Cannot find user-installed fonts on Windows
  • sebescudie
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    Cannot find user-installed fonts on Windows

    by sebescudie » Fri Feb 05, 2021 12:05 pm

    Hello there,

    Using MM 4.0.5 on W10, I'd like to use manually installed fonts for the text generator. Unfortunately, those won't show up in the Font dropdown. I made sure they're ttf fonts and tried three different ones, but none of them show up.

    These fonts all show up in other softwares such as LibreOffice Writer.

    Repro steps :

    - Download this font from FontSquirrel
    - Install it
    - Start MM and try to assign it to a text generator
    - The font is not present in the dropdown

    Happy to provide more details if necessary!

    Thanks in advance.
  • mad-matt
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    Re: Cannot find user-installed fonts on Windows

    by mad-matt » Sat Feb 06, 2021 11:03 am

    Ok, there might be an issue looking for user fonts on Windows in the Text Generator module.
    It's actually looking in C:\Windows\Fonts\. Do you know where your font was installed ?
  • sebescudie
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    Re: Cannot find user-installed fonts on Windows

    by sebescudie » Sat Feb 06, 2021 12:51 pm

    Mornin'

    Indeed, Windows control panel says the font was installed in C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Fonts.

    Screenshot here

    If I browse to this folder, I see all fonts I have manually installed

    Screenshot here

    Weird thing is if I browse to C:\Windows\Fonts, the font also shows up there :

    Screenshot here
  • mad-matt
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    Re: Cannot find user-installed fonts on Windows

    by mad-matt » Mon Feb 08, 2021 11:34 am

    Is your font in ttf format ? (file with .ttf extension)
  • sebescudie
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    Re: Cannot find user-installed fonts on Windows

    by sebescudie » Mon Feb 08, 2021 3:00 pm

    Hello there,

    It is indeed :

    Image

    Now, looking a bit more at the C:\Windows\Fonts folder, Windows shows it as an OpenType font :

    Image
  • mad-matt
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    Re: Cannot find user-installed fonts on Windows

    by mad-matt » Mon Feb 08, 2021 4:15 pm

    I suppose that's why it doesn't appear. We rely on a library that only supports True Type fonts. I know some don't work.
    In the mean time we've been working on another text renderer that is more robust and cross-platform. So I suppose next MadMapper feature release will find all your fonts.

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