Font Manager Free

[Cilinia Looker]

MyDocument menu has no font manager menu item. Has it moved from its v1 location and I just can't find it, has it been removed (Heaven forfend!), or something on my installation only? Mac iMac 14,2 running Catalina.

I tried, after having managed to find it, in v2.03. but besides the list of fonts used in the document, the substitution and substitution Style column don't give any possibility. The only working option is finding the font. Am I doing something wrong?

Doing a search I ended up on the link I mention in the previous message. Then I found the help for v2 but it doesn't work as it says. Unless I am doing something wrong, the Font Manager widow only gives me the possibility to locate the font. If I want to replace it, the Substitution and Substitution Style columns (I suppose there is a drop-down menu on each column) do not open or react.

Unless I am doing something wrong, the Font Manager widow only gives me the possibility to locate the font. If I want to replace it, the Substitution and Substitution Style columns (I suppose there is a drop-down menu on each column) do not open or react.

Find & Replace might do what you want if you use the Format option to set the find field to one font & the relace field to another. However, when I tried this in V2.0.3 on my Mac, it worked only for some text layers ... & then it crashed the app when I tried to do that a second time.

Agreed that all these problems are still happening. Just want to give this a little bump to make sure this is counted as a high priority for the development team. Font management is a great idea that should be working.

There seems to be a issue still when using the inherited setting. Also when on the latest release, only two font weights (bold (500?), regular (300/400?) seem to be displayed even when all are enabled in the font manager.

Thank you for your feedback. To make things crystal clear and being able to follow up the case correctly to report if there are any bugs, kindly open up a new thread and give detailed information with screenshots of the settings you have done and see the error.

I saw that you added a resource manager to the latest beta, which makes a lot of sense to me. It would be very useful too if you could add a font manager like Publisher has too, though. It is hard to assess which fonts are missing from a designer document and know which ones I have to activate. I only get a small pop-up message when I open the document, but this not always complete if I use a lot of fonts, and I can not get it back when it disappears. I hope you could consider this?!

More and more I come to the conclusion that only Publisher and Photo should remain of the three programs.

The publisher should absorb the Designer tools and the trouble will be out of your head.

As of today, the designer has few vector tools, and even fewer vector tools, so it's better to transfer them to Publisher and there are only two programs left for development.

Not sure I agree. I never really use Photo, Designer and Publisher I use all the time. Designing vector illustrations and Assets is much easier with artboards than Pages, and certainly believe a full blown vector program should be part of the trilogy. What I find hard to work with sometimes, is that only for one specific feature you would need to switch to the other app, like a vector pencil tool that is missing in Photo, or the perspective and mesh transform tools that are in Photo but not Designer. The borders between the apps are sometimes arbitrary and might not be useful for all workflows. A more flexible system where I could pick and choose which modules and functions I really need to use together would really be my dream, just give me the toolbox with all the tools (when I have bought all the apps) and let me combine them in a modular way... I can dream, right??

...It is hard to assess which fonts are missing from a designer document and know which ones I have to activate. I only get a small pop-up message when I open the document, but this not always complete if I use a lot of fonts, and I can not get it back when it disappears. I hope you could consider this?!

Go to the Character Panel, switch the first dropdown on top left to Missing Fonts (it's located at the end of the list), then click the arrow on the next control on the right - it should display all missing fonts families.

And already. And we have a very nice show.

Of course, Photo as a separate program due to many other tools. Although Photo begs to add a few tools from the other two, eg Transparency Tool, and I can't understand why I can't create a bleed in Photo.

This really is a workflow issue. I believe that illustration or graphics are a very different thing than layout and graphic design. I think Publisher really took an interesting approach with their personas, so that you can actually access the corner tool or the vector brush by going to the Designer persona. However I do not use this functionality as much as i could, and often prefer working on graphics, logos etc in designer only and doing the layouts in Publisher. Perhaps that is because I am so used to working this way coming from Adobe. Fusing Publisher and Designer completely would not be a good thing in my opinion. It would make the program much more complicated and bloated. As I said I just need some elements to be present in all apps for consistency.

When working in Publisher, this would solve the continual transition from the Publisher persona to the Designer persona for the sole purpose of temporarily rounding corners or extending the outline.

I use Publisher almost 24 hours a day in my advertising company: we design logos, business cards, leaflets, advertising banners on cars, we cut them out of foil and use a laser plotter, etc.

So I spend a lot, a lot of time with Afiinity software, so that's why my observation is here.

Besides, Affinity still has a lot of bugs and shortcomings - but I would gladly give a lot more money to develop and refine the software.

Don't forget the raster tools from the pixel persona, the Appearance and Isometric panels, the export persona, and the fact that page-based documents created in Publisher cannot have artboards (even if opened in Designer) and that artboard-based documents created in Photo and Designer cannot have multiple pages unless first converted to page-based documents in Publisher.

So do we. However one thing that bugs with Serif is their lack interest (for better word) for RTL languages support. This should have been there from the beginning. Now V2 will be around the corner and I don't know how they are going to retrofit this (If they ever going to do it)....?

I don't agree with this assesment. I think it is very nice vector program that is fast and intuitive, but lacks some of more advanced features Illustrator has. With regards to vector brushes you are correct, and I do wish Serif would add more options in this regard into v2. I have worked with with Illustrator for several years, but always found it very cumbersome to work with. It has great features, but I never likes the basic path manipulation. I like this a lot better in AD. I guess it all comes down to personal preference, but I personally think Designer is the most original program of the three, as it is something between Illustrator and Photoshop. I find it very nice to work on designs, create iterations on multiple artboards, look reference images in one big space. Though Illustrator could potentially do this, it is just too sluggish for me. Publisher is great to have because I want to have an alternative to indesign as I need it for my job, but it is more like a light and quick version of indesign in many regards. As for Photo: I never really use Photo that much for my job, as I do hardly any photo work, and for the more lightweight tasks, I just use Designer...

I think it is very nice vector program that is fast and intuitive, but lacks some of more advanced features Illustrator has. With regards to vector brushes you are correct, and I do wish Serif would add more options in this regard into v2. I have worked with with Illustrator for several years, but always found it very cumbersome to work with. It has great features, but I never likes the basic path manipulation. I like this a lot better in AD.

Exactly. Designer is much more fun and appealing to work with (and this counts for a creative that wants to be creative) - you just meet the wall immediately if you have more advanced needs - or use the divide operator or a year ago expand stroke. The amount of manual work or workarounds is depressing. Working in Illustrator never was as fun but it has amazingly helpful features and results are equally amazing. CorelDRAW has the features too (CorelDRAW is for some reason rarely mentioned in here). I used it a lot as well because I liked working in it better and it too has amazing tools. Designer: zip zero nothing.

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