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avasam

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Can NOT call fonts in applications and GIMP text tool crash [SOLVED]

In my Arch App's such as Gimp and Wps-writer , my fonts are not loaded ( the font's name exists).
When I select a certain font in Wps-writer , it display me the following error:

The font 'SF Arabic' is not availbale on your system. Do you want to use this font anyway ?

But I am sure that the font exists in ~/.fonts directory.
If I accept YES, nothing will happen and the font of the text does not change !

This problem also exists for some fonts in Gimp, but it does not display any error.

How do I solve this problem?

UPDATE :
The above problem in Gimp was in Appimage version and When I install from the AUR the error is something else.
Gimp crashes when using text tool and It displays a long error start with :

/usr/lib/libgimpbase-2.0.so.0(gimp_stack_trace_print+0x409)

Last edited by avasam (2022-09-25 17:42:30)

avasam

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Re: Can NOT call fonts in applications and GIMP text tool crash [SOLVED]

I solve this problem.
Everything was about the version of this package : glib2
The following steps are useful to solve this problem :
1- install downgrade package.\
2- run this command in terminal to downgrade :  sudo downgrade glib2
3- select this version to install : 2.72.0 1 remote
4- test GIMP

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Can NOT call fonts in applications and GIMP text tool crash [SOLVED]

known issue, see https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75980
Currently downgrading glib2 seems to be the only option.

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