On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:13 AM, bobdobbs wrote:

It looks like the name of the font that gimp displays in the font text settings pane doesn't corrospond to the filename of the actual font, so the solution isn't as simple as navigating to my main font directory and grepping for it.

I had a similar problem - I had a directory containing tons of fonts that were all very badly named. I wrote this snippet to rename the files based on the actual font name (family_style.ttf) so I could find them and install as needed:
http://pastebin.com/GB6PKBim

BE WARNED: this changes the file names *in place* - there is absolutely no safety net. You might consider copying your font dir to a temporary location and then running the script there instead. For me it worked well - that whole directory is named correctly now, but I make no guarantees (may kick puppies, eat kittens, etc. ;) Also it only will do TTF files, and probably only works on linux. You need python-imaging and python-magic as well.

Another possibility would be to modify this script to output the filename and the font name on the same line - that way you could pipe that through grep and see which file matches which font.

HTH, Chris

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Chris Mohler wrote:

Another possibility would be to modify this script to output the filename and the font name on the same line

After rereading that script, I saw it was quite easy to modify so it only lists the font name and file name on the same line: http://pastebin.com/ztbgPJhZ

I only tested it once but it seems to work OK. On a fairly stock Ubuntu I only had to install python-magic.

Chris

bobdobbs (forums@gimpusers.com) wrote:

I've got lots of fonts in quiet a few directories.

I'm using a particular font in an image I'm editing. I want to discover the pathname of this font.

It looks like the name of the font that gimp displays in the font text settings pane doesn't corrospond to the filename of the actual font, so the solution isn't as simple as navigating to my main font directory and grepping for it.

Can gimp give me enough information on the font to allow me to find it?

Not exactly Gimp, but try this:

simon@mezzanine:~$ fc-list "DejaVu Sans" : file /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansCondensed-BoldOblique.ttf: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansCondensed.ttf: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-ExtraLight.ttf: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansCondensed-Bold.ttf: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansCondensed-Oblique.ttf:

Hope this helps, Simon

Hi,
cr33dog@gmail.com (2010-10-01 at 1228.05 -0500):

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Chris Mohler wrote:

Another possibility would be to modify this script to output the filename and the font name on the same line

After rereading that script, I saw it was quite easy to modify so it only lists the font name and file name on the same line: http://pastebin.com/ztbgPJhZ

I only tested it once but it seems to work OK. On a fairly stock Ubuntu I only had to install python-magic.

In Unix based systems it would be worth to try with symlinks: keep the original named files somewhere, make the apps see symlinks that have usable names and point to the real files; or even hardlinks, if same partition.

GSR

On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 09:13 +0200, bobdobbs wrote:

I've got lots of fonts in quiet a few directories.

I'm using a particular font in an image I'm editing. I want to discover the pathname of this font.

It looks like the name of the font that gimp displays in the font text settings pane doesn't corrospond to the filename of the actual font, so the solution isn't as simple as navigating to my main font directory and grepping for it.

Can gimp give me enough information on the font to allow me to find it?

No, but the tools that come with fontconfig can. There's the fc-list command-line utility that can list all available fonts with their filenames. Try "fc-list : family style file". For details see the fc-list manual page.

Sven