olly Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Hi I use affinity for scientific data. Is there a way to use the symbol font? I need greek letters..... thank you for your help always fast! :) olly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 I have various free fonts installed on my system, a Mac. Some of the Greek character fonts work in AD, other do not, or only partially. If I use the Mac character panel, most of the math symbols can be transferred into AD after being typed in a text editor, copied and pasted. The greek characters mostly fail. I have no clue why. They show up in AD as "Apple Symbols" when they work, and "!Apple Symbols" when they don't. Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 Many fonts include the Greek alphabet. You do not need to use the Symbol font for this unless you want to. If you are using a Mac, you can open the Character Viewer as explained here to show this. Expand it as shown in step 3, then click on the gear icon in the top left corner, & choose "Customize List" from the choices. Scroll down to the European Alphabetic Scripts section & click on the box next to Greek. Click done. Now click on Greek in the list on the left & you should see the full range of Greek characters. The basic Greek alphabet begins at Unicode code point U+0391 for Α (capital alpha) & ends at U+03C9 for lower case ω (omega). With the Character Viewer open in Affinity, you can double-click on any character it shows & that character will be entered at the caret insertion point of any active Frame or Art text. You can select the font in the normal way in Affinity. To get you started, attached is an AD document with the Greek alphabet as art text in five fonts: Apple Symbols, Arial, Trebuchet MS, Roboto, & Microsoft San Serif. If you have these fonts installed on your system you should see each block of text displayed in those fonts. With any block selected with the Move tool, from the Context toolbar you can select any other font from the popup to see if they include these characters. It's all Greek to me.afdesign Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V23.0 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olly Posted January 13, 2017 Author Share Posted January 13, 2017 thanks! the control+command+space bar is a really fast trick!!!!! thank you a lot!!!! as always I knew I can count on your help! :D :D :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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