Google Fonts in Gimp

[Jasper Frumau]

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:

> On 2012-05-11 03:52 , Jasper Frumau wrote:
> > When I opened up Gimp again the added fonts were not there. Not sure how
> > to run fc-cache. I did:
>
> To which folder did you add the files?


/Users/jasper/Library/Fonts/



> It seems like the fontconfig
> configuration only checks the global system folders, such as
> /Library/Fonts but not the user-specific path in your home at
> ~/Library/Fonts by default.
>

Seems like it yeah


>
> To add ~/Library/Fonts to the paths being scanned, I added a symlink on
> my system as a workaround:
>
>  mkdir ~/.fonts
>  ln -s ~/Library/Fonts .fonts/user
>  fc-cache -fv
>


Worked. Thank!


>
> This last fc-cache command forces a re-index of the fonts and displays
> which paths are being scanned. An alternative would be to add the
> ~/Library/Fonts path to /opt/local/etc/fonts/fonts.conf directly.
>
> Ryan, do you think ~/Library/Fonts would be a sensible default in the
> same way fontconfig already scans ~/.fonts?
>
> Rainer
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