Font caching issue?

[Potzo]

Hello, I've been having some weird issue of fonts duplicating in the list and showing up as an old version when exporting to PDF.

Specifically I've been having issue with Font Awesome font. They constantly update it, but it seems like Affinity Designer PDF export takes the older version?

Even stranger is that only my home PC has this issue, it works fine on my laptop. I used the same source file on both machines and only the PC produces this issue.

I also took the same font files from laptop and installed on the PC. Nope, same issue.

Don't tell me to use 'Text to Curves' because this is not the solution, it works fine on other Windows machine

This is font info in Acrobat, exported via Affinity on laptop:

And this is with PC:

Something strange is happening here.

Also Montserrat font has duplicated weights all though I removed/installed the latest font from Google Fonts several times.

You guessed it, it works fine on laptop.

I tried reinstalling Affinity Designer and also removing user settings, but none of it helped.

Thanks in advance.

[Potzo]

Here's example on how PDF looks generated on one PC (broken)

And here's on the second one:

 

[Alfred]

On 9/22/2018 at 9:46 AM, Potzo said:

This is font info in Acrobat, exported via Affinity on laptop:

And this is with PC:

Something strange is happening here.

That isn’t the same font in both cases. The top one is using a PostScript (Type 1) font, but the bottom one is using a TrueType (CID-keyed) font.

[Potzo]

2 minutes ago, αℓƒяє∂ said:

That isn’t the same font in both cases. The top one is using a PostScript (Type 1) font, but the bottom one is using a TrueType (CID-keyed) font.

I use the same OTFs on both PCs. That's why I am confused on how it generates the PDF

[Potzo]

FIXED!
In short, it was a Windows problem on this PC. After Creators Update they handle fonts really weird.
If you try to manually view fonts installed on your system, it will open up default preview mode. Even with explorer.

I managed to actually view the fonts files installed by using %systemroot%/fonts via start.

It turns out I installed fa fonts (ttfs) on this PC way before I did newer font files on the laptop (otf).
And Windows keeps all the versions along with the new ones for some reason. That's why I had problems with some other fonts being duplicated and showing up that way in Affinity.

These were being used:

So, in order to fix it is to remove all your duplicates (search for _0, _1, _2 etc.) and old Font Awesome fonts.
After that you have to follow these steps to rebuild the font cache.

So, this is some issue going on with Windows and lets hope Microsoft is aware of it.
Hopefully this helps someone.