Publisher missing characters

[Gianni Becattini]

I receive the "Error missing characters" during Preflight every time I use a special character such a greek letter or an emoticon. The produced file seems to be good. Where am I wrong?

Thanks

[walt.farrell]

That message means you are using characters that don't exist in the font you're using. They may be picked up by some fallback mechanism, but they aren't what you've asked for, and that triggers the message.

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, LondonSquirrel said:

As this sort of thing pops up from time to time, this is a prime candidate for a better error message. Something along the lines of "these characters do not exist in the version of the font you are using". 

It's also explained in the Help, for anyone who checks there. I think your suggestion would be too long for the panel, especially in some translations. But perhaps something shorter, but more clear, could be developed

[Gianni Becattini]

I see, thanks. Thus, to solve the problem, you have to replace the character by using the Glyph browser, then selecting a precise character from a precise font, right?

For example, you insert the € symbol and immediately get the error. You need to find a suitable font and get the symbol from there with the glyph browser.

 

[walt.farrell]

2 minutes ago, Gianni Becattini said:

Thus, to solve the problem, you have to replace the character by using the Glyph browser, then selecting a precise character from a precise font, right?

For example, you insert the € symbol and immediately get the error. You need to find a suitable font and get the symbol from there with the glyph browser.

I don't think so.

You do need to find a font with that symbol. But then all you would need to do is highlight the text with that symbol, and change the Font in the Context Toolbar, or in the Character Panel.

Or, if you're happy with how it looks now, you could simply ignore the Preflight message and Export anyway.

[Pšenda]

3 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

I think your suggestion would be too long for the panel

At least in Windows, a detailed description of the detected error is displayed in Tooltip, which is a completely common and completely sufficient procedure - there is no need to write detailed and long descriptions directly in the listing.

 

Edited September 22, 2023 by Pšenda

[thomaso]

23 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

28 minutes ago, Gianni Becattini said:

Thus, to solve the problem, you have to replace the character by using the Glyph browser, then selecting a precise character from a precise font, right?

For example, you insert the € symbol and immediately get the error. You need to find a suitable font and get the symbol from there with the glyph browser.

I don't think so.

You do need to find a font with that symbol. But then all you would need to do is highlight the text with that symbol, and change the Font in the Context Toolbar, or in the Character Panel.

To me, on mac, there are two different workflows & results:

• The Affinity Glyph Browser lets me to insert a glyph + automatically get its corresponding font assigned in the text frame.

• The macOS glyph browser* does display the inserted glyph in Affinity but might not assign its font accordingly, depending on the used area to choose from. While there is one area which shows one specific glyph at a time in its various available fonts + font names, another area shows various glyphs but but glyph names, not font names. This may cause a "missing character" issue.
*a separate app, opens via the main menu -> keyboard system options, without leaving Affinity, as floating window.

[Gianni Becattini]

With the Glyph panel I could remove all the errors, thanks