heppnerguy Posted February 27, 2020 Report Share Posted February 27, 2020 (edited) THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR YOUR HELP. I WAS DOING ALL THE THINGS SUGGESTED, OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND NOTHING WORKED. HOWEVER i USED THE LINK FAB 4 SENT AND IT WORKED. NO IDEA WHY, BUT IT WORKED. In the past I have downloaded a lot of different free fonts from Dafont.com and I have never come across a problem but now, all of a sudden there seems to be something I have forgotten or there are some different things added that I do not understand. Here is my problem. I have a different computer and have found that when i need a new font added to Inkscape it somehow does not get there. It does download and comes onto my list of fonts that I have for my 'word' but does not show in my options for Inkscape. Can someone please help me to getting my fonts to show in Inkscape? I am trying to get the font, 'birds of paradise' on my inkscape for my word plaques. I watched youtube and tried what I saw there but it still does not show up. Any suggestions or help would be very much appreciated Dick heppnerguy Edited February 29, 2020 by heppnerguy Fab4 and OCtoolguy 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandaideman Posted February 27, 2020 Report Share Posted February 27, 2020 I will watch with you. I had the same font Bird of Paradise on ink scape and decided to go to next up inkscape and have not seen it since over a year. could not figure how to get it to load. OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WayneMahler Posted February 27, 2020 Report Share Posted February 27, 2020 I had this issue too. What I do now it open the font. On the (name).ttf I place my mouse cursor over it. Then I right click and select install for all. This works for me. Hope this helps you guys out also. This should work for any font file, not just the true type fonts. I used that as an easy example. Phantom Scroller and OCtoolguy 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
don in brooklin on Posted February 27, 2020 Report Share Posted February 27, 2020 This has been discussed a few times here. When you download a font. Save to a folder on your computer. (I made a new folder called Fonts in my Scrool patterns font) Most fonts come in a zip file. Find downloaded font and click on it. You must extract to disk. It will create a new folder. Go to that folder and right click on font. Must install FOR ALL USERS. Open Inkscape and see if there. If not restart computer and try again. Not there cry a bit. OCtoolguy and Fab4 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heppnerguy Posted February 27, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2020 2 hours ago, WayneMahler said: I had this issue too. What I do now it open the font. On the (name).ttf I place my mouse cursor over it. Then I right click and select install for all. This works for me. Hope this helps you guys out also. This should work for any font file, not just the true type fonts. I used that as an easy example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heppnerguy Posted February 27, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2020 Just now, heppnerguy said: I tried that and got the same results. I even deleted and reinstalled Inkscape with the same results. It is so confusing. I never had a problem like this before. I will try once more., thanks for the hint....i saw that on youtube and did just what you have told me here.. Dick heppnerguy 2 hours ago, don in brooklin on said: This has been discussed a few times here. When you download a font. Save to a folder on your computer. (I made a new folder called Fonts in my Scrool patterns font) Most fonts come in a zip file. Find downloaded font and click on it. You must extract to disk. It will create a new folder. Go to that folder and right click on font. Must install FOR ALL USERS. Open Inkscape and see if there. If not restart computer and try again. Not there cry a bit. I did this and even have the same example on my computer that you displayed above... the only thing i did not do, was to restart my computer itself.. I will go try that. thanks for responding Dick heppnerguy OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted February 27, 2020 Report Share Posted February 27, 2020 Closing & reopening Inkscape worked for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fab4 Posted February 27, 2020 Report Share Posted February 27, 2020 (edited) Hi Dick: Let's try this, Not sure if it will work but we have nothing to lose here is the font that I copied from my font folder See if you can copy this one If this does not work, then I agree with Don's advice - If it's not there, cry a bit Just so you know, with the newer system I have, I had to cry a time or two....LOL Fab4 BIRDS OF PARADISE.TTF Edited February 27, 2020 by Fab4 OCtoolguy and Tomanydogs 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimErn Posted February 27, 2020 Report Share Posted February 27, 2020 10 hours ago, bandaideman said: I will watch with you. I had the same font Bird of Paradise on ink scape and decided to go to next up inkscape and have not seen it since over a year. could not figure how to get it to load. I did the same thing, same problem so I went back to the original