Why Can 39;t I Use My Downloaded Fonts

[Tisha]

Ijust got a MacBook Air from work and I have downloaded fonts and tried dragging them into FontBook. All that happens is a quick window flashes open and then closes and then they are not showing up as installed.

hello, yes I have. I hit "install font" and/or drag the font into FontBook but nothing has worked. This is a work computer but I am listed as "admin" and have successfully downloaded and installed programs such as the Silhouette software.

This is an error I am getting in Chrome and unfortunately searching for it hasn't given me much results. The font itself is appearing correctly. However I still get this error/warning. More specifically, this is the full warning:

I just do not understand. The font is applied correctly, but the warning is always there. Trying to use Sans-Serif makes the font revert to the normal browser font, so that may be it, but I am not sure, and even after searching I have found nothing. Thanks!

There are various font files, all from the same family. I am trying to load them all. The font files are .ttf. I am loading them from a local folder, and there are various font-files, like Lato-Black.ttf, Lato-Bold.ttf, Lato-Italic.ttf etc.

My problem was occurring in browsers different than chrome.Pay attention to the coma between URL and format, this is how everything went back to normal for all the browsers. Honestly, it works without this "format" too but I decided to leave it be.

Sometimes this problem happens when you upload/download the fonts using the wrong FTP method. Fonts must be FTP-ed using binary method, not ASCII. (Depending on your mood, it may feel counterintuitive, lol).If you ftp the font files using ASCII method, you can get this error message. If you ftp your files with an 'auto' method, and you get this error message, try ftp forcing the binary method.

AWS Amplify specific Failed to decode downloaded font issue as above - but adding woff2 to the default Target address /index.html rule in App setting / Rewrites and redirects resolved any woff2 errors ?

The solution was to upload the font files directly into the branch from my local file system. I assume this happened because SVN patch files must convert everything to ASCII format, and don't necessarily retain binary for font files. But that's only a guess.

In my case -- using React with Gatsby -- the issue was solved with double-checking all of my paths. I was using React/Gatsby with Sass and the Gatsby source files were looking for the fonts in a different place than the compiled files. Once I duplicated the files into each path this problem was gone.

In my case when downloading a template the font files were just empty files. Probably an issue with the download. Chrome gave this generic error about it. I thought at first the solution of changing from woff to font-woff solved it, but it only made Chrome ignore the fonts. My solution was finding the fonts one by one and downloading/replacing them.

My case looked similar but the font was corrupted (and so impossible to decode). It was caused by configuration in maven. Adding nonFilteredFileExtension for font extensions within maven-resources-plugin helped me:

If it is on the server (not in localhost), then try to upload the fonts manually, because sometimes the FTP client (for example, FileZilla) corrupts the files and it can cause the problem. For me, I uploaded manually using Cpanel interface.

I'm thinking along the lines of a favourite fonts list. I have probably over 500 fonts due to the the ones I've added to Windows font store over the years, usually for one off purposes and often involving PDN. A smaller favourite fonts list also allowing you to save the same font with different size/type settings might be helpful for specific projects too.

@IHaveNoName, I read in the forum recently (I looked but I can't find it now), a discussion about making the drop-down fonts list in PDN behave like the one in MS Word - i.e. list the most recently used fonts at the top, sort of like favourites.

A font that I downloaded from DAfont has disappeared from PDN. I see the name in the list with no preview. And when I try to type, nothing shows up. I am able to type it in a Word document and print it, so I know it's downloaded. (Using a laptop)

Sometimes there's a bug in Windows where you have to restart the app, or the system, and then it works. I haven't heard of this happening in awhile so maybe it was fixed, or maybe it wasn't, but it's worth a shot as a general troubleshooting idea.

Your fonts will show up here in alphabetical order, so that makes it somewhat easier to find them. But as you can see, I have TWO blank lines next to each other. Which one is it? Well, I know that I just downloaded Muggsy-Sketch-2, and I already have Pinsetter-Line-2 installed, so alphabetically, Muggsy must be the top one.

