Staff Pauls Posted April 30, 2024 Staff Posted April 30, 2024 dont splash the cash just yet kenmcd, Alfred, jussi and 2 others 5 Quote
Hangman Posted April 30, 2024 Posted April 30, 2024 2 minutes ago, Pauls said: dont splash the cash just yet Is that a hint of things to come? Quote Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 Affinity Designer Beta 2.6.0.3027 | Affinity Photo Beta 2.6.0.3027 | Affinity Publisher Beta 2.6.0.3027 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse
Alfred Posted April 30, 2024 Posted April 30, 2024 30 minutes ago, AffinityMakesMeWonder said: FontCreator is 200 bucks, and only Windows… Wonder if FontCreator work in CrossOver Mac edition? The Home edition of FontCreator is only 50 bucks. Someone posted to the High-Logic Forums to say that they were successfully running FontCreator on Wine (specifically, the WineBottler combo) but that was more than a decade ago, so it make not work on recent versions of macOS. There are several options for running Windows on a Mac, but they all require a Windows licence. And if you want to use an alternative to Boot Camp or VirtualBox, you’ll have to throw even more money at the problem. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
Alfred Posted April 30, 2024 Posted April 30, 2024 Just now, Alfred said: There are several options for running Windows on a Mac, but they all require a Windows licence. Please see: https://www.high-logic.com/font-editor/fontcreator/tutorials/running-fontcreator-on-a-mac Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
Affinity-Inspiration Posted April 30, 2024 Posted April 30, 2024 34 minutes ago, AffinityMakesMeWonder said: If I understand you correct here, we could buy FontCreator, load our Variable Fonts there, “unlock” the hidden axes and then resave the fontfiles - then we freely could reveal whatever axes we want. Is that correct? FontCreator is 200 bucks, and only Windows… Wonder if FontCreator work in CrossOver Mac edition? Sounds interesting, but a lot of work. Might be able to do that in XCode? I’ll have a look. Quote iPad Mini 6. 256GB. My GoTo design platform. M2 Mac Mini. 24GB. LG 4K Monitor. + Samsung Monitor 2. Windows 10 Toshiba. Windows 11 Parallels on Mac. Publisher. Designer. Photo for Mac, PC & iOS. FCP, DaVinci, CapCut, Luma Fusion. etc. @Affinity-Inspiration on YouTube.
Affinity-Inspiration Posted April 30, 2024 Posted April 30, 2024 1 minute ago, Alfred said: Please see: https://www.high-logic.com/font-editor/fontcreator/tutorials/running-fontcreator-on-a-mac Parallels runs on Mac and runs windows flawlessly. I’m running W11 on it. Just because I can. Alfred 1 Quote iPad Mini 6. 256GB. My GoTo design platform. M2 Mac Mini. 24GB. LG 4K Monitor. + Samsung Monitor 2. Windows 10 Toshiba. Windows 11 Parallels on Mac. Publisher. Designer. Photo for Mac, PC & iOS. FCP, DaVinci, CapCut, Luma Fusion. etc. @Affinity-Inspiration on YouTube.
