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Missing Font Warning
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Mon Oct 07, 2019 6:15 pmby Jim Simon
It would be useful if Resolve would throw up some kind of warning at the very least when opening a project that uses fonts not available on the system.
The ideal scene would be a dialog that allows us to choose which font to use instead, and to choose whether that replacement is permanent, or only for that editing session. (If the latter, then the project would attempt to use the original font the next time it's opened.)
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Mon Oct 07, 2019 6:49 pmby teamnoir
Seconded. Any warning is better than the mysterious failures and bad renders we get now.
Personally, I’d rather it were handled similar to missing assets.
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Wed Sep 23, 2020 10:11 pmby Roen Davis
I wonder if the missing font problem is being considered for improvement?
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Thu Sep 24, 2020 8:21 amby Jane Pescador
+1 for me
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Thu Sep 24, 2020 7:22 pmby Mel Matsuoka
+1
I've just opened a new general thread for documenting "silent" failures like this:
viewtopic.php?f=33&t=122398
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Tue Feb 23, 2021 3:06 pmby peterfox
+1 here
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Mon Mar 22, 2021 3:44 pmby Jim Simon
Version 17 has been officially released, and man what an incredible update!
BMD can't do everything we want in the "next version", so I wanted to bump this idea, which didn't make the cut for 17.
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Mon Mar 22, 2021 11:50 pmby AndrewKeil
+1
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Fri Jun 18, 2021 9:01 pmby Matt White
+1
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Sat Jun 19, 2021 1:20 amby Roen Davis
I am not sure what coding hurdles I am proposing but what about an industry leading “manager” that shows the font called for in the AAF/XML and then whether that font is on the system and what font is substituting?
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Wed Jul 07, 2021 3:50 pmby Annaël Beauchemin
Roen Davis wrote:I am not sure what coding hurdles I am proposing but what about an industry leading “manager” that shows the font called for in the AAF/XML and then whether that font is on the system and what font is substituting?
+1 for a missing font alert.
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Sat Jul 10, 2021 10:20 pmby Devonavar
+1
And, not sure of it's doable because of distro inconsistency, but user-installed fonts don't work in Ubuntu ... you have to manually install them as system fonts (i.e. Resolve sees fonts in /usr/share/fonts but not ~/.local/share/fonts). I believe this means going through the official system font manager rather than hardcoding a path, but I'm not 100% sure if that stays consistent across distros ... and I get that Ubuntu isn't the officially supported linux flavour.
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Fri Jul 16, 2021 1:19 amby bryantocara
+1
Especially in Fusion.
The whole node tree is broken even when all the media is there, and the only clue to where the error is occuring is how the nodes that are using a missing font turns red... but no dialog appears to indicate that a new font needs to be selected to work.
I was going crazy troubleshooting in this one instance when by chance I changed the font and boom, everything came back to being functional.
Would have saved me time if Resolve "resolved" the issue for me and told me that the original font used in one of the nodes is not available.
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Re: Missing Font Warning
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Fri Jul 16, 2021 1:33 amby Roen Davis
bryantocara wrote:+1
Especially in Fusion.
The whole node tree is broken even when all the media is there, and the only clue to where the error is occuring is how the nodes that are using a missing font turns red... but no dialog appears to indicate that a new font needs to be selected to work.
I was going crazy troubleshooting in this one instance when by chance I changed the font and boom, everything came back to being functional.
Would have saved me time if Resolve "resolved" the issue for me and told me that the original font used in one of the nodes is not available.
Sent from my motorola razr using Tapatalk
OMG! I had this exact experience yesterday - moved a project to another machine and couldn't work out why the Fusion elements were not working.
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Fri Sep 17, 2021 2:03 amby Roen Davis
Font management is still a big issue for me.
Which font gets substituted without warning is a lucky-dip.
I wish, on startup, it gave a display showing missing fonts, missing media and missing plug-ins?
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Mon Sep 20, 2021 4:38 pmby twainrichardson
+1
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Wed Oct 06, 2021 6:09 pmby myvazquez
+1
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Thu Dec 02, 2021 1:45 pmby StefanThamm
+1
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Thu Dec 02, 2021 11:01 pmby waltervolpatto
+1
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Tue Feb 01, 2022 9:18 pmby peterfox
+1 !!! I wonder why there aren't many more people here wanting this function. Guessing a missing font in an old project is not something I want anybody to experience :S So please BM show a warning and the name of the missing font!
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Wed Feb 02, 2022 10:45 pmby Marc Wielage
I'm still baffled why sometimes a font won't show up in a Text title, but will show up in a Text+ title.
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Fri Feb 04, 2022 10:03 pmby johnsmith06
+1.... sounds like such a simple thing to fix for BMD, yet so painful for users... !
