Pre-flight reporting that I have missing fonts that I actually have.

[KipV]

I am not sure if this is a bug. I have Times New Roman on my machine, I see it in Font Book, I can choose the font in Publisher and other apps but Publisher keeps telling me that it is a missing font. I don't think that is the case. Otherwise wouldn't it also be mentioned when I am in other apps? Even when I am in Publisher it doesn't seem to have a problem exporting the file with that font on it.

[carl123]

Can you cut a piece of the text where the font shows as missing into a new document

Then test that new document to see if preflight still gives the same error

If it does you can upload that sample document to the forum for analysis

 

[KipV]

Okay here is a file with some type from my document I have copied over.

Different types of TImes Roman coming up wtih errors.afpub

[carl123]

Times and Times New Roman are two different fonts, your attachment states that the font called Times shows as missing in Preflight

Are you sure you have the Times font installed and not just Times new Roman

[KipV]

Yes I have both Times and Times New Roman installed. Here is the screenshot of my Font Book with those two fonts. Both of the fonts run fine in Apple Pages.

[kenmcd]

Times is an Apple "Document-support font". These do not appear in Affinity applications. Replace it with Times New Roman and it should work.

See: https://support.apple.com/en-asia/HT213266#document

 

[KipV]

22 minutes ago, kenmcd said:

Times is an Apple "Document-support font". These do not appear in Affinity applications. Replace it with Times New Roman and it should work.

See: https://support.apple.com/en-asia/HT213266#document

I was trying to change it to Times New Roman in the Font Manager dialog but it doesn't seem like there is a way to do that? I didn't set up character styles since it is just the same badge style repeated over and over. I didn't see a need to change the font later down the road. Do I now need to select each font and switch them over?

 

[walt.farrell]

15 minutes ago, KipV said:

I was trying to change it to Times New Roman in the Font Manager dialog but it doesn't seem like there is a way to do that?

From the screenshot you've done it. But that only affects how the document displays and exports. If you actually want to change the font of the text you need to change it via a style, or by selecting the text and changing it in the Context Toolbar, or by using Find and Replace.

[KipV]

1 minute ago, walt.farrell said:

From the screenshot you've done it. But that only affects how the document displays and exports. If you actually want to change the font of the text you need to change it via a style, or by selecting the text and changing it in the Context Toolbar, or by using Find and Replace.

I was wondering how to do it in find and replace but couldn't find where to change the font. Is that an option?

[walt.farrell]

52 minutes ago, KipV said:

I was wondering how to do it in find and replace but couldn't find where to change the font. Is that an option?

You can click the cog icon for the Find field, and under Format you can find text with a particular font. You'll probably need to tell it you want to see Missing fonts.

Then you can click the cog icon for the Replace field, and under Format you can specify the font you want to use as the replacement.

[KipV]

38 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

You can click the cog icon for the Find field, and under Format you can find text with a particular font. You'll probably need to tell it you want to see Missing fonts.

Then you can click the cog icon for the Replace field, and under Format you can specify the font you want to use as the replacement.

Nice, that worked really well. I didn't see the "missing fonts" section the first time I went through the dialog. I thought that the "all fonts" section would also contain the missing fonts too. That is a pretty nice feature especially for basic documents like mine that don't really require a lot of character style set up.