Difference between revisions of "Installing fonts"
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Inkscape does not require (or offer) any specific way of installing fonts. Essentially, one has to download whatever fonts one would like and place them in the default font directory. Many Linux distributions and other operating systems will allow to install a font by double-clicking on the file, which will then install/copy the font into the correct directory for you. | |||
Inkscape does not require (or offer) any specific way of installing fonts. Essentially, one has to download whatever fonts one would like and place them in the default font directory. Many Linux distributions and other operating systems will allow to install a font by double-clicking on the file, which will then install/copy the font into the correct directory for you. | |||
If your operating system does not offer this comfortable way of installing fonts, these hints may help you: | If your operating system does not offer this comfortable way of installing fonts, these hints may help you: | ||
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[[Category:User Documentation]] | [[Category:User Documentation]] | ||
== | == Fix missing font in Windows == | ||
This is a known bug witch is going to be fixed in 0.94x and 1.0. You need to have all your fonts installed for all users to be seen by Inkscape in Windows. Until then (or users who do want to update) here's how to fix it: | This is a known bug witch is going to be fixed in 0.94x and 1.0. You need to have all your fonts installed for all users to be seen by Inkscape in Windows. Until then (or users who do want to update) here's how to fix it: | ||
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# Open Explorer (This computer) | # Open Explorer (This computer) | ||
# Go to: | # Go to: | ||
<pre> C:\Users\ '''My USER Name''' \AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts </pre> | <pre> C:\Users\ '''My USER Name''' \AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts </pre> | ||
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IF this does not work there is another option to try | IF this does not work there is another option to try | ||
add the line | # Find and open '''fonts.conf''' in your Inkscape install folder <code>...\Inkscape\etc\fonts\fonts.conf</code> | ||
# add the line <code>'''~/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Fonts'''</code> This line should go below the line <code>WINDOWSFONTDIR</code> | |||
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Revision as of 06:58, 9 April 2025
Inkscape does not require (or offer) any specific way of installing fonts. Essentially, one has to download whatever fonts one would like and place them in the default font directory. Many Linux distributions and other operating systems will allow to install a font by double-clicking on the file, which will then install/copy the font into the correct directory for you.
If your operating system does not offer this comfortable way of installing fonts, these hints may help you:
- On Linux, fonts can be made available systemwide, to be accessible to core GUI resources such as KDE or GNOME. More commonly, users only install fonts so they can be used by product-making applications including Inkscape and OpenOffice.org.
- Truetype fonts are installed by placement of the files into the /usr/share/fonts/ttf directory (or C:\WINDOWS\FONTS for Windows types).
- mv ~/downloads/*.ttf /usr/share/fonts/ttf
- It is advisable that the font cache file be deleted in the process. This file is fonts.cache-1, located in /usr/share/fonts (or C:\WINDOWS\FONTS for Windows types). After font files have been transferred to the default font directory, delete this fonts.cache-1 file and the .fonts.cache-1 file in your home directory (or "My Documents" directory for Windows types).
- rm -f /usr/share/fonts/*fonts.cache-1 - rm -f ~/*fonts.cache-1
Once done doing this, you need to rebuild your font cache files (only if you are using Linux or some other OS for which font caches are used) so other programs can effectively use the fonts. Do this by going to your default font directory (/usr/share/fonts) and typing as root:
- fc-cache
Installing without admin rights
On most Linux distributions, there is a directory called .fonts in your home directory. You can install fonts only for yourself by copying them there. This does not require admin rights.
Previously, GNOME's Nautilus file browser had a special location called fonts:/// which could be used to install fonts. After the migration to GVFS, this no longer works, but may be re-added some time in the future.
Fix missing font in Windows
This is a known bug witch is going to be fixed in 0.94x and 1.0. You need to have all your fonts installed for all users to be seen by Inkscape in Windows. Until then (or users who do want to update) here's how to fix it:
- Open Explorer (This computer)
- Go to:
C:\Users\ '''My USER Name''' \AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts
(you can copy this and past into explorer just change your user name)
- Select all fonts
- Right-click and select INSTALL FOR ALL USERS
- Restart Inkscape
- You should have all your fonts
Method 2
IF this does not work there is another option to try
- Find and open fonts.conf in your Inkscape install folder
...\Inkscape\etc\fonts\fonts.conf - add the line
~/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/FontsThis line should go below the lineWINDOWSFONTDIR