Inkscape Portable currently does not recognize font handling as provided by the PortableApps.com Platform.
This will be fixed in the next release.
In the meantime, do the following to handle it:
Save a copy of X:\PortableApps\InkscapePortable\App\Inkscape\etc\fonts\conf.d\51-local.conf as X:\PortableApps\InkscapePortable\Data\01-portableapps.conf. Following this, add the line X:\PortableApps\PortableApps.com\Data\Fonts immediately after <fontconfig>, with X being replaced with your drive letter.
Following this, add the following to X:\PortableApps\InkscapePortable\App\AppInfo\Launcher\InkscapePortable.ini:
In the [FilesMove] section, add
01-local.conf=%PAL:AppDir%\App\Inkscape\etc\fonts\conf.d
and add the following at the end of the file:
[FileWrite8] Type=Replace File=%PAL:DataDir%\01-portableapps.conf Find=%PAL:LastDrive%%PAL:LastPackagePartialDir%\ Replace=%PAL:Drive%%PAL:PackagePartialDir%\ [FileWrite9] Type=Replace File=%PAL:DataDir%\01-portableapps.conf Find=%PAL:LastPortableAppsBaseDir%\ Replace=%PAL:PortableAppsBaseDir%\ [FileWrite10] Type=Replace File=%PAL:DataDir%\01-portableapps.conf Find=%PAL:LastDrive%\ Replace=%PAL:Drive%\
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I am not following your last portion of "Save a copy of " where you state "Immediately after (space), With X being replaced..." Not sure where that *is* directing me to add the line.
Here is the content of my 51-local.conf file
<?xml version="1.0"??>local.conf
Thanks for your help! Much appreciated and also thank you for your time!
Rob
I apologize, evidently that line didn't display properly. I've now fixed it.
I ended up editing my 51-local.conf file as it sits without copying it to another location. I altered it this way... I added my local directory below the local.confC:\Users\user\Documents\PortableApps\PortableApps.com\Data\Fonts
And this worked for me... I tried the copy the conf file and updating with my c:\drive info... it didn't work for me (Windows 10). Unless there is a major reason this shouldn't be working, I'll keep this as the new fonts are showing up and functional in InkScape.
THANKS for the detailed help Gord!!
Rob
I had this working and now it isn't working. Has Portable Apps changed or Inkscape? ** honestly I think one of these apps went through an update which I didn't think it would effect the font function**
This is not yet supported in Inkscape Portable. It will be supported upon the release of 0.92.3.
Until then, you'll need to follow the instructions above. Note that the edits you made originally would not have been saved, as this isn't supported yet, so the 0.92.2 release did not know about them.
Thanks Gord for the response and update!
This is fixed in Inkscape Portable 0.92.3
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So is 0.92.3 supposed to have fonts work by default? I'm running 0.92.3 on win7 and am still having issues. I cannot get fonts to load into inkscape portable on a fresh install, nor after the workaround described above.
Provided that you're using fonts through the platform as indicated here, Inkscape Portable will see those fonts and add them to the list of available fonts to use.
If this is not working for you, please start a new topic describing exactly what is occurring, along with system details (OS version, 32 vs 64-bit, install path, new vs upgrade, etc).
Hello Gord, I am now in the same situation as Yeet was. I installed both PortableApps.com Platform 15.0.2 and Inkscape Portable 0.92.3 on Windows 7 64bit [Build: 7601]. I put my OTF files into the PortableApps' Fonts folder and my Photoshop could show them correctly. However, the Inkscape could not load the OTF files. I followed the above instructions, still could not make it.
For your information, both PortableApps.com Platform and Inkscape were fresh installs. The install path was "D:\Documents and Settings\Michael\PortableApps".
Your help is appreciated.
Yesterday I've spend all day trying to make fonts work with no luck! Today I made PortableApps fresh install and still nothing is working.
I'm on Win10 64bit.
