Hello.

A customer send me the font Medici Script. It is a Pastscript Truetype 1 font. I installed it at OS-X 10.4 but Inkscape 0.46 doesn't lists the font – it works in any other software. I tried to remove ~/.fontconfig, ~/.inksape/.fccache-new and ~/.inkscape-etc/.fccache-new and run fc-cache and reopended inkscape. I moved the font file to /usr/share/fonts/ttf/, I tried to convert it to other formats with fontforge but nothing helped.

Do you have any ideas?

insca

Hi and Welcome to the Inkscape forums!

insca wrote:Hello.

A customer send me the font Medici Script. It is a Pastscript Truetype 1 font. I installed it at OS-X 10.4 but Inkscape 0.46 doesn't lists the font – it works in any other software. I tried to remove ~/.fontconfig, ~/.inksape/.fccache-new and ~/.inkscape-etc/.fccache-new and run fc-cache and reopended inkscape. I moved the font file to /usr/share/fonts/ttf/, I tried to convert it to other formats with fontforge but nothing helped.

Do you have any ideas?

insca

So the Medici Script font works for all applications on 10.4 except for Inkscape. And you removed your font-cache folders and it still won't load.

Out of sheer curiosity... have you tried testing a similar version of the font? I mean, if I were in your shoes I'd give that a try. If the test font worked, I'd consider my options from that point: Does my customer have to know? Is there a noticeable difference between fonts that the switch might rattle his/her cage? Is this for a massive publication or just a few words in a graphic..., that kind of thing.

I'm not cruel to animals, but there's an unappealing expression that says it all: "There's more than one way to skin a cat."

insca wrote:I installed it at OS-X 10.4 but Inkscape 0.46 doesn't lists the font

Into which folder did you install it initially? Do you use a different font manager than Font Book?

insca wrote: I moved the font file to /usr/share/fonts/ttf/

Inkscape 0.46 loads fonts from these paths:(see 'Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/etc/fonts/fonts.conf')

Try putting the TTF file in '~/.fonts' or '~/Library/Fonts'. Maybe quit and relaunch X11 (not sure how Tiger's old XFree86 version handles newly installed fonts).

BTW - if you have Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger (PPC), you could test Inkscape-0.48.0-1-TIGER-PPC.dmg - for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger (i386) unfortunately the lastest avaible package is 0.46 (Inkscape-0.46-3.TIGER.UNIVERSAL.dmg).

insca wrote:it works in any other software

Did you try other GTK+/X11-based applications too? (GIMP does use custom font routines AFAIK - not sure what app to recommend for testing ;-) ).