Hakim-Au Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 According to Google Fonts, Noto Music is supposed to be a font that will produce music notes. This doesn't happen in Affinity or Word, but does on the Google fonts site. How can I print music notes in Affinity, preferably Publisher? I have just spent ages downloading Sibelius, adding a few notes to a staff and placing the pdf export into Af-Photo. Cropping and erasing the staff etc eventually gave me what I wanted, but what a tedious process. I am on Windows 11 using Af 2.1 (Which crashed once when dragging a .png asset onto the open photo page.) Thanks for input/advice. Hakim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 You can insert them from the Glyph Browser in Publisher, Designer, or Photo. Hakim-Au 1 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...
Pšenda Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 (edited) For me same as Google Fonts Edit: enter notes via Glyph Browser Edited July 17, 2023 by Pšenda Hakim-Au 1 Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.5.5.2636 (Retail) Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.4317. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.4317. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 2 hours ago, Hakim-Au said: According to Google Fonts, Noto Music is supposed to be a font that will produce music notes. This doesn't happen in Affinity or Word, but does on the Google fonts site. Noto Music only includes actual Unicode characters. Normal Latin text characters are also included at their normal Unicode text code-points. It does also include the Unicode Musical Symbols block (U+1D100-U+1D1EA). And the Byzantine Musical Symbols, and Ancient Greek Musical Notation blocks. And the common musical symbols in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. All of these are at their correct Unicode defined code-points. The music symbol fonts in Sibelius do not use normal Unicode code-points. As is a common practice with many of these old custom music fonts, they have replaced normal text characters with music symbols. That enables users to use a keyboard to type letters and have a music symbol appear. To get the music symbols in Noto Music you must enter the correct Unicode code-point, and you cannot do that by typing normal text characters. As mentioned above, you must use the Glyph Browser. In Word you can use the Character Map application to enter the Noto Music symbols (because Character Map does list all glyphs/characters with a Unicode code-point). Hakim-Au 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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