Font manager not managing them.

[Krikor]

(04-16-2024, 07:05 PM)rich2005 Wrote:

(04-16-2024, 05:51 PM)Krikor Wrote: ....snip....
When I deactivate this font (which will have to be manually and GIMP needs to be restarted) I will have to remember to add it to this group (Ex1) in the filter again in the future, as it will have been removed when deactivated.

This complicates font management in GIMP. But the truth is that I haven't found anything better.

Not much you can do about keeping tags once a font is removed. It is not always necessary to restart Gimp.
This no better than other ways, just an example. A bit of a struggle to get it into a minute

https://i.imgur.com/PeNSIUJ.mp4

What it shows
Using Freecommander (there are other file managers) copy a font (right side) to the Gimp font folder (left side)
Using that font in Gimp, finish and close the file.
The font no longer needed but Windows stops the user deleting the file (file is open..message)
You can delete it in a terminal del /f name-of-font.ttf or with a wild card del /f *.ttf
The font still shows in Gimp - refresh the fonts

For some reason I thought I always had to restart GIMP.
Now, just by not having to restart GIMP, the fluidity of the work has improved a lot.

I watched the .mp4 preview and pondered it.
 
I thought it could be advantageous compared to having to delete the .Active in the Preferences\fonts_storage folder and then manually remove the font from the \preferences\fonts folder (which is what I need to do when using the Ofnuts Addon).

But then I realized that I can do the same just by using two Win File Explorer windows. (side by side).
On one side: Preferences\fonts_storage; A
On the other side: \preferences\fonts; B

1. To add the font from the \Preferences\fonts_storage folder to GIMP, simply move the font from window A to window B.

2. To deactivate the previously activated font, simply copy it from window B to window A. (confirm the file overlap and voilà)

I installed and tested nexusfont.
As a font viewer I liked it.
But it neither offers an option to filter by Tags nor allows for activation/deactivation in GIMP.
It was also very slow (maybe because I had it installed on a pendrive (usb-driver)).

rich2005, Thx!

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PixLab, you practically created a tutorial with your previous post. I think it could even be added to the tutorials section of this forum. :-)

Briefly, what I can say is that I use the same method that you presented. I lacked clearer terminology to describe my steps; for example I should have used the word Tag (I used font group).

But there is one particularity that I would like to highlight:
You possibly load all your fonts together with GIMP startup.

In my case, I leave many fonts in the \Preferences\fonts_storage folder (for use via the Ofnuts Addon). I only carry them when I know I'm going to use them.

But this creates a problem that I mentioned in post #13:

Quote:"Another annoyance is that when deactivating a font via the Addon it is automatically removed from any group of fonts to which I have added it in GIMP."

In other words, when I deactivate the font loaded by the Addon, it loses the Tag it had been associated with.

In short, I can't tag the fonts added by the Addon, so I would like to have a good font manager.


The information you posted in the last paragraph of your post was indeed the icing on the cake:  

Quote:"Warning: There is something to care about, if you tag your fonts, then use the reload button (green at the bottom), all what you have tagged during this GIMP session, will vanish, I learned it the hard way Big Grin
My recommendation tag all your fonts as needed, then once it's done close GIMP (it will save all your newly tagged fonts) then re-open GIMP, yeah that's not very user friendly, but it's the only safe way I found, because if you click on that reload by accident during the very same session, your newly tagged fonts are gone"

You can't imagine the number of times I lost tags and had to recreate them. Just yesterday, one of the tags, I had to redo it three times!  
And I had no idea that that little green button was the big villain. I thought it was a bug or that I was somehow deleting the tags (but no idea how I could be doing this).

Thx!