The fix button in preflight for missing fonts is very confusing

[dehskins]

I click on a fix button beside a font error in the preflight. The dialogue that opens up shows that replacement fonts are set or at least they are selected. Nothing is being replaced. How exactly does this fix button work and why is it so hard to find information about it? I have downloaded a pdf template for my project. It is loaded with fonts I do not have on my system. AFFINITY is making this a problem for me. I want all of these fonts replaced and I have found zero ways to accomplish this. There must be an effective way in Affinity Publisher to do this but as usual, it is almost impossible to find answers about Affinity in any search results unless it is super basic. The replace font dialogue box is useless as far as I can tell.

[dehskins]

It looks to me like Affinity doesn't fix what is broken.

[MikeTO]

I don't know much about missing font issues, but here is the information on Preflight and the Font Manager:

Preflight: https://affinity.help/publisher2/English.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Publishing/preflight.html?title=Preflight

Preflight panel: https://affinity.help/publisher2/English.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Panels/preflightPanel.html?title=Preflight panel

Font Manager: https://affinity.help/publisher2/English.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Text/fontManager.html?title=Font Manager

Good luck

[dehskins]

Thanks, Mike. Unfortunately, none of this tells you how to make the font manager actually replace the missing font with the new font that is chosen.  So all I can tell is that the font manager is useless, complete and utterly useless.

[MikeTO]

10 minutes ago, dehskins said:

Thanks, Mike. Unfortunately, none of this tells you how to make the font manager actually replace the missing font with the new font that is chosen.  So all I can tell is that the font manager is useless, complete and utterly useless.

The Fix button just opens the Font Manager. It's up to you to pick a replacement font. Once you do the screen display will change immediately. The font will still be missing but now Publisher can substitute the one you told it to.

Example. If the text was set in Adobe Garamond Pro and Preflight tells you it's missing but you don't have that font on this computer, you you have another Garamond, perhaps a free Google version, you could pick that font as the substitute. Publisher will still warn you that Adobe Garamond Pro is missing but it will display the text in the Google Garamond and print and export it with that font.

If you decide you really want to switch to the Google version, you could redefine the text style, or if it wasn't in a text style, use Find and Replace to change it.

Cheers

[carl123]

9 minutes ago, dehskins said:

none of this tells you how to make the font manager actually replace the missing font with the new font that is chosen

Font manager does not replace missing fonts.

It just temporarily substitutes them with a different font that you have available

To permanently replace a missing font, you can use the Find & Replace command (Text > Find) to search for the missing font(s) and replace them with another on your system or you can modify any text style applied to the text to change the font

 

[dehskins]

Thanks for being so clear. No wonder I'm confused. The documentation for preflight says the fixes are supposed to actually fix the preflight error.  Preflight continues to flag the error after the fix. Even though it has replaced the font. Affiinity is not recognizing that the font is actually replaced. When highlighting the font it still shows in the character panel as being the previous font. When I create assets out of this PDF the asset panel is full of errors because it is flagging a font that isn't even being displayed. I have to make sure I manually change every single instance where the flagged font was used. There should be a streamlined way to take care of this but it escapes me. I haven't been able to use find and replace for this either.

[dehskins]

39 minutes ago, carl123 said:

Font manager does not replace missing fonts.

It just temporarily substitutes them with a different font that you have available

To permanently replace a missing font, you can use the Find & Replace command (Text > Find) to search for the missing font(s) and replace them with another on your system or you can modify any text style applied to the text to change the font

 

Thanks, Carl. Find and replace doesn't work because Affinity Publisher does not see the font in question. I can replace it with any font in the font manager but the search within find and replace will not pick it up. This isn't an adequate fix because it is filled with errors. I can't search for a missing font, there is no way to reference it.

 

 

[carl123]

1. Hit the cog icon
2. Select Format
3. Use the drop down to display missing fonts

 

 

[dehskins]

6 minutes ago, carl123 said:

1. Hit the cog icon
2. Select Format
3. Use the drop down to display missing fonts

 

 

That is amazing Carl. You solved the problem for me. I didn't know that option existed. Thank you so much it was all fixed in an instant.