Alfred Posted April 30, 2024 Posted April 30, 2024 6 minutes ago, Affinity-Inspiration said: Parallels runs on Mac and runs windows flawlessly. I’m running W11 on it. Just because I can. I see that your forum signature only mentions your iPad model. What are your Mac and PC specs? (I’m guessing that you need a pretty beefy Mac for a smooth experience with the Affinity apps running under Parallels Desktop.) Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
AffinityMakesMeWonder Posted April 30, 2024 Posted April 30, 2024 1 hour ago, Alfred said: The Home edition of FontCreator is only 50 bucks. Someone posted to the High-Logic Forums to say that they were successfully running FontCreator on Wine (specifically, the WineBottler combo) but that was more than a decade ago, so it make not work on recent versions of macOS. There are several options for running Windows on a Mac, but they all require a Windows licence. And if you want to use an alternative to Boot Camp or VirtualBox, you’ll have to throw even more money at the problem. Thanks! But, I'm already running 15 critical Win-apps on my MacBook Pro M1 thru CrossOver (doesn't demand a Win-license). Apps like making genealogy research, Xara Xtreme Studio, Tag'n'Rename etc... Not all apps we need is available on Mac... Have you seen CrossOver? https://www.codeweavers.com Alfred 1 Quote Happy guy playing around with the Affinity Suite - really love typographic, photographing, Color & forms, AND, old Synthesizers from the 1980-1990’s… Macbook Pro 16” M1 2021 connected to an 32” curved 5K external display, iPad Pro 12.9” M1 2021, iPad Pro 10.5” A10X 2017, iMac 27” 5K/i7 late 2015 - also an Lenovo iMac i7 clone with 24” touch screen and Windows 10…
Affinity-Inspiration Posted April 30, 2024 Posted April 30, 2024 2 hours ago, Alfred said: I see that your forum signature only mentions your iPad model. What are your Mac and PC specs? (I’m guessing that you need a pretty beefy Mac for a smooth experience with the Affinity apps running under Parallels Desktop.) My Mac is an M2 Mac Mini with 26GB RAM. A 4K Samsung monitor. It has a HD monitor as well, as a second screen. I have Parallels running Windows 11 on the Mac. It’s only problem is it won’t fetch Affinity updates. I have to do that by hand, but otherwise it runs fine. There is some issue between Parallels/Windows/Affinity auto updates that no one seems to looking at. In general I use the Mac versions, and the iPad mini 6 mostly. I also have an ancient Toshiba L630 running Windows 10, which does still run the Affinity apps, but very slowly. :-). It's just a test bed. Alfred 1 Quote iPad Mini 6. 256GB. My GoTo design platform. M2 Mac Mini. 24GB. LG 4K Monitor. + Samsung Monitor 2. Windows 10 Toshiba. Windows 11 Parallels on Mac. Publisher. Designer. Photo for Mac, PC & iOS. FCP, DaVinci, CapCut, Luma Fusion. etc. @Affinity-Inspiration on YouTube.
R C-R Posted April 30, 2024 Posted April 30, 2024 11 hours ago, kenmcd said: In FontCreator you need to open the panel below what you see axes above. Open Axis Properties - see image below where I have highlighted the setting. So any idea why I can always see all 13 axes & some others can sometimes see them too? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
Staff Pauls Posted April 30, 2024 Staff Posted April 30, 2024 I think it may be some sort of internal consistency problem - logged for a dev to look into R C-R 1 Quote
Hangman Posted April 30, 2024 Posted April 30, 2024 1 minute ago, R C-R said: So any idea why I can always see all 13 axes & some others can sometimes see them too? FWIW, I checked the Roboto Flex font file you uploaded and the other eight axes are shown as 'Hidden' so it's definitely not the font, having said that all axes are available when using the same font in other software but I can only assume that is because some software supports 'Additional Variations'... Quote Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 Affinity Designer Beta 2.6.0.3027 | Affinity Photo Beta 2.6.0.3027 | Affinity Publisher Beta 2.6.0.3027 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse
Affinity-Inspiration Posted April 30, 2024 Posted April 30, 2024 Mac. Different fonts, different results. It all looks good to me as that's as it should be. Quote iPad Mini 6. 256GB. My GoTo design platform. M2 Mac Mini. 24GB. LG 4K Monitor. + Samsung Monitor 2. Windows 10 Toshiba. Windows 11 Parallels on Mac. Publisher. Designer. Photo for Mac, PC & iOS. FCP, DaVinci, CapCut, Luma Fusion. etc. @Affinity-Inspiration on YouTube.
