AD: List of missing fonts?

[aman204]

Guys, Any update or someone could guide if Affinity Designer allows to get the missing fonts now specifically for a PSD file?

[Manase RANDRIANTSITOHAINA]

Still happening on the windows version. A bit annoying when you share your workflow.

[walt.farrell]

On 2/6/2019 at 6:01 AM, aman204 said:

Guys, Any update or someone could guide if Affinity Designer allows to get the missing fonts now specifically for a PSD file?

Not sure what you mean by "get the missing fonts". You can certainly see which fonts are missing, which I think is the subject of this topic.

When importing the PSD file you should be able to tell the Affinity application not to do font substitution. Then in the Character panel you can change the selection from All to Missing, click on the font-name pull-down, and the names of the missing fonts will be displayed.

When opening native Affinity files that contain fonts you don't have, you will get a notification popup, which will go away. You can still see what ones are missing using the Character panel.

[Mango]

I've had to put this switch to Affinity on hold. I think the developers at Serif need more Prepress experience. It barely warns you that a font is missing and if you place a PDF in a document it doesn't warn you at all and just automatically changes the font for you quietly.

This and the fiddling around with bleed has killed the idea of switching for me for now.

 

[Mango]

On 2/14/2019 at 2:54 PM, walt.farrell said:

Not sure what you mean by "get the missing fonts". You can certainly see which fonts are missing, which I think is the subject of this topic.

When importing the PSD file you should be able to tell the Affinity application not to do font substitution. Then in the Character panel you can change the selection from All to Missing, click on the font-name pull-down, and the names of the missing fonts will be displayed.

When opening native Affinity files that contain fonts you don't have, you will get a notification popup, which will go away. You can still see what ones are missing using the Character panel.

it really needs a font management option, like AI where after the file is open you can go back and check. In illustrator this is the Type-> find font menu. Here it lists all the used fonts, any that are still missing and the ability to change all.

 

A missing font dialog in the character pallet is a bit useless. It's missing ok, what line has the missing font, is it just that line or somewhere else aswell? You would have to go hunting and checking every text box to see this way which is long winded.

Edited June 21, 2019 by Mango

[albertkinng]

Is still a problem today Oct 9 2022. I open documents with missing fonts and I don't get any pop up window! I know which fonts are, so for me, it's easy to replace them, but it would be cool that the app tells you or that you can have a window of missing fonts to replace them as soon as open them.

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, albertkinng said:

I open documents with missing fonts...

From your video, it looks like the file was already open, just minimized into the Dock. Are you sure it was closed?

[albertkinng]

On 10/9/2022 at 5:38 PM, R C-R said:

Are you sure it was closed?

Please focus on the second document that I'm opening. The first one was showing how it looks after opened and the second is opened for the first time to show that no pop up window let you know about the missing fonts.

[walt.farrell]

8 hours ago, albertkinng said:

Please focus on the second document that I'm opening. The first one was showing how it looks after opened and the second is opened for the first time to show that no pop up window let you know about the missing fonts.

As far as I can see your video does not show that the document has any missing fonts. A missing font would show as "? Font-name" (and in red, I think) but it looks like you have "! Font-name". If I've seen that correctly, it means you have the font installed, but you are using characters that the font doesn't have, which causes a substitution of some kind just for those characters.

[albertkinng]

I was able to solve the problem and I want to share it here, (skip to third paragraph if you don't want to read how I get there) so anyone with the same issue can work this out. My machine is a Mac so, If you have a PC, look for a way to achieve this based on your machine. First: What cause the issue? I replace a main HDD. Basically, my 4T HDD get full after years of great service. (I always use an external dual dock for work. The internal HDD is just for the OS and Apps. I learned that when Apple introduces the Hybrid internal HDDs back in the days and basically is the best way to run your Mac even today.) My Font libraries are managed by Right Font app and my project libraries are managed by Eagle App.

That way every project and their dependencies are safe with the library files no matter you put them. Eagle App even supports having your library in the cloud (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.) as well, but Speed is not on your side if you decided to go that way. I copy the libraries (Right Font and Eagle) to the new HDD and restarted the Mac. The problem with the fonts start happening right away. I open Affinity Files and fonts were missing and even Apps that basically show your project wasn't even showing up fonts previews as well.

Here's what I did to fix the problem, I open Terminal app and type: 

rm -R ~/Library/Application\ Support/RightFont

That basically clean up the cache files of the Font Manager and let you install the libraries again after a restart.

Then I open the terminal again and type this:

sudo atsutil databases -remove

What this does is simple. It makes the Mac start all over again to create the database so all the fonts and other elements are search from scratch, so you don't get the missing font's scenario. To finish, I restarted the Mac and everything returned to normal.

Conclusion:

The issue wasn't provoked by Affinity Apps, it was directly related with the Mac and the new database structure, So, I hope you can be helped with this explanation in case you start having that issue too.

Kind Regards.