Affinity Designer 2.3.1 always complains about missing fonts

[deepblue]

Hello,
I created a document with 3 pages. The font used is Myriad Pro. Unfortunately, when I open the document in Affinity, I always get the message that the document is missing the Myriad Pro Light font. If I check and check that in the MacOS 14.3 font collection, everything is fine. What could be the reason? Can you display the object in which the font was used in Affinity Designer?

[walt.farrell]

You can find it in Publisher, but I don't think you can easily find it in Designer.

 

[kenmcd]

53 minutes ago, deepblue said:

The font used is Myriad Pro. Unfortunately, when I open the document in Affinity, I always get the message that the document is missing the Myriad Pro Light font. If I check and check that in the MacOS 14.3 font collection, everything is fine. What could be the reason?

Did you happen to use the Myriad Pro Semibold style?
The Light and Semibold styles are in an R/I/B/BI style group together,
and Affinity applications do not handle style groups correctly.
So it could simply be confused (annoyingly).

What Myriad Pro styles did you actually use in the document?
Would it be possible to post the document so we can take a look?

You could do as @walt.farrell suggested and open the doc in APub
and see if you can find where that font is used.

To test, you could also remove all the fonts you are not using, leaving installed only the fonts actually used, and see if the error goes away.
That would confirm that the application is simply confused.

Nothing wrong with the fonts.
Affinity apps just do not know how to handle style groups correctly.

[deepblue]

Hello Kenmcd

Yes I used the Myriad Pro Semibold style.
The font is called exactly Myryad Pro Semibold SemiCondensed.

I have now replaced all fonts with Myriad Pro Regular and now I can no longer see the missing font.

But what does that mean for me? Can't Affinity handle the fonts properly?

I bought the font to make full use of it and you would also like to use the Myryad Pro Semibold SemiCondensed.

Is the problem already known to Affinity Designer?

[deepblue]

This is exactly the error that occurs in version 2.3.1 and the current beta:

The Light and Semibold styles are in an R/I/B/BI style group together,
and Affinity applications do not handle style groups correctly.

Can Serif fix the error or do I have to work differently?

[deepblue]

Isn't there a font manager in Affinity?
I have now found a few documents that also have the same problem. As soon as I open the document, I get the message: The document contains missing fonts.

However, the fonts were all installed properly and there are no problems with font management under MacOS 14.3.

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, deepblue said:

Isn't there a font manager in Affinity?

There is a function called Font Manager in Affinity Publisher, only. It helps with font management within a document. 

[deepblue]

I was now able to solve the problem with the missing font or style.
I loaded the document (8 pages in my case) that I created in Affinity Designer 2.3.1 directly into Affinity Publisher. There I could see that this one font or style was causing problems. In Publisher I was able to look at exactly the word that had the missing font. I marked a word “fat” in a sentence.

Here I assigned a new font style to Myriad Pro and simply saved the document. With new calls in Affinity Designer, the problem with the missing font disappeared.

I'm just wondering why the designer can't show me the missing font. Why do you have to go through the publisher first?

[walt.farrell]

16 minutes ago, deepblue said:

I'm just wondering why the designer can't show me the missing font. Why do you have to go through the publisher first?

Publisher has a number of enhancements for text processing. This is one of them.

[deepblue]

Maybe for a document with 8 pages I would prefer to have the publisher straight away
should use. But you're always smarter afterwards.

I always assumed that the Affinity Designer had the same options (for word processing) as the publisher. I hadn't worked with the publisher yet. Always use the designer 90% of the time. But for simple text documents I'll fuss a little more with Publisher.

walt.farrell
Thank you again for your great help and your patience with me