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Originally Posted by KittyNin
Can someone explain how to get the plugin to see newly installed fonts? I see some other people had issues with it, but I don't actually quite understand what they did to fix it.
I'm on windows 10, the fonts are installed on my machine, but they don't show up in the list when I go to choose a font. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin.
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In Windows 10, there are more than one way to install fonts. The "traditional" way, now known as "install for all users", copies the fonts to the C:\Windows\Fonts folder and requires user privileges elevation (that is, it triggers UAC). Since that's an annoyance in, say, corporate environments in which end-users do not have admin rights and do not want to have to call IT to send a tech just to install a font, Win10 now defaults (if you right-click and select just "install" instead of "install for all users") to installing to your user profile. Fonts you get from the Windows Store also apparently get installed to your profile.
Thing is, many programs (and I think that includes the Generate Cover plugin) don't really support this newfangled fonts-in-the-user-profile thing and know only to look in the general Windows font repository. That's probably why you can't see all your fonts. The only real remedy is to reinstall those fonts for "all users." (You might want to uninstall them first, so you don't end up with duplicate files taking room in your disk)
A separate issue is that the Generate Cover plugin does not handle font variants well. In many cases, you might have several weights of the font installed, but Generate Cover will list only one or two. This has to do with the way fonts are organized into typefaces and families. It's a bit technical, but essentially, it depends on whether the font supplier registered, say, "myniftyfont bold" as a variant weight of "myniftyfont" or a separate font with a similar name. In the first case, you will only see whatever variant Windows considers the "main" one, and hide the others. There's no workaround I'm aware of, other than uninstalling all the variants of the typeface except the one you want to use.