Non-admin installed fonts on Windows are not found by PrintDraft

Question

A user reported on another list that a font they installed on Windows 10 was not working with PrintDraft. Windows 10 has recently changed to allow non-administrators to install fonts. However, such user installed fonts are placed in a different location that admin installed fonts, and might not be listed in the Windows registry.

I suspect the issue is with XeTeX, or xdvipdfmx (which is called by XeTeX) or one of the libraries XeTeX uses (such as FreeType or fontconfig). Thus I don’t think (at the current time) any change should be made to Paratext.

I mention the issue here for two reasons

1. So users know of this issue and can install fonts as an administrator, thus working around the issue.
2. Paratext developers might be able to also do a simple workaround, and list the full path to the needed font file in the generated .tex files used with PrintDraft. However, if the issue is (let’s say with fontconfig) not finding user installed fonts when called by XeTeX, Paratext could possibly have the same issue if Paratext called fontconfig.

Answer 1

Further discussion on this issue is on a public issue at

github.com/sillsdev/ptx2pdf

Title for ToC doesn't support Indic chars

opened 04:26AM - 23 Nov 19 UTC

closed 05:02PM - 24 Apr 20 UTC

beniza

When tried to change the title of the ToC, the text didn't appear correctly on the tool. Please see the screenshot...

Comments

Thanks, this solved it:

Uninstall the font file, and then right-click on the font and select the Administrator option of “Install for all users”.

Remember to extract the font file from the .zip archive before right-clicking on it.