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I recently installed and used AIFont, a variable font with 500 different variants. I have used many (probably between 50 and 100) of these variants to typeset a poem, sometimes on a character-by-character basis (see screenshot below). 

When I try to export a PDF from the file containing this poem, something which previously took around 10 seconds, it now breezes through the first 75% in a few seconds, and then stalls. I have waited an hour or two, but it never gets beyond 75%.

If I cancel the export and try again, Publisher just freezes (see second screenshot).

Seems this is a bug in Publisher. Anyone able to offer any info or advice (other than "don't use that font)? I need to send this book to print today, but am currently unable to get a PDF from it.

 

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You could try converting the document to curves and see if that will export.
So no text, no fonts to embed.

Bizarre font.
Not really a "variable" font - as there is no actual variation of shapes.

It is basically 500 static fonts in one "variable" font file.
Each setting (1-500) is a condition, and each condition swaps all the glyphs (using rlig).
So each setting is a full set of all the characters, or basically a separate font.

Over 50,000 glyphs in the v1 font on the demo website.
If you are using the v2 demo font, or the commercial version - you could have even more.
And Affinity apps have problems with that as they appear to work thru all the glyphs.

If nothing has happened in "an hour or two"...
My guess is your only option is to try converting to curves.

Using the actual separate static fonts would probably work, but obviously that is not going to happen quickly.

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Hi @Dan Sumption,

@kenmcd is correct about this font and we do have a similar issue with another font called SF Pro which also shows the same issue and is related to how many glyphs are included with that font.  To get your file to export, set the 'Embed Fonts option' on the export window to Text As Curves and then export, it should export straight away.

 

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