Embedded bold and medium on export to PDF shows as light

[Mr Lucky]

I am exporting from Publisher (v2) but is not showing the font correctly when I open in preview.

I am using a Google font Quicksand bold for heading and medium for text.

Example page from Publisher:

Opened in Preview seems to be light for both

These are my settings for export, what I missing? Thanks

 

 

[Mr Lucky]

I think I may have solved the issue, I only had the dynamic Quicksand installed. I think preview must need the static fonts.

[Alfred]

If you’ve installed the variable font, uninstall it and then install the individual weights from the ‘static’ folder instead.

[Alfred]

Just now, Mr Lucky said:

I think preview must need the static fonts.

It’s not just the preview. The Affinity apps don’t properly support variable fonts yet.

[Mr Lucky]

7 hours ago, Alfred said:

It’s not just the preview. The Affinity apps don’t properly support variable fonts yet.

Thanks.

 

BTW I didn't mean the Affinity preview, I meant Preview the PDF viewing app. After exporting it showed the correct font but rendered everything as light.

[thomaso]

1 hour ago, Mr Lucky said:

I didn't men the Affinity preview, I meant Preview the PDF viewing app

Hard to understand for what purpose or possible advantage a company names a product with common words like "Preview", "Designer", "Photo", "Publisher" …? It's even worse because possibly more confusing than e.g. "Genious", "Intelligence" or "Tomorrow". Will a newborn ever be named "President"?

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, thomaso said:

Hard to understand for what purpose or possible advantage a company names a product with common words like "Preview", "Designer", "Photo", "Publisher"

The names (from Serif, at least), are "Affinity Designer", "Affinity Photo" and "Affinity Publisher"