DesignNorth Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 I was using Adobe InDesign CS6 with Font Agent Pro 9.7.0 on a Mac OS10.14.6 that also has Font Book. I am slowly learning how to convert from InDesign to Affinity Publisher v1.10.5. A few fonts (Officiana Serif, Benquiat Gothic, etc) are active in FAP and I can use them in InD, but they do not show up in the font palette in Affinity. Have to finish a job tomorrow and need to use one of those fonts! I did find a tip to change Font Agent Preferences/Activator and deselect the Auto Activation for "only for Adobe and Quark apps". That changed nothing. What can I do to find and activate them in Affinity Publisher? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 10 hours ago, DesignNorth said: What can I do to find and activate them in Affinity Publisher? Did you restart Publisher after you made the change to Font Agent Pro's 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 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesignNorth Posted May 29 Author Share Posted May 29 Walt, Yes, I did. And rebooted. I contacted Font Agent support and they said it was not their problem. It had to be the Affinity app. I tried to drag the fonts into the Mac Font Book app window and that did not take! I also dragged the complete font folder into Library/Fonts hoping that might work. No change. Surely this cannot be that difficult to fix? What else can I do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 Sorry, I have no other ideas right now. 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 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 2 hours ago, DesignNorth said: I tried to drag the fonts into the Mac Font Book app window and that did not take! What exactly do you mean by "not take"? Was there an error message? Did anything happen at all? If you right-click on one of the fonts, do you get an "Open With > Font Book" choice? If you do & try that, what happens? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.5 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderings Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 I would be very careful with fonts, a wonky one can screw up your whole system. Don't ask how I know that. I would remove the font from all but one location, trying to active them in various apps and through the system be causing problems to start. Secondly when you active a font in Font Agent Pro are you seeing those fonts active in other apps like Word, Pages, Mail or Outlook? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 1 minute ago, wonderings said: I would be very careful with fonts, a wonky one can screw up your whole system. Don't ask how I know that. How do you know that? 🙂 Actually I am curious. The last time I had a font install affect the OS was installing a variable OTF on Win10. It really did not like it. So, what font was it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderings Posted May 30 Share Posted May 30 18 hours ago, kenmcd said: How do you know that? 🙂 Actually I am curious. The last time I had a font install affect the OS was installing a variable OTF on Win10. It really did not like it. So, what font was it? This was some years ago, but an installed font was corrupt or created a conflict with a system font. All the fonts in the OS went bonkers and was either missing or gibberish. Thankfully I have a TimeMachine backup so was able to restore to an hour before I loaded the font. Not sure what font was anymore, it was not really something with a specific font, more a corrupted font that effected system wide fonts. kenmcd 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff stokerg Posted May 31 Staff Share Posted May 31 Hi @DesignNorth, I just installed a trial of Font Agent Pro 10 and any fonts I install via it and activate, are shown in Publisher V1 and Publisher V2. So I can't replicate it but I am using Sonoma and not Mojave. One thing I should mention if you are running Publisher 1.10.5, then you should install the 1.10.6 update, which was the last update for V1. I doubt it will help with this issue but you should be running the latest version of V1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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