Adobe Fonts don't show up in GIMP

[Chuck Coker]

(02-17-2025, 09:07 AM)rich2005 Wrote: When you spoke to the Adobe Customer Service (sic) did they tell you where the fonts installed ?

They didn't tell me where.

Quote:C:\Users\your-name\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CoreSync\plugins\livetype\r

I found some files in this folder that had names like "14476" with no extension. I looked in one using Notepad and found the name of a font I was looking for. I copied the files to a temporary folder and added a .ttf extension to each file. Then I used a font renamer program to rename all the files. (Too lazy to open each file and do them by hand.) They were all renamed to fonts that I knew my computer had installed, but I didn't know where. Most extensions were renamed to .otf so I was wrong about the .ttf extension, but I was on the right track and it was close enough for the font renamer to work.

I right-clicked on the font I was looking for and clicked Install. I started up GIMP and the font shows up now. I tried using it just to make sure it works and it does.

I started at the C: drive in File Explorer and searched for the font name. I found it in

C:\Users\chuck\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts

along with a bunch of other fonts I've installed. The other fonts that were automatically installed by Adobe Fonts were not in that folder, but I know where they are now, so I can add them as I need them.

The font now shows up and is usable in Inkscape, too.

I'm going to see if I can change the title of this thread by adding "solved". [Edit: I couldn't figure out how to change the thread title.]

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(02-13-2025, 07:53 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: 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.

I solved the problem. See post number 7 below. Thanks for your help.