This has been a real experience, but, I have the answer.

First download the font correct name is aaaiight.ttf it may be in zip, if so unzip it and have the ttf file ready to copy.

Open Terminal, su to root and open thunar. In File System>usr>share>fonts>truetype open folder freefont. Either copy/paste or drag and drop aaaiight.ttf to this folder.

I should have looked in Synaptic first, lol. Font-manager's description mentions GNOME, but Xfce uses GTK2, so I figured it would at least run. I double-clicked it, clicked Apply, and waited for it to install. I was pleased to see that when I double-clicked it, Synaptic didn't mention installing anything else along with it, so no dependencies (that I don't already have installed, at least). While it was installing, I downloaded and extracted the font archive you mentioned...

Note that due to the nature of linux and Synaptic Package Manager, there are probably more font manager apps listed. I stopped looking when I found font-manager because it's late, I'm lazy, and the list of installable files that I got when I used font as a search term numbered 872 packages, lol.

Whenever you want to do something in linux, ask yourself if there's a possibility that you might NOT be the first person to have wanted to do it. If the answer is, "Yes," search in Synaptic to see if some helpful person has written an app to allow you to perform the task without having to actually know how to do it. The terminal and the various "under the hood" things in linux are great and powerful... and 99.999999% of the time, unnecessary . I love it. Now, if only Synaptic had some gardening apps, maybe I would have enough of a harvest to can....

Thank you MountainDewManiac, but if you read my post again, you'll see that I followed the usual steps mentioned in the web sites you suggested.

I always do my research before posting in a forum. I didn't mention it in my post, but yes, I did try using font-manager, and looked

through several other results in synaptic searching for alternatives. Seemingly the only other option remaining now is installing all

the necessary kde libraries just to install a few fonts, which I think you might agree on being overkill. After all, some fonts do get installed

simply by copying them where they belong to and then using fc-cache. I have no issues installing fonts from ubuntu repos.

I just tried using font-viewer to install Linux Biolinum, and despite now they were seen by font-manager, they were slashed as inactive.

After activation, they were still not seen by other programs, so no success yet.

ToZ, thanks for verifying this on your system. I don't get any error message besides

some ocassional cache cleaning problem, that doesn't appear after running fc-cache -fv again

(or its sudo version). I think there must be something going on with some of these specific fonts.

Since they are graphite versions of other fonts, I (just in case) verified I have installed the graphite libraries, and I do:

libgraphite2-2.0.0

libgraphite3

pango-graphite

I just had a thought: Since I was able to use font-manager to install the fonts that you mentioned having trouble with in your first post, do you feel that it would be helpful for me to do a search in Synaptic for all files installed on my system that contain the term "fonts" and to compile a list of said files (with their respective version numbers) so that you might see if there is something that is missing on your system that may not be readily apparent to you?

EDIT: I tried the first thing you suggested, but removed most of the text. That did give me some output. IDK if it is in any way, shape, or form comparable to what I would have gotten had the original text (in full) you specified been properly carried out. But here is what I got:

radioboy: Any progress on your issue? I'm still wondering why font-manager isn't working for you, since it worked fine for me using the same font file archive you tried, without my having bothered to place the extracted files into any special directory (and without my having any knowledge of the "accepted way" to install fonts in linux).

Hi MountainDew. I'm sorry I didn't answer earlier.

I contrasted your package list with mine and I couldn't find a package that made a difference on the issue. Thanks a lot for your help with that.

I tried installing some other packages (I don't remember which ones now), tried cleaning font chaches again, moved all the relevant user configuration folders to

a temporary one to start afresh with that, etc., to no avail. Since I really needed that font for some existing projects, but mainly due to several other problems

like wild changes in font kerning with different gtk themes, bad screen redrawing on window resizing, etc., I had to go back to kde.

Now things work alright, including of course the problematic fonts.

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