted April 15, 2023 18 hours ago, lacerto said: InDesign I just did a quick test in ID17 and it appears to work as expected. (have it running in a VM just to test stuff) The same issue affects browsers, so I have seen a number of discussions in the Google Fonts repos. When applying the outline using webkit-text-stroke you can see the same issue. IIRC some of the browsers do work, and some do not. (cannot remember which now) There is a test page here: https://jsbin.com/movowohesu/edit?html,output And here: https://www.html-code-generator.com/demo/css/text-stroke Although the second one seems to have issues at the moment. Normally it has a button which allows you to select online fonts from Google Fonts. Quote
kenmcd Posted April 19, 2023 Posted April 19, 2023 On 4/14/2023 at 11:10 PM, lacerto said: No, I was just sloppy when testing. There is no change from CS6 versions, it is just that if these problematic glyphs have a fill, they will be rendered correctly, not showing the overlapping outlines. I think I did the same thing. Have to take a closer look. Quote
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