Betsy Thinking Ink Press Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Hi, I'm new to Publisher am trying to customize text style settings. Our company uses Source San 3, regular weight for most body copy. So I am starting with the text style Body. When I edit Body, I can only find a field for Font family. I can select Source San 3, but not specify the weight. Affinity automatically selects the ultralight weight, and I can't figure out how to change that. I have tried formatting the text locally to be Regular and using Update Body, but that doesn't seem to work. I have also tried applying No Style to the text and using local formatting. Even though the document shows Source San 3 and Regular in the fields in the upper left, and visually it looks like the Regular weight, when I export the document as a PDF, the PDF shows the ultralight weight. Can you help? Regards, Betsy postcard back test mar 21.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Hi @Betsy Thinking Ink Press and welcome to the forums. I assume that you have installed the font in the variable version. The Affinity programs cannot handle this. You need to install the static version of the font. Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3296) AMD A10-9600P | dGPU R7 M340 (2 GB) | 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | Windows 10 Home 22H2 (1945.3803) Affinity Suite V 2.4 & Beta 2.(latest) Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator Interested in a robust (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Life is too short to have meaningless discussions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 49 minutes ago, Betsy Thinking Ink Press said: Affinity automatically selects the ultralight weight, and I can't figure out how to change that. 7 minutes ago, Komatös said: I assume that you have installed the font in the variable version. The Affinity programs cannot handle this. You need to install the static version of the font. I don’t see an UltraLight weight in the static set. The lightest is ExtraLight. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betsy Thinking Ink Press Posted March 21 Author Share Posted March 21 Hi, thank you for responding! Yes, sorry it's Extra Light, not ultralight. Source San 3 is a Google font set. I don't see a static version. I wonder if the Adobe version is static? We've used Source Sans in Creative Suite without issues in the past. I have a new computer and don't have all the same fonts that I used to. I also don't have a current Creative Suite license, but someone else at our press does, so I'll follow up with him. Appreciate the help! Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 5 minutes ago, Betsy Thinking Ink Press said: Appreciate the help! Here is a zip with the variable and static versions. Source_Sans_3.zip Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3296) AMD A10-9600P | dGPU R7 M340 (2 GB) | 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | Windows 10 Home 22H2 (1945.3803) Affinity Suite V 2.4 & Beta 2.(latest) Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator Interested in a robust (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Life is too short to have meaningless discussions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betsy Thinking Ink Press Posted March 21 Author Share Posted March 21 Wow, thank you Komatos! Komatös 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 8 minutes ago, Betsy Thinking Ink Press said: Wow You are welcome! Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3296) AMD A10-9600P | dGPU R7 M340 (2 GB) | 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | Windows 10 Home 22H2 (1945.3803) Affinity Suite V 2.4 & Beta 2.(latest) Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator Interested in a robust (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Life is too short to have meaningless discussions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 3 hours ago, Betsy Thinking Ink Press said: Source San 3 is a Google font set. I don't see a static version. Google Fonts are typically supplied in a set comprising variable font TTF files, a copy of the Open Font Licence, a Read Me file, and a subfolder containing static fonts. For Source Sans 3, the files are as follows: SourceSans3-VariableFont_wght.ttf SourceSans3-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf OFL.txt README.txt static [folder] The ‘static’ folder in this case contains 16 TTF files. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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