Installed OTF font styles are missing in certain programs

[chrisra]

Hi everyone,

I have an issue where certain OTF fonts are not recognized. This happens when there's a family of fonts, each with their own file, and in the metadata they all have the same name, but a different style.

Some of these then won't show up Inkscape or LibreOffice. However they do appear in Scribus! If someone knows a difference in libraries or tools used between these programs, this might point us to a solution.

Refreshing the font cache (fc-cache -fv) shows these fonts being found. Examples of its output:

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/home/chris/.fonts/Fira_otf: caching, new cache contents: 35 fonts, 0 dirs
[...]
/home/chris/.fonts/KlinicSlab_Personal_License: caching, new cache contents: 8 fonts, 0 dirs
[...]

where 18 of 35 and 2 of 8 are found, respectively. You can download the first one here: https://github.com/bBoxType/FiraSans/archive/master.zip
For example, Fira Sans Two, Four and Eight are among those not showing up. If you have a minute, I'd be grateful if you could test it for yourself.

Best,
Chris

[Flemur]

A search shows -
- install libotf and libotf-bin (not installed by default for me)
- put the fonts in /usr/share/fonts/opentype/.
- sudo fc-cache -fv

[chrisra]

Thanks for the suggestions!

A search shows -
- install libotf and libotf-bin (not installed by default for me)

libotf is installed, I checked that already before posting. Installing libotf-bin: no change.
(Building font cache: no change. Sudo-building font cache: no change.)

- put the fonts in /usr/share/fonts/opentype/.

Moved them over, no change.
(Building font cache: no change. Sudo-building font cache: no change. The fonts are being found in the new location.)

- sudo fc-cache -fv

As you can see in my description, it's not an issue with the font cache. Else Scribus would not find them, either, unless it does something super unreasonable and bypasses it. What was your idea in giving it sudo privileges? fc-cache doesn't need them.