(02-10-2020, 12:03 PM)rich2005 Wrote: Just been having a look, found a free FarmHouse that is otf. Not the same as your installation but does exhibit a 'changed' font name in Gimp: https://i.imgur.com/TWVmndb.jpg Indicates a less than wonderful font structure.
..but installed in Windows, fonts only shows the same as previously. Uninstall from Win fonts and the font goes from Gimp.
The only strange thing, with the fonts installed, a Windows search for *.otf does not show anything in C:\ https://i.imgur.com/8Zc5Q4K.jpg but then I am a linux user and might be missing something.
Gimp installed in F: ? Have you tried renaming F:\Program Files\GIMP 2\var\cache\fontconfig to disable it. Guessing it contains hard links to non-existent files.
edit: That is strange, I do not seem to have a ..\Program Files\GIMP 2\var\ on my installation.
edit again: That reported as a bug https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/2574
yes... I've seen those less than wonderful fonts with awkward names, from time to time.
The Win Explorer view of Windows\Fonts shows the fonts rather than the font files, on my system. I get nothing when looking for *.otf, *.ttf – or just plain ttf, otf or ?tf, for that matter. And after trying that, I need to 'go out and come in again' because the screen won't show ANYTHING, search box empty or clear. Put it down as a "It's Windows Explorer Search" issue – it's balky at the best of times.
Dropping to an admin-enabled console session shows the files present rather than the fonts installed, with a plain old DIR. It's just as confusing, because I can now see files that shouldn't be there. Blooming Windows.
Yup. F:\
put it down to 'historic reasons'
Program Files\GIMP 2\var\cache\fontconfig gets recreated on my system if its been renamed or deleted, when Gimp starts.
Contents don't show up as hard links.
Interesting bug – am I going to have to learn how to fudge the config?
PS I had a look at the files Gimp is referencing on startup.
It seems to be hitting C:\Windows\Fonts\StaticCache.dat file during its font search, which claims to have not been updated since 30th August 2019.
Then again, I've just had a look at it with various tools and its Last Access time is still the same 30/08/2019 time too, so who can say...