It would be nice if Blender would know how to automatically find font files in OS-specific locations.
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wooderton2
29 Oct 2017
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jason
Should these paths be hard-coded or user-defined in User Preferences? I'd personally prefer the latter.
If it's just that, then technically, this feature should be pretty easy to add. I would just like to avoid actually
loading
all of the available fonts like some other graphics applications do (GIMP, Photoshop, etc.) because that could dramatically reduce Blender's launch time if you have a lot of fonts.
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wooderton2Author
I think there should be shortcuts to the standard installation locations. Or better yet, simply listed from the standard locations.
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jason
The defaults of course would be the typical places on each operating system (like how the Temp directory is currently handled). But I think it definitely should be user-configurable... especially for operating systems where there can be multiple locations for fonts.
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dshylton
this would be nice. Currently what I do is I find where the font folder is and save it as a favorite folder in blender.
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Should these paths be hard-coded or user-defined in User Preferences? I'd personally prefer the latter.
If it's just that, then technically, this feature should be pretty easy to add. I would just like to avoid actually loading all of the available fonts like some other graphics applications do (GIMP, Photoshop, etc.) because that could dramatically reduce Blender's launch time if you have a lot of fonts.
I think there should be shortcuts to the standard installation locations. Or better yet, simply listed from the standard locations.
The defaults of course would be the typical places on each operating system (like how the Temp directory is currently handled). But I think it definitely should be user-configurable... especially for operating systems where there can be multiple locations for fonts.
this would be nice. Currently what I do is I find where the font folder is and save it as a favorite folder in blender.