Maths fonts

[Miquel]

I need to use mathematical formulas in my designs. Is there any source of appropriate mathematical language text? Maybe i need to import it. i normally use the "character" menu (1) and special symbols (2), but are not appropriate enough and i miss some signs. 

(1) & (2) look screenshot

 

thanks

[Petar Petrenko]

You can try "Equation Editor" from MS Office, or "MathType" from http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathtype/

[MikeW]

I don't know if there is a means of getting MathType equations into AD as vector. The EPS files it can generate/export from Word do not import properly. AI opens them, as can CD.

 

A PDF from Word with equations doesn't import properly, even if I run it through Acrobat and embed the fonts (I think mainly because the font names change). One can use Acrobat to convert the fonts to curves, though.

 

If needing to use an equation editor--and there are a couple other than MathType--I would definitely install their trial versions and test export/import.

[Miquel]

thanks for your help, but then there is another question:  there are 214 fonts  in my computer right now, if i add any to that list is AD going to import it automatically ?

[Petar Petrenko]

I have 2000+ and there is no problem at all.  :)

[Miquel]

Thank you :)  !!!

[A_B_C]

If I may add this … whenever a font isn’t recognized immediately by Affinity Designer (which shouldn’t happen all too often), use Preferences > Miscellaneous > Reset Fonts, and everything will be fine …  :)

[Alfred]

If I may add this … whenever a font isn’t recognized immediately by Affinity Designer (which shouldn’t happen all too often), use Preferences > Miscellaneous > Reset Fonts, and everything will be fine …  :)

 

Thanks for the screenshot, Alex. I couldn't find that option in the current Windows beta build or the previous one, and I was pretty sure I wasn't looking in the wrong place!

 

Edit: I've just found the relevant entry from the AD on Windows 1.5.0.14 changelog:

 

• Added handling for Windows font collection changes (no need to reset fonts via Preferences now)

[Miquel]

I've found this way with Grapher  (in Mac utilities ) and Pages where text is converted to vector, what i was looking for.

1º make fórmula in Grapher, select the formula and copy it as PDF ( as Tiff can be exported directly to AD but not vectorial)

2º paste it in Pages. Select the formula in Pages copy it 

3º paste it in AD and the text is converted to vectorial curves in AD.

 

i,m going to have a look to your ways, Alfred and A_B_C, thanks in advance !!!

[Petar Petrenko]

Thank you :)  !!!

 

The only disadvantage is that your OS might work a little bit slower. So, I recomend any font manager for temporary instaling fonts.