Google Fonts in Gimp

[Rainer Müller]

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? 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.

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

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