Adobe Fonts don't show up in GIMP

[Chuck Coker]

When I install fonts from Adobe Fonts, they show up in my other programs, but not GIMP. I spent about two hours last night with Adobe customer service and we couldn't find a workaround. The guy even installed GIMP on his computer and was able to reproduce my problem, but no solution was found. He suggested I ask in online GIMP forums to see if anyone has found a workaround.

The Adobe Fonts show up in Photoshop, as expected. They also show up in Typograf, MS Notepad, MS Paint, and LibreOffice Writer, so it's not that the fonts are limited to only Photoshop or other Adobe products.

Is anyone successfully using Adobe Fonts with GIMP? Did you discover a workaround?

I'm using GIMP 2.10.38 (revision 1) on Windows 11 Home 24H2.

Thanks.

PS: I checked as I was writing this and the fonts do not appear in Inkscape, either.

[Ofnuts]

(Today, 12:45 AM)Chuck Coker Wrote: When I install fonts from Adobe Fonts, they show up in my other programs, but not GIMP. I spent about two hours last night with Adobe customer service and we couldn't find a workaround. The guy even installed GIMP on his computer and was able to reproduce my problem, but no solution was found. He suggested I ask in online GIMP forums to see if anyone has found a workaround.

The Adobe Fonts show up in Photoshop, as expected. They also show up in Typograf, MS Notepad, MS Paint, and LibreOffice Writer, so it's not that the fonts are limited to only Photoshop or other Adobe products.

Is anyone successfully using Adobe Fonts with GIMP? Did you discover a workaround?

I'm using GIMP 2.10.38 (revision 1) on Windows 11 Home 24H2.

Thanks.

PS: I checked as I was writing this and the fonts do not appear in Inkscape, either.

Not too surprising given that AFAIK Inkscape and GImp have the same Linux heritage and probably use the same font code.

Possible solution:

• Exit Gimp
  
• Navigate to C:\users\{your id}\AppData\local\fontconfig\
  
• Erase all files and directories it contains
  
• Restart Gimp, which should tell you it is reloading the font cache. This may take some time.
  
• See if the new fonts are there
  
  

Otherwise what are these fonts specifically? Maybe they are a kind of fonts that aren't supported yet by the font engine.

[rich2005]

(Today, 12:45 AM)Chuck Coker Wrote: When I install fonts from Adobe Fonts, they show up in my other programs, but not GIMP. I spent about two hours last night with Adobe customer service and we couldn't find a workaround.
I'm using GIMP 2.10.38 (revision 1) on Windows 11 Home 24H2.

Just a couple of thoughts, Is this some sort of Adobe Cloud service ? Do the fonts actually get downloaded to your computer.
I do not have a Windows 11 installation but a search says the obvious, Windows installed fonts are supposed to go into
C:\Windows\Fonts or even C:\Users\"your-name"\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts

However it also came up with an Adobe specific:
C:\Users\your-name\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CoreSync\plugins\livetype\r

If you have the font file, a something.ttf or something.otf in your Gimp user profile fonts folder
C:\Users\"yourname"\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\plug-ins Gimp should see them.
An exception is the old postscript file type .pfm /.pfb which were dropped by Gimp some time ago.