preahkumpii Posted August 9, 2016 Share Posted August 9, 2016 I would love to see fonts that are added to the system dynamically loaded in the open Affinity programs and available for use immediately. It is very cumbersome to have to save all your open documents and reopen Affinity to make use of new fonts. Thanks for the programs. They are awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 9, 2016 Share Posted August 9, 2016 I would love to see fonts that are added to the system dynamically loaded in the open Affinity programs and available for use immediately. +1 Serif PagePlus does this. It would be good to see Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo doing the same. Even the free LibreOffice Writer has this functionality. 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...
Staff MEB Posted August 9, 2016 Staff Share Posted August 9, 2016 Hi preahkumpii, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) Go to Affinity Designer Preferences, Miscellaneous section and press Reset Fonts to reload the fonts without having to close documents/Affinity. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
preahkumpii Posted August 9, 2016 Author Share Posted August 9, 2016 Awesome. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 9, 2016 Share Posted August 9, 2016 Go to Affinity Designer Preferences, Miscellaneous section and press Reset Fonts to reload the fonts without having to close documents/Affinity. This is yet another of those options which is rather too well hidden! Having said that, it works fine for adding a font but the current AD on Windows beta version crashes if I unload/uninstall a font and then visit the point in the font name dropdown list where the font previously appeared; it also crashes if I try to modify a text object which used that font. 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...
Staff MEB Posted August 9, 2016 Staff Share Posted August 9, 2016 We are aware of a few font issues on Windows but i'm not sure sure if that one in particular was already logged. The Mac version also has some issues when fonts are activated/managed through external apps (font managers). Sometimes it crashes. Hopefully all this should be improved as we move forward. The Windows Beta is still quite recent too and getting it to work on the myriad hardware configs available isn't a trivial task. Bear with us while we get there. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 9, 2016 Share Posted August 9, 2016 Thanks, Miguel. :) 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...
biscuit Posted August 9, 2016 Share Posted August 9, 2016 Great to find out about the reset fonts option. I tried to assign a shortcut to it, but couldn't find it. Am I right in assuming you can not create shortcuts for user preferences? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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