1. Also I've discovered that latest Inkscape Portable version config ( 01-portableapps.conf ) points to different Font folder:
C:\Users\XXX\PortableApps\InkscapePortable\Data\Fonts
not to
C:\Users\XXX\PortableApps\PortableApps.com\Data\Fonts
2. location to fonts folder in 01-portableapps.conf is also not as described above: not added straight after line, but after section.
I've tried to make changes as it was described in header, but that didn't solve anything. Hope it will be fixed.
Finally I was able to solve the issue!
This is my solution:
1. Go to C:\Users\XXX\PortableApps\InkscapePortable\App\Inkscape\etc\fonts Folder
2. Open fonts.conf file in Editor
3. Find line with "<dir>WINDOWSFONTDIR</dir>"
3. Add new line below with any custom font folder location.
(I used C:\Users\XXX\PortableApps\InkscapePortable\Data and copied my font files there)
<dir>C:\Users\XXX\PortableApps\InkscapePortable\Data</dir>
4. Save. Restart Inkscape, Enjoy!
Wow! I just tried your method and now it works like charm!
Thank you so much!
Apparently in v1.0.1 there are options for loading fonts from "Inkscape's fonts directory" and "User's fonts directory" (might be in previous versions too, I never checked). I didn't want to put fonts in Inkscape's font directory in
App\Inkscape\shareas they may be deleted in an upgrade. And I couldn't get it to load fonts from the user directory (Data\settings\fonts) either. I don't use the platform app so I didn't want them in the portableapps.com font folder.I found that during startup, Inkscape tries to read a
Data\settings\.fonts.conffile, if you create this file and put the below XML in it, then it will load the fonts fromData\settings\fonts. To make this file in Windows, name it with a leading space character, i.e.: ".fonts.conf". Windows will take out the space and leave the dot.Looks like you'll have to do a search and replace on this to get the <, > and " symbols back (< = <, < = >, " = "), this forum does not play well with XML.
There's no variable paths in it either, so you don't need rewrite lines in the launcher.ini.
It's set to load from Data\Fonts by default, not Data\settings\Fonts. The 01-portableapps.conf handles this and the launcher moves it around and portablizes it. If you somehow altered this, you can reset it by copying 01-portableapps.conf from InkscapePortable\App\DefaultData to InkscapePortable\Data while the app is closed.
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I just copied my fonts into
Data\Fontsand copied the01-portableapps.conffile intoData\, then renamed my previously created conf file so Inkscape wouldn't use it. Still no good.I can see that the path in the
01-portableapps.conffile is being modified with the absolute path to myData\Fontsbut they still don't appear in the app.I even re-downloaded the InkscapePortable installer and did an install into a new directory, ran it once, then closed it. I see that it has created more directories in
Data\settingsthan I have in my existing InkscapePortable (I've been using it a long time, I think I might have copied my settings over from a portable zip version from the Inkscape site) and the01-portableapps.conffile is there. I then copied my fonts toData\Fonts(with a capital F as well, on the slight chance that it would matter), Inkscape still didn't load them.Oh well, my way works, just in case anyone has the same issues I was having, it's here for posterity.
I have an updated fix I'm going to implement for current Inkscape Portable. To test, please open up your InkspacePortable.ini file within the InkspacePortable\App\AppInfo\Launcher directory and replace with this:
Next, explore to InkscapePortable\App\DefaultData, open up the 01-portableapps.conf and replace with this:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig> <its:rules xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" version="1.0"> <its:translateRule translate="no" selector="/fontconfig/*[not(self::description)]"/> </its:rules> <description>Load local customization file</description> <!-- Load local system customization file --> <dir>INITIALDATADIR\Fonts</dir> <dir>INITIALPORTABLEAPPSDIR\PortableApps\PortableApps.com\Data\Fonts</dir> <include ignore_missing="yes">local.conf</include> </fontconfig>Now copy that file to your InkscapePortable\Data directory and replace the existing one if there is one. This should allow both the PA.c\Data\Fonts folder to work as well as the InkscapePortable\Data\Fonts folder
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This is fixed in Inkscape Portable 1.1.1 released today
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