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Problems in Windows 10 Creators Update with Fonts Installed via “Shortcut”!Īnother thing I tried was using the Unstable Master of Inkscape “A few releases ago, Microsoft managed to thoroughly break font management on Windows 10.” which is described here: Inkscape >= 0.91 doesn’t show fonts loaded by font manager on WindowsĪll this goes to show is that by the time someone reports a bug, there are probably a LOT of people experiencing the bug.Īnother useful (but perhaps unrelated tidbit) from that page is: I found that this problem has been around (or around and then solved and then unsolved…) for a while (almost 6 years):Īnd again the “answer” that would work was “For the moment, you could maybe just solve the problem fast by copying the font files you need into your ‘true’, un-managed, font directory.” - except of course, that this is the thing that one wants to avoid. Here’s a Feature Request from 2019 to make Inkscape work with font managers.įeature Request: Fontbase and other font managers

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I don’t want to install over 1000 fonts into Windows, so this wasn’t helpful (other than the claim that “Are you using a font manager? If so it’s a known issue on Windows.”Īny ideas why my newly installed fonts wont show inside inkscape? they worked on my old computer but now they wont on my new alienware 17 r4 running latest win 10.Īdobe illustrator sees it but inkscape does not. Then there’s this – which suggested that you right-click on fonts and install them as Administrator “for all users” and that Inkscape won’t work with font managers. And found that my symlink was done correctly, it just didn’t fix the font problem.

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It suggested using NTFSLinksView and since I’ve trusted Nir Sofer software before I tried it. Thinking that it was possibly that I just created the symlink incorrectly, I searched around and found a SuperUser question: The fix–for me, at least–is to use symlinks. It was subtitled as “Use SkyFonts with InkScape and other font managers” but talked about FontBase and seemed relevant to any font manager (it includes the list SkyFonts, NexusFont, The Font Thing, FontBase, etc.). This was something I found a long time ago, and tried, and it didn’t work. The links below were mostly not helpful except for knowing that other people had the same problem, so I’m including them here just to show that nobody had clearly given a solution. Now when I add a font it is backed up to OneDrive as part of the process. Because last time my hard drive died I lost ALL my fonts back until the last time I had made a copy of my fonts folder. Maybe I’m dull, or maybe you found this post because you have the same problem and that pic above will be your AHA!Īlso note in the image above: I keep my fonts in a OneDrive folder. I have no idea how long the solution has been this simple, but I know I’ve been looking for it for years. I would never have guessed this setting existed – especially since other software uses fonts just fine without it. Maybe I’m dull, but a pic like this one above with the big red arrow would have been worth 1,000 words. I suspect that this same thing will work for other font manager software. Yes, it is that easy - the trick is knowing that such a thing exists and where it is located.

Here’s the simple solution: Look in the Inkscape Preferences menu under Text and in the “Font directories” section, add in the path of the directory that holds your FontBase fonts.

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Free is a compelling price.īut I need my fonts to work, or it isn’t worth anything! With the newly released Inkscape 1.0, I felt it was time to try out Inkscape again - I’ve always liked how it was trying to provide all the functionality of CorelDraw (without the huge price tag). Switching to a font manager solved that and allowed me to access my fonts as needed in software like Affinity Designer, but I couldn’t get them to work in Inkscape.

I use way too many fonts to just “install them all into Windows” without having problems.

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I finally solved how to get FontBase fonts to work with Inkscape - and potentially fonts that are managed with a different font manager.

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