Missing fonts in opening a PDF not missing

[MickRose]

I don't know if this is a bug or not but in all the Affinity programs when I open a PDF I usually get a font missing message like this. It lists supposedly missing fonts & then suggests the same font (which are on my system) as a replacement. This has happened since the first Affinity release & shows no sign of going away. It's not a big deal, just annoying.

[fde101]

They could be different versions of those fonts, possibly from a different foundry/supplier?

[Steps]

You should consider posting this to the bug section of the forum.

To the topic: This works a expected on my site. I used Bahnschrift as a custom OpenType font and on another system Publisher complained about that by trying to open the PDF export.

After installing the font in the System Publisher displayed a hint "Updating font cache". When I open the document now it says that all fonts are matched ("All the fonts used by the document are available") when I re-import my PDF export.

So I don't think it's a general bug.

EDIT:
But one thing I wondered about is since I told Publisher to embed the font into the PDF it should take it from the document instead of wanting me to install it into the system... Is this maybe a bug?
@MickRose Do you embed the font into your PDF?

[Alfred]

29 minutes ago, Steps said:

EDIT:
But one thing I wondered about is since I told Publisher to embed the font into the PDF it should take it from the document instead of wanting me to install it into the system... Is this maybe a bug?

No, it isn’t a bug. It’s a missing feature: none of the Affinity apps can interpret the fonts embedded in PDF files.

[Steps]

2 minutes ago, αℓƒяє∂ said:

No, it isn’t a bug. It’s a missing feature: none of the Affinity apps can interpret the fonts embedded in PDF files.

Thank you for clarify that.

[MickRose]

Acrobat 10 is reading the Constantia font as Truetype, embedded subset. My system is using Constantia as a TTF font. I know the whole TTF/OTF can be a bit uncertain but I think Constantia is a Microsoft supplied font and I wouldn't have thought there were different versions of it. It would be good if the TTF/OTF/Type 1 information was provided by the Affinity software. Even the Publisher Font Manager makes no reference to the type of font being used.