5 hours ago
(This post was last modified: 5 hours ago by gophersnake.)
(6 hours ago)rich2005 Wrote: It might be a Windows 11 thing.At this point I strongly suspect it is a Windows 11 thing.
User installed fonts go in C:\Users\"yourname"\Appdata\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts Is the Rockell Font There ? Gimp should pick up fonts there ? It does here in Win10.
Alternatives.
First the font files, instead of Micro$oft Store there are versions of the Rockwell font for download
https://freefontsfamily.org/rockwell-font-free/
https://font.download/font/rockwell-nova
Put the font files in your Gimp profile fonts folder: C:\Users\"yourname"\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\fonts
For me, GIMP currently has these three places in its list of where to look for fonts
(Edit > Preferences > Folders > Fonts) :
C:\Users\[My username]\Appdata\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts
C:\Users\[My username]\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\fonts
C:\Program Files\GIMP2\share\gimp\2.0\fonts
When I locate and open those folders, each one says only "This folder is empty". GIMP obviously loaded its fonts from somewhere, so either it wasn't from those folders or the files in those folders are... somehow hidden from me? I don't see any obvious control for unhiding them, but I haven't looked very far.
The (legacy?) fonts are in C:\Windows\Fonts but Rockwell isn't among them. I tried temporarily adding "C:\Windows\Fonts" to GIMP's list of places to look. I got some error messages (apparently for fonts that weren't compatible with GIMP) and I may have gained a few fonts in GIMP that I didn't have before; no Rockwell, though.
I've since removed "C:\Windows\Fonts" from GIMP's list of places to look, but a full set of fonts still seems to be available whenever I launch GIMP.
Thanks for the download links. I'll try them after a good night's sleep. I'd already found some sites like those with Google, but also some warnings that downloading fonts from unknown sites was risky. This my first venture into fonts so for me, all font sites besides Microsoft are unknown.
(7 hours ago)Ofnuts Wrote: You have to either restart Gimp or refresh the fonts in the Gimp font list (open the list, hit the < icon at top right, then Fonts menu > Rescan fonts list).
If that doesn't work, you can try this:
- With your file explorer, navigate to C:\users\{your id}\AppData\local\fontconfig
On next start, Gimp will rebuild its font list.
- Erase the directory contents (in partocumar the cache subdirectory)
I take it I've already restarted GIMP several times. I usually Quit after each experiment and relaunch when I'm ready for the next one. GIMP says each time that it's finding brushes and stuff, and (very briefly) that it's finding fonts.
The only GIMP font list I've found so far is the one in the Tool Options for the Text tool. Is that the one you mean? I don't see a way to get from there to anything that looks like "Rescan fonts list".
I did find AppData\local\fontconfig but I'd better wait till I'm wide awake to start erasing stuff.
