![]() ![]() that should be fun.Support for a script might require certain changes to text stack components and changes to fonts. let's see how it does with the Recursive TTC file - four families, eight weights, plus italics - 64 fonts. On Windows 11 Sitka is supplied as two variable fonts, Regular and Italic. Note: This is on Windows 10 where Sitka is supplied as four TTC files. The image below is APub Export to PDF, and then exported to PNG from PDF-XChange Editor. So I used the Font Style dropdown to apply all the correct styles, and that seemed to stick - the PDF output is correct.īut do not touch a Bold or Italic button or it will all return to Small.Īffinity wacko style group handling strikes again. So for example highlight some Sitka Display text and press the Italic button and you now have Sitka Small Italic. The Bold and Italic buttons instantly turned the family/group back to Small. So I selected each of the other optical size four-line R/I/B/BI groups and applied the correct family/group - Text, Subheading, Heading, Display, and Banner - with the intention to use the Bold and Italic buttons to finish the corrections. Italic and Bold still applied - but all optical sizes were now the just Small font styles. I suspected that this may confuse APub, and it did.įirst, when I pasted the correct working text from LibreOffice into APub,Īll of the various Sitka font optical sizes (groups) were changed to Sitka Small. So all Regular styles for the six various optical sizes are in Sitka.ttc.Īll Italic styles for the six optical sizes are in SitkaI.ttc.Īll Bold styles for the six optical sizes are in SitkaB.ttc.Īll Bold Italic styles for the six optical sizes are in SitkaZ.ttc. On Windows 10, Sitka comes in four TTC font collection files - grouped by R/I/B/BI. Six R/I/B/BI style groups - one for each optical size. The optical sizes are: Small, Text, Subheading, Heading, Display, and Banner Six optical sizes with two weights, Regular and Bold, plus the italics. Wanted to see what would happen with the Windows 10 Sitka fonts (4 TTC files). Any input on this topic would be greatly appreciated, as it could help the community to better understand and address these situations. Perhaps others have encountered similar problems and found other solutions or additional explanations. I would therefore encourage to explore this subject further. Unlike other less powerful software or software suites such as Adobe Suite, QuarkXpress, Office 365, etc., Affinity encounters difficulties in correctly exporting a growing number of files due to these fonts, which are increasingly present in productions.Īdmittedly, having to use workarounds to overcome this deficiency by converting these collections and variable fonts to older generation fonts using software such as Hight-Logic Font Creator is not taken very seriously by our customers, who then tend to think that our tool is a bit limited. It would appear that the challenges encountered by the Affinity suite with the Open Type Collection and Variable Fonts font formats mainly revolve around the management of PDF files. Patrick’s comment is regarding variable fonts, not font collections. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instructions for obtaining the Angsana fonts These instructions should be applicable to recent versions of Windows, such as Windows 10 or Windows 11, but bear in mind that the exact steps may vary slightly depending on your specific version of the operating system. Once these steps have been completed, the Angsana font should be available in applications that use fonts on your system. Select ‘Download fonts for all languages’.įollow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation process. Open Windows ‘Settings’ (you can use the keyboard shortcut Windows +I).įind ‘Thai Supplemental Fonts’ and click on it.Ĭlick on ‘Install’ to install the additional Thai fonts, including Angsana. If you are in a region where Thai fonts are required: In addition, the underline style is a combination of Angsana Regular with an underscore instead of Angsana Underline, and each of the 3 lines is separated instead of being continuous.Įach block of 3 lines of the PDF can now be modified with Adobe Acrobat Pro to give it Bold, Italic, Bold-italic styles. On the other hand, only the Regular style is displayed, whatever the style. The PDF file is now all in Angsana regardless of the font style. Not insurmountable but not straight forward. Thought is being given into the complications of fully supporting these fonts, particularly exporting to formats like PDF and SVG, which do not support variable fonts natively and therefore need to convert them to traditional fonts at export. ![]()
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