On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Rainer Müller <[email protected]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users >
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