version of inkscape OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brokentone Posted February 27, 2020 Report Share Posted February 27, 2020 Thank you Don, I have tried to get that font into inkscape for about a year. FINALLY successful. Bob OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heppnerguy Posted February 29, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 29, 2020 On 2/26/2020 at 10:35 PM, octoolguy said: Closing & reopening Inkscape worked for me. I did all of the above, including removing and reinstalling the program and still it would not put the text in Inkscape. Has me really baffled. Dick heppnerguy OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heppnerguy Posted February 29, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 29, 2020 On 2/27/2020 at 6:21 AM, Brokentone said: Thank you Don, I have tried to get that font into inkscape for about a year. FINALLY successful. Bob You are luckier then I am. I did all of the above and it still will not show up in Inkscape Dick heppnerguy OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heppnerguy Posted February 29, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 29, 2020 On 2/27/2020 at 3:59 AM, JimErn said: I did the same thing, same problem so I went back to the original version of inkscape I might try that if I can find a different version to download. Dick heppnerguy OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heppnerguy Posted February 29, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 29, 2020 On 2/27/2020 at 2:08 AM, Fab4 said: Hi Dick: Let's try this, Not sure if it will work but we have nothing to lose here is the font that I copied from my font folder See if you can copy this one If this does not work, then I agree with Don's advice - If it's not there, cry a bit Just so you know, with the newer system I have, I had to cry a time or two....LOL Fab4 BIRDS OF PARADISE.TTF 95.55 kB · 9 downloads THANK YOU.. FOR SOME REASON iT LOADED THIS TIME.. NOTHING DIFFERENT DONE FROM PREVIOUS DOWNLOADS, BUT IT WORKED. THANK YOU Dick heppnerguy Fab4 and OCtoolguy 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heppnerguy Posted February 29, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 29, 2020 On 2/26/2020 at 5:35 PM, bandaideman said: I will watch with you. I had the same font Bird of Paradise on ink scape and decided to go to next up inkscape and have not seen it since over a year. could not figure how to get it to load. You might download the font sent for Fab 4. For some reason, nothing else worked and i did everything the same. This one did work. Give it a try Dick heppnerguy OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted February 29, 2020 Report Share Posted February 29, 2020 If I recall this topic came up before. I had to give it a try. I downloaded the font file, extracted it to my desktop, right clicked it and clicked on install for all users. I opened Inkscape but it wasn't there. I closed Inkscape and then reopened it and it magically appeared. My story and I'm sticking to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heppnerguy Posted March 8, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2020 On 2/28/2020 at 11:29 PM, octoolguy said: If I recall this topic came up before. I had to give it a try. I downloaded the font file, extracted it to my desktop, right clicked it and clicked on install for all users. I opened Inkscape but it wasn't there. I closed Inkscape and then reopened it and it magically appeared. My story and I'm sticking to it. I had tried that and that did not work for me either. Fab 4's link did the trick, not sure why, it just did Dick heppnerguy OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teachnlearn Posted March 10, 2020 Report Share Posted March 10, 2020 (edited) There are versions of all software programs. One thing that changes in this thread with everyone, is what version of Inkscape they have. So depending on the version/ sub version fix or bug. Different people may experience different problems with the same software. At times it can come down to looking at support sites or writing the companies or forums and see if there is a bug or update or version that has the problem. Many times when they update to the newest version, they can create bugs from the new features or changes. So its a ongoing chase to make new features, while chasing old bugs or new ones created. RJF Edited March 10, 2020 by teachnlearn think changed to thing OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted March 10, 2020 Report Share Posted March 10, 2020 (edited) I'm running ver. 0.92. I looked for a place to check for updates but couldn't find one. Edit: I just downloaded 0.92.4. I guess that's the newest one. Edited March 10, 2020 by octoolguy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teachnlearn Posted March 10, 2020 Report Share Posted March 10, 2020 I searched support and got a general page. Community forums or support from the programs here would be a source. RJF https://inkscape.org/community/ OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted March 10, 2020 Report Share Posted March 10, 2020 I just installed ver. 092.4. Seems to run ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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