Importing fonts successfully into Designer for iPad

[thomasbricker]

 I was just experimenting with importing fonts into affinity designer for iPad. Most of the fonts imported successfully. But there is one group of fonts that was not giving me the option to import. (DIN)  I could see them in my cloud Drive but when I went to select them,  Designer doesn’t give me a selector button and it says the files are zero k. 

Does that mean that these fonts read/write protected and cannot be copied it into the iPad?

Is there anyway around this?  What can I do? 

[stokerg]

14 hours ago, thomasbricker said:

Designer doesn’t give me a selector button and it says the files are zero k

Have you confirmed via the Files App that these fonts do have an actual size?  

If you can let me know the name of the font i'll see if i get the same issue.  I had quick search for DIN fonts but it appears there are a few with DIN in the title of the font.

[thomasbricker]

Hi,

 

The font in question is DIN. From FontShop International.

Comes in about 18 weights.

On my desktop the fonts have size. When I copy them to Dropbox they show up as being 0 KB.

[Alfred]

37 minutes ago, thomasbricker said:

On my desktop the fonts have size. When I copy them to Dropbox they show up as being 0 KB.

Is your desktop computer running macOS (or OS X) or Windows? Is the format of the files you’re copying *.otf, *.ttf, *.zip, or something else?

[thomasbricker]

Im running Mac OS. 

The fonts that copied over successfully did have the suffix .otf.

When I look at the DIN fonts, they dont have any suffix at all. Just their name. Like: DIN Regular.

Can I add a suffix to them to make them work? And if so, what should it be?

Why would they get stripped of their suffixes in the first place?

Weird!

 

[Alfred]

I’m on Windows, so I’m not really the best person to ask, but it might help if you could do a ‘Get Info’ in Finder on your Mac and post a screenshot here.

[thomasbricker]

 

looks like these fonts are postscript type one fonts. Maybe it is impossible to copy them?? 

[thomasbricker]

I’m back thinking that if I can find .otf versions of this font, it will import correctly. 

Ill let you know if it works. 

[R C-R]

18 hours ago, thomasbricker said:

looks like these fonts are postscript type one fonts. Maybe it is impossible to copy them?? 

Two of them, DIN Light & DIN Light 1, are probably duplicates & they are both in "Font Suitcase" files. While the Mac OS can use fonts 'packed' in font suitcase files, I don't think iOS can. To convert these files to something iOS can use, you could try the free trial of TransType 4, or do a web search for another app that can do that.

Also note that iOS already includes two DIN fonts, DIN Alternate & DIN Condensed. I am not sure how either would compare to DIN-Light, but maybe one of them would work for you?