iambia Posted February 11, 2018 Posted February 11, 2018 Good day to you. Would there happen to be copies of Photo and Designer that are not sandboxed so that more fonts can be used with the programs? Currently, if I go over a certain amount of fonts, the program won't allow me to open or save files. I can create a new file, but can't save it. Past files, won't open. Quote ----------------------------------------i am everything. i am nothing therefore, i can be anything
Staff DWright Posted February 12, 2018 Staff Posted February 12, 2018 Hi iambia, Our apps do not have any fonts within them but rather they access the installed fonts on your operating system and being sandboxed will not restrict accessing all of the installed fonts, If you have a very large number of installed fonts this can cause issued as they have to be loaded into memory when the computer starts. Quote
iambia Posted February 12, 2018 Author Posted February 12, 2018 The reason I asked this is because the Affinity programs do have a problem with loading fonts beyond a certain amount. And I was told it might be because of the sandboxing features. I have been having this issue with Photo and Designer. I learned about it possibly being the fonts through this forum. When I reduced the amount of fonts that are active, Affinity behaved. Over a certain amount, the program would not allow me to save or open previous files I had created. It would tell me that I do not have permission to perform the action. Quote ----------------------------------------i am everything. i am nothing therefore, i can be anything
Staff DWright Posted February 12, 2018 Staff Posted February 12, 2018 How many fonts do you have installed on your computer Quote
iambia Posted February 12, 2018 Author Posted February 12, 2018 A little over 10,000. BUT, I also noticed from others in the forums that the number for them might be different when the error occurs. Quote ----------------------------------------i am everything. i am nothing therefore, i can be anything
Staff DWright Posted February 13, 2018 Staff Posted February 13, 2018 That is quite a lot of fonts to have installed as this can effect the performance of your computer if it has below 8Gb of RAM as the fonts are loaded into memory when your computer and if you search the web regarding font issues the most fonts people have is between 600 and 1800 installed. do you have a font manager installed as this will allow you to activate and deactivate the fonts as they are required. Quote
firstdefence Posted February 13, 2018 Posted February 13, 2018 You don't have access to the Sunway TaihuLight super computer do you lol! Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
iambia Posted February 13, 2018 Author Posted February 13, 2018 5 hours ago, DWright said: That is quite a lot of fonts to have installed as this can effect the performance of your computer if it has below 8Gb of RAM as the fonts are loaded into memory when your computer and if you search the web regarding font issues the most fonts people have is between 600 and 1800 installed. do you have a font manager installed as this will allow you to activate and deactivate the fonts as they are required. I have a font manager, yes. As for my machine: 2.9 GHz Intel Core i7 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 Intel HD Graphics 530 1536 MB 5 hours ago, firstdefence said: You don't have access to the Sunway TaihuLight super computer do you lol! Shhhh. Don't tell. LOL. Quote ----------------------------------------i am everything. i am nothing therefore, i can be anything
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