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Fri Feb 04, 2022 11:47 pmby Lee Niederkofler
+1
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Tue Feb 22, 2022 4:21 pmby StormeNet
+1
Oh gosh, I don't even have a clue what font I used and I need to use the same one again for the same project.
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Mon Jul 25, 2022 7:53 pmby Timothy Clark
+50
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Tue Jul 26, 2022 12:02 amby Roen Davis
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Tue Nov 08, 2022 11:40 amby StormeNet
When you realize you need this, it's too late
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Tue Nov 08, 2022 11:47 amby Steve Fishwick
+1 - Avid has had this for years and makes it very useful for finishing in different suites.
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Tue Nov 08, 2022 8:36 pmby cayubal
+1
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Mon Nov 21, 2022 1:10 amby Alan Lavery
+1
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Wed Dec 14, 2022 4:30 pmby bryantocara
As a (hopefully temporary) workaround—I've preemptively started listing out, in the "project notes" window, all the special fonts I've used by name; so whenever I switch systems or send to someone else, they can just see it listed there.
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Wed Dec 14, 2022 9:00 pmby Roen Davis
bryantocara wrote:—I've preemptively started listing out, in the "project notes" window, all the special fonts I've used by name; so whenever I switch systems or send to someone else, they can just see it listed there.
Wouldn’t it be great if it did that automatically?
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Fri Apr 14, 2023 11:49 amby MrVargas
Just faced this very problem yesterday when sending myself a project from my main PC to my laptop.
It would be nice to have, and it's been a feature in competing software for years.
+1
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Wed Apr 26, 2023 6:39 amby Olivier MATHIEU
+1
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Thu May 18, 2023 2:32 pmby waltervolpatto
+1
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Wed May 24, 2023 3:38 amby JohnnyMoniz
+1
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Fri May 26, 2023 10:32 amby Marcin Kusnierz
+1
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Sat Jun 17, 2023 9:43 amby Michael Kropfberger
+1
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Sun Jun 18, 2023 8:22 pmby Dany Dabra
Yess yes yess
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Tue Nov 14, 2023 4:07 pmby Lucius Snow
Necessary.
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Wed Nov 15, 2023 10:15 pmby chlowden
This is a "production killer" issue. Not being sure what fonts are being used in a collaborative pipeline, means I cannot be confident to be delivering the film my client wants. PLEASE PLEASE can someone at BM have a look at this.
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Thu Nov 16, 2023 9:10 amby Michael Kropfberger
yes, especially nowadays, with BM cloud, changing clients are getting even more prone to this problem...
shared raw footage is one thing, but fonts a completely different challenge, since it's handled by the operating system, not by Davinci...
so PLEASE make at least a BIG warning and LIST of used fonts in a project!
better would be a .ttf file export feature, to pack it into the project folder...
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Thu Nov 16, 2023 4:25 pmby bryantocara
Ooo, good idea—didn't even think of a "font packaging" type of export
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Re: Missing Font Warning
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Thu Nov 16, 2023 8:43 pmby chlowden
bryantocara wrote:Ooo, good idea—didn't even think of a "font packaging" type of export
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Just from a legal point of view, font packaging is not great ... and does not solve the problem between OSs. Resolve is amazing at finding lost media. It is pretty essential that it does same thing for fonts.
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Thu Nov 16, 2023 10:34 pmby Roen Davis
I think that IP laws would prevent repackaging fonts. It will likely be something the user needs to acquire themselves but a list of what that is would be very helpful.
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Tue Dec 05, 2023 4:39 pmby Niki Drozdowski
+1
It took me a while to realize that fonts were the problem when I opened an old project and the text clip were just solid black.
But even when I finally got it and installed the correct font it wouldn't show up, even after a restart. So I had to go to the Text+ clip and click on the style menu under the font menu (it has no name, but has entries like "regular", "bold" etc.). And as soon as I hovered over the style options the clip became visible again.
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Tue Dec 05, 2023 7:24 pmby Michael Kropfberger
yeah, I had this behaviour too... it's a bug..
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Tue Dec 05, 2023 7:33 pmby chlowden
Can anyone confirm if this is an issue when working on shared projects or in the BM cloud?
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Sun Jan 21, 2024 7:17 pmby chlowden
I have setup a test BM project server to see how it works.
I can confirm that, unsurprisingly, there is no font error window from the server projects.
I just don't get how one can collaborate on projects in the current, very fluid world of video production, without a font checking function.
Re: Missing Font Warning
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Mon Jan 22, 2024 3:02 amby jjsawdon
+1. I know there's a warning in the console for Text+ titles, but something more prominent would be nice, especially for renders.