? about adding fonts to inkscape

[Vince 0]

How do you go about adding fonts to inkscape.  I have a program(disk) with 1000's of fonts and would like to add them so I can use them in inkscape.  If I use the program it will add the font to the pc's font folder but it doesnt and wont add it to inkscape.  Is there a way to manually add the fonts that I would like to use?  Im very new to this so this may be a dumb question but thanks for the replies.  Vince

[Jay2703 704]

This is from the InkScape FAQ page on the web. Check to see what version of InkScape you are using for the proper information.:

Inkscape does not see some of the fonts (Windows)

This was a bug in versions of Inkscape up to 0.43, caused by using an obsolete font cache. This cache is stored in the file called .fonts.cache-1. This file may be in your Windows folder, or in your Temp folder, or in "My documents" folder, or in the folder listed in the $HOME environment variable. Use file search by name to locate this file. Then simply delete this file and restart Inkscape; now it will see the new fonts.

If you are using 0.44 or 0.45 then OpenType/PostScript and Type1 fonts are not supported (this is a side-effect of the method used to fix the previous bug).

This issues with OpenType/PostScript and Type 1 fonts have been fixed in Inkscape 0.46.

Windows internally supports several different types of font:

[Vince 0]

Thanks for the reply.  I added 20 more fonts off the same disk and everything went fine.  Only the one font that I tried first still doesn't work(I guess there is something wrong with it and it just happened to be the one i was trying to use to see if I was doing it right before adding others).  Thanks again appreciate the help.  Vince