DougG Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 (edited) I exported a simple one-page data sheet to PDF. Viewing the result in Adobe Acrobat and PDF Expert were the same — nothing like the file I created in Publisher 2.2 Beta. The font, Montserrat, was dimmed and all one weight (no bolding). Then I tried Helvetica Neue, and it exported to PDF without any problems — the same with Optima Pro. So was my problem, Montserrat? I noticed I was using Montserrat variable fonts downloaded from Google Fonts. I deleted them and reinstalled Montserrat using static fonts. Problem solved. There's probably more to it — I didn't reload the variable fonts to test them — but static fonts solved my problem. Are variable fonts a problem? Doug Edited July 9, 2023 by DougG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 27 minutes ago, DougG said: Are variable fonts a problem? Variable fonts are not supported by any Affinity apps. 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 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 2 hours ago, DougG said: Problem solved. There's probably more to it — I didn't reload the variable fonts to test them — but static fonts solved my problem. Are variable fonts a problem? Variable fonts are not supported - so what you get is the default master. My guess is you are on macOS which displays the variable font instances even though they are not supported. Which is confusing. Do not install both the static fonts and the variable fonts from Google Fonts at the same time. They are made to be interchangeable so the style names in the fonts will conflict. Sometimes a font's development repository will also have a differently named variable font available which can be installed at the same time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougG Posted July 9, 2023 Author Share Posted July 9, 2023 Very helpful. Thank you. kenmcd 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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