Working with text

Text objects contain both character and paragraph elements, making it easy to modify standard text attributes such as font, size, format, and alignment. All text types have quick access settings on the context toolbar and supporting panels and dialogs for more extensive, advanced options.

When performing text editing, Publisher supports all standard text selection and formatting techniques and shortcuts.

The unique features of artistic text, frame text and path text are discussed in the Artistic text, Frame text, Text on a path and Shape text topics.

If you're opening Affinity documents or vector images created on a different computer to the one that you are using, the original fonts used may be missing from your computer. If so, you'll get a Missing Fonts warning indicating which fonts are missing. The font will be substituted for a replacement system font.

When text using the missing font is selected in your publication, its font name will be prefixed with a '?' on the context toolbar and on the Character panel.

You can source the original fonts yourself or use Window>Font Manager to substitute for a preferred font.

When opening a document which uses a downloadable font (not installed locally in macOS by default), you'll get a prompt to download it—simply click Download to install to macOS. Affinity Publisher will then use the installed font as it would with any other font.

To select text objects for formatting:

With the Move Tool selected, do one of the following:
- Click a text object to make formatting changes to all the text within the text object.
- Double-click a text object to make formatting changes to sections of text within the text object.
With either of the text tools selected, click a text object to make formatting changes to sections of text within the text object.

To locate missing fonts:

Do one of the following:

Step through instances one at a time:
1. Select Window>Font Manager.
2. Select the missing font.
3. Click Locate as necessary. Searching loops back to the start of your document when the end is reached.
View an interactive list of all instances:
1. From the Find and Replace panel's Find field:
  1. Delete any existing text in the field.
  2. Select Reset Format.
  3. Select Format.
2. In the Choose Format dialog, next to Font family:
  1. Select Missing Fonts from the second pop-up menu.
  2. Select a font from the first pop-up.
  3. Click OK.
3. On the Find and Replace panel, click Find.
4. Select a search result to view the corresponding location.

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