Unsupported characters used font; Affinity Publisher; waarschuwing font manager

[AvdB]

Goedemorgen,

Ik heb een font in Affinity Publisher "Frasa Regular" die bij sommige tekens "Unsupported characters used" weergeeft in de FONT MANAGER. Zou dit te maken kunnen hebben met het feit dat ik het originele font niet heb aangekocht, maar gedownload heb via een free-font-website? 

Maar waarom ziet mijn Pdf-bestand er dan wel goed uit? Kan de drukker hier nog wat mee? Of moet ik het originele font aanschaffen? Zie ook de printscreen die ik hierbij voeg.

Graag uw zienswijze! Veel dank!

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Good Morning,

I have a font in Affinity Publisher “Frasa Regular” that displays “Unsupported characters used” in the FONT MANAGER for some characters. Could this be due to the fact that I did not purchase the original font, but downloaded it from a free-font website? 

But then why does my Pdf file look fine? Can the printer still do something with this? Or should I buy the original font? See also the printscreen hereby.

[lacerto]

In general I would say that you should at least make sure that you use legally licensed fonts 🙂 

But apart from that, Affinity apps will use substitutes for missing glyphs, using a different font that does have those missing glyphs, and if you cannot spot where this happens, you might be satisfied with the outcome. You can probably see which fonts have been used for substitutes by e.g. by copy pasting text to Microsoft Word, or more easily, by exporting to PDF and checking the font list in your PDF viewer (like free version of Adobe Reader), or by opening the resulting PDF in your Affinity app.

It is much a matter of personal preference, whether missing glyphs should be clearly shown as e.g. squares ("no glyph" [.notdef] symbol of the font), or as substitutes. I personally prefer indicating a problem rather than software trying to resolve a problem on its own, because these kinds of subsitutions are likely to go unnoticed (in a hurry), but fire back when finally noticed...

UPDATE: Note that by using Preflight check of Affinity Publisher, you can spot which exact glyphs are substituted. As for printing, the fonts used for substitutes are included in e.g. PDF export, so technically this should not be a problem (if not aesthetically, or ethically...)