R C-R Posted April 30, 2024 Posted April 30, 2024 20 minutes ago, Hangman said: FWIW, I checked the Roboto Flex font file you uploaded and the other eight axes are shown as 'Hidden' so it's definitely not the font, having said that all axes are available when using the same font in other software but I can only assume that is because some software supports 'Additional Variations'... Where are they shown as hidden? Also, what other software are you using that offers all 13 axes? Probably not relevant but I did a quick check in a Rich Text document in TextEdit version 1.15 on my Mac & that app does not support variable fonts at all. Pages.app supports the preset defaults but does not offer any axes for adjustment. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
kenmcd Posted April 30, 2024 Posted April 30, 2024 5 hours ago, AffinityMakesMeWonder said: If I understand you correct here, we could buy FontCreator, load our Variable Fonts there, “unlock” the hidden axes and then resave the fontfiles - then we freely could reveal whatever axes we want. Is that correct? Yes. But it does appear (hinted) they may be enabling the option to view all axes. So wait a bit. Also, if you have any experience with Python it is relatively easy to do - with zero cost. Quote
kenmcd Posted April 30, 2024 Posted April 30, 2024 46 minutes ago, R C-R said: So any idea why I can always see all 13 axes & some others can sometimes see them too? No idea. And I cannot test with your example doc to try and guess what is going on. Beta testing can be an adventure. 🙂 walt.farrell 1 Quote
Hangman Posted April 30, 2024 Posted April 30, 2024 38 minutes ago, R C-R said: Where are they shown as hidden? FontGoggles... 38 minutes ago, R C-R said: Also, what other software are you using that offers all 13 axes? Webflow… StuartRc and R C-R 1 1 Quote Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 Affinity Designer Beta 2.6.0.3027 | Affinity Photo Beta 2.6.0.3027 | Affinity Publisher Beta 2.6.0.3027 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse
kenmcd Posted April 30, 2024 Posted April 30, 2024 2 hours ago, R C-R said: So any idea why I can always see all 13 axes & some others can sometimes see them too? Thought about this a bit... You are on macOS - and the macOS font handling is being used. So it could be an odd interaction with that causing all the axes to show. Are the only users who can see all the axes, including the "hidden" ones, all on macOS? Quote
kenmcd Posted April 30, 2024 Posted April 30, 2024 1 hour ago, Hangman said: FontGoggles FontGoggles is another variable font testing tool funded by Google Fonts. And they mention using it (in the issues tracker) all the time. Unfortunately (for me) it is macOS-only. Quote
StuartRc Posted April 30, 2024 Posted April 30, 2024 I was a bit jealous when I saw 'FontGoggles' I was going to write 'Mac' on the front of my PC and see if I could download it! However...There are lots of alternatives | resources https://variablefonts.io/variable-font-resources/ Affinityconfusesme, Komatös, _Th and 1 other 4 Quote Affinity Version 1 (10.6) Affinity Version 2.5.7.2948 All (Designer | Photo | Publisher) Beta; 2.6.0.3106 OS:Windows 10 Pro 22H2 OS Build 19045.5371+ Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19060.1000.0 Rig:AMD FX 8350 and AMD Radeon (R9 380 Series) Settings Version 21.04.01 Radeon Settings Version 2020 20.1.03) + Wacom Intuous 4M with driver 6.3.41-1
Affinity-Inspiration Posted April 30, 2024 Posted April 30, 2024 1 hour ago, Hangman said: FontGoggles... Webflow… No. I’m on Mac. And I can only see the visible axes. Not the hidden ones. Quote iPad Mini 6. 256GB. My GoTo design platform. M2 Mac Mini. 24GB. LG 4K Monitor. + Samsung Monitor 2. Windows 10 Toshiba. Windows 11 Parallels on Mac. Publisher. Designer. Photo for Mac, PC & iOS. FCP, DaVinci, CapCut, Luma Fusion. etc. @Affinity-Inspiration on YouTube.
Affinity-Inspiration Posted April 30, 2024 Posted April 30, 2024 Can’t seem to install variable fonts on the iPad? Quote iPad Mini 6. 256GB. My GoTo design platform. M2 Mac Mini. 24GB. LG 4K Monitor. + Samsung Monitor 2. Windows 10 Toshiba. Windows 11 Parallels on Mac. Publisher. Designer. Photo for Mac, PC & iOS. FCP, DaVinci, CapCut, Luma Fusion. etc. @Affinity-Inspiration on YouTube.
walt.farrell Posted April 30, 2024 Posted April 30, 2024 7 minutes ago, Affinity-Inspiration said: Can’t seem to install variable fonts on the iPad? Install them from the Affinity application Settings. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
A_B_C Posted April 30, 2024 Posted April 30, 2024 FWIW — Last time I tested (by the end of last year), FontCreator does not work in CrossOver. Alfred 1 Quote
R C-R Posted April 30, 2024 Posted April 30, 2024 1 hour ago, Affinity-Inspiration said: No. I’m on Mac. And I can only see the visible axes. Not the hidden ones. If you mean in FontGoggles & have installed it (the FontGoggles.dmg is here), you should see on the left in the Variations tab, a "Show hidden axes" button. That will display all 13 axes, including the 8 normally hidden 'parametric' ones. If you mean in any of the Affinity V5 betas, then for reasons as yet not completely understood some Mac users see only 5, some sometimes but not always see 13, & I (alone?) always see all 13. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
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