fonts not loading onto Photoscape X

I'm trying to load paid fonts onto Photoscape and only a select amount of them are actually showing on the program. I've also checked other apps like word and it's a similar situation. My font books shows them as uploaded. Any ideas?

MacBook Air (2018 – 2020)

Posted on Sep 3, 2023 2:54 PM

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Sep 4, 2023 4:19 AM in response to kate288

What MacOS version are you using (Apple > About this Mac)?


In general, for problems with 3rd party apps, best consult the forums devoted to them by their makers, e.g.


https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_word-msoffice_unknown-mso_OPMac?sort=LastReplyDate&dir=Desc&tab=All&status=all&mod=&modAge=&advFil=&postedAfter=&postedBefore=&threadType=all&isFilterExpanded=true&page=1

Sep 4, 2023 11:48 AM in response to kate288

Shouldn't make the slightest difference. But just to make sure, I tried some new OpenType TrueType fonts, and some ancient (really ancient) .ttf fonts from the Windows 3.1 era. Both worked as expected.


What fonts are you trying to activate? That is, do they possibly conflict with those already installed by the OS? And, how are you trying to activate them? Font Book? Some other third party font manager?

Sep 5, 2023 4:13 PM in response to Kurt Lang

The specific fonts are "Vintage Forge Regular" (the other fonts in the family uploaded w/o issue.) and SP Blunt Regular (again, two others within the family uploaded fine). My font book shows that they alluploaded, but when I restart Photoscape to actually use them, they aren't all showing in my selection of choices.

Sep 5, 2023 4:31 PM in response to kate288

So some are showing, but not others of the same font family?


If so, then that's actually normal for this app. Many apps with font lists do this. You'll see the regular face in the font menu, but not italic or bold, etc., even though you know they're activated.


This app instead takes the lazy approach. If you want use italic, you first choose the regular font you can see in the list. Then click the italic attribute button below the fonts list.

Sep 9, 2023 4:08 AM in response to Kurt Lang

Thanks, that makes sense, but in the case of one font family it's loading the italic but not the regular. And in the case of another family, it's uploading the regular but not the script.


Do you think it's possible that both fonts didn't package correctly? The fonts came from a designer that purchased on my behalf when doing work for me. I'm grasping at straws here, but thinking about purchasing again directly and seeing what happens

Sep 9, 2023 7:54 AM in response to kate288

I certainly wouldn't purchase a font you've already paid for. The odds you'll get the exact same thing is nearly 100%.


My suspicion is the fonts are sharing an identical internal name (conflict). Neither the OS or any app then knows which is which.


If you don't mind, I could take a look at these and see what's going on with the font structures. Email a set to retoucher at jklstudios dot com.


You don't need to worry about me keeping a set for myself. Having been in prepress for over 40 years, I have at least 18,000 purchased fonts I almost never use for myself. They're all to have my own legal copies for working on client projects.

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