Hello people.

At some point - I'm not clear when - something changed with my fonts (Linux - Slackware64 13.1). Now I cannot select, for example, the bold or italic version of DejaVu Sans. The appear as Regular.

- I tried to install the newest package for the dejavu fonts,

- ran mkfontscale

- ran mkfontdir

- Though probably unnecessary, ran fc-cache

First tried to 'reload fonts' (button in fonts dialog) in Gimp, then tried to restart gimp entirely. (and from a terminal to check for any messages with --verbose).

Am I missing some important step?

John

On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:52:32 -0300 John Coppens wrote:

Am I missing some important step?

Forgot to mention, 'FontMatrix' shows all the variants of the DejaVu font, including Bold, Condensed, Italic, etc.

Only thing out of the 'ordinary' is that the regular font is called 'book', not 'regular', 'normal', 'roman', as most do.

John

On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:57:08 -0300 John Coppens wrote:

Am I missing some important step?

Not solved yet, but I detected that renaming the font, then running fc-cache, makes the font appear in Gimp! I first thought that changing .TTF to .ttf had done the trick, but just changing _anything_ in the font name works.

Changing back to the original name, makes the font disappear again, as if there is a blacklist somewhere... Strange!

John BTW, Gimp is 2.6.11, fontconfig 2.6.0 if that matters.