Font managers (like fontbase) adds fonts by adding shortcuts to the fonts directory, these are detected by most other programs, but not GIMP …
Any way this could be added support for?
This would be something the fontconfig library needs to recognize.
Is this on the Microsoft Windows platform, and is Fontbase using .lnk files to do this?
On Linux, the .font folder should normally be recognized automatically; you would need to reload fonts in GIMP (windows/dockable dialogues/Fonts has a refresh button at the bottom) or restart GIMP.
If GIMP doesn’t see the fonts, check with the fc-list command in a terminal window.
The older fontmanager program also links fonts into ~/.fonts - however, later practice is to use ~/.confg/fonts.conf and ~/.local/share/fonts instead. You could make a symbolic link so that ~/.local/share/fonts and ~/.fonts were the same directory, or you could edit ~/.config/fonts.conf to tell fontconfig where to look for fonts. (edit it CAREFULLY and e.g. use xmlling --noout .fonts.conf to make sure there are no syntax errors)
Yes, this was on Win10, I’m not sure if they are .lnk files, but they appear with a shortcut mark … I will try ask the source …
I will have a look at fc-list when I get home and see what I can find out.
.lnk files are Windows shortcuts, so it’s likely the case that you’re not copying the actual font, just a link to it.