Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp Font List or remove unwanted fonts

[Ross Martinek <triarius12 gmail com>]

The reason you cannot remove the "system fonts" is that they are part of "core services." under current OS X 
versions these can only be altered by the administrative user account with authentication from Apple via an 
Apple ID, but it (supposedly) can be done.

Another approach is to not install the foreign font families at the time of OS installation, if you want to 
do a clean install.

Ross

On Mar 26, 2016, at 12:33 AM, Snowyn wrote:

> I want to customize the font list shown on GIMP so that it does not show me
> fonts I will never use but cannot remove from my system because OS X insists
> they are system fonts. However, I don't need Japanese, Hebrew, Chinese, etc
> alphabets, and I cannot disable them in the font book, or delete them from the
> font folder.
>
> It would also be wonderful if GIMP would condense its font list into families
> instead of displaying each individual one. Eg, Arial, Arial Italic, Arial Bold,
> and Arial Bold Italic could easily be one entry instead of four. Scrolling past
> a gazillion fonts just to reach the one I want to use is getting annoying. It
> would also be wonderful if GIMP would allow me to create custom lists, eg
> SansSerif fonts, Script fonts, and the like.
>
> BTW, I have looked in my GIMP font folders, both for user and for the
> application, and both are empty.
>
> Thanks for any assistance you can provide, or light you can shed on this
> situation.
>
> -- 
> Snowyn (via www.gimpusers.com/forums)
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