Font manager not managing them.

[rich2005]

(04-14-2024, 06:26 AM)Krikor Wrote: Does anyone here use this app and can help me?

The following information is available on the APP website:

"All the fonts are added to FontBase in an inactive state. To activate a font, you need to click on the circle at the left side of the font's name."

"All the fonts activated in FontBase are active while FontBase is open. When you close the app, all the fonts are deactivated: this way you can easily deactivate all the fonts you have used during your work"

As I explained. Nothing stated above happens in my case.


Thanks for any clarification!

Always willing to give things a try.  I installed this twice (in a Win 10 VM) both as for everyone and for user only.

Neither of those worked out-of-the-box for me, but I did get it working by setting a new root folder https://fontba.se/learn/root-folder and adding that to the Gimp fonts paths.

   

Fontbase certainly copied chosen fonts into the folder and they show up in Gimp

   

However activating / deactivating has no effect here. I think that is what you found.  
You might as well use a two pane file manager and move files in-and-out of the Gimp fonts folder or more automated Ofnuts addonCollectionManager.py plugin does that for you.
Still a problem with Windows, once a font file is active, very difficult to delete it straight away. Usually takes at least a log-out or a Windows restart.

Edit: Just tried out the linux appimage version and apart from the annoying add when started up ($3 a month, that is enough to stop me using it). It works. I suppose it is for those who like all those google fonts. As an alternative you can download the whole google fonts set, although it is a big download.