Re: [Gimp-user] Unused fonts

[Michael Schumacher <schumaml gmx de>]

On 11/23/2016 09:11 PM, TimH wrote:

> I went through and cleaned a whole load of fonts out of my Windows 8 system -
> including a lot of system fonts. That change is not reflected in GIMP, which
> persists in showing me the old system fonts including the non-western languages,
> which, being a Westerner, I do not use. 

It is pretty likely Windows doesn't delete fonts, but marks them as
hidden. This may not be reflected in the list of fonts available to
GIMP, if fontconfig - the library used to list and categorize fonts -
either does not support this yet, or is not configured to do so.

We got a similar bug report about fonts not being used due to language
settings:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641808


What we need is for someone using the affected platform (or caring very
much about it) to figure out how fontconfig can be made to honor these
settings and/or the font state (i.e. them being hidden or not,
respectively).

This could be a configuration setting, or may require a code change in
this library. Blacklisting arbitrary fonts based on some of their
feature is possible, so this might be a matter of finding something
these fonts have in common that is also recognized and understood by
fontconfig.


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Regards,
Michael
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