Font changed when exporting

[BarbaraSki]

Hi team!

There is a bug when exporting as a pdf in Affinity Publisher. All my fonts that were set to bold/black are exported as normal. Could you please help with that? Thank you.

 

Happy creating,

Barbara

[Hangman]

Hi @BarbaraSki,

Is the font in question static or variable? If the latter this will be because Variable fonts are not supported in Affinity apps so you would need to use a static version for the file to export correctly.

Also, note that the PDF spec doesn't support variable fonts...

If this is not the case, could you let us know which font is causing the issue for you?

[kenmcd]

6 hours ago, Hangman said:

Also, note that the PDF spec doesn't support variable fonts...

Does not matter. The PDF does not know it is a variable font.

 

@BarbaraSki What font is that?

The kerning/spacing on your heading is really bad. You could manually kern it to look better, or use a better font.

[Hangman]

27 minutes ago, kenmcd said:

Does not matter. The PDF does not know it is a variable font.

I perhaps worded that badly, what I meant was that the Affinity apps would have to convert the variable font to a legacy format or generate each static instance on export to a PDF file...

[BarbaraSki]

@Hangman Hi thanks for responding so quickly. I'm using Frank Ruhl Libre.

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Frank+Ruhl+Libre

Could you please let me know if this is variable? Sorry, I'm still learning, all is kind of new.

Do I need to change that font?

[Hangman]

Hi @BarbaraSki,

Thanks for the link...

When you download the font from Google Fonts and Unzip the file you 'should' see the following, i.e., both the single 'Variable Font'...

along with a folder labelled 'static'...

If you've installed the variable font, i.e., just the single .ttf file then you have the variable version installed. If this is the case, if you remove this in your font manager and then install all the static versions of Frank Ruhl Libre and reopen your Publisher file, it should automatically substitute the static versions for the variable version but if it doesn't because of the variable font settings used in your Publisher file you will need to re-apply the static versions accordingly...

Once you've done this you should find that exporting your Publisher file to a PDF will display the fonts correctly...

[BarbaraSki]

@Hangman it worked!!!

Thank you do much! 

What a good way to start Friday.

Really appreciate that you provided me with this solution 💐

[Hangman]

Hi @BarbaraSki,

That's really great to hear, I'm glad you have everything working again and that it's Friday, Yay!

That's absolutely no problem at all, happy I was able to help... 😀