The font doesn't seem to work for me am I doing somthing wrong? all other fonts seem to work when using text and font but these one seems to put nothing.

It sounds like the font is installed, and available in the Text tool dropdown menu (or Text and Font dialog), correct? When you say the font "puts nothing", it sounds like you type letters, but they don't show up, correct? Is that both in the Text and Font dialog, and on the canvas?

If you're using the Text and Font dialog, you have to be sure to click Apply. If you're on the canvas, it should show immediately....well, when you first start to type on the canvas, it will type your default font. Then you have to change it to your font. (Annoying, I know )

If those tips don't get it working.....hhmm.... Well, if it's a free font, and you can give us a link, we could download, then we could install it and test. Generally, Inkscape seems to be very picky about fonts. If it isn't well made and very stable, Inkscape apparently can't use it. So even if we can test, we still can't fix it to work in Inkscape -- just confirm that it doesn't work.

I don't know if it might be possible to use another program, like maybe GIMP, where you could type the text in that font. And I don't even know for sure if GIMP can do this. But I was thinking if you could type it in GIMP and convert to path, then open the path/file with Inkscape. I know GIMP has a path tool, but I don't know if text can be converted to path in GIMP.

Other than that, I'm afraid you'll have to find a similar font that's more stable

Weird. I just tried and and it works for me... My understanding of fonts is not very good, but for what I can tell there's nothing wrong with it. It sure lacks a lot of symbols, but that's normal for any font. Are you trying to type some particular characters or just any roman roman chars?

PS: http://www.dafont.com/fiolex-girls.font.

It doesnt show up on the canvas and I did push apply it does show up on the text and font the fiolex girl font was there when I installed inkscape I guess I might download gimp or do the cursive font and draw hearts (which I normally cannot get very right) and uktrunie all I put in text and font was Rosie Drew yoville designs but scince that didnt work I tested it again and put random words in it that seemed to not go on the cavas either I even tried a diffrent color thinking maybe it came out the same color white as the canvas. I have no idea why it not working for me scince I didn't download it it came with inkscape

After you type the text on the canvas, do you see the bounding box, which appears to be empty? While it's still selected (bounding box is showing) look at the style indicator in bottom left corner. What does it show for fill and stroke? If it's transparent, you'll see a checkerboard pattern rather than a color. Try changing the color after you type it and before you deselect it. Still nothing? Check for layer opacity. Could you be typing it on a tranparent layer?

It did not come from Inkscape. Inkscape strictly uses fonts that are already installed on the system, and doesn't contain or install any fonts. It might be that some other program installed it, and you didn't notice.

But I'm starting to think it's something in the Inkscape doc, since Uktrunie can use it, and not that the font is unstable. When you go to File menu > Inkscape Preference > Text, what are the settings there? Is it set for last used style, or this tool's own style?

Try View > Display Mode > Outline - if the text is there, but there's a problem with colour, opacity or some similar visibility issue then you should be able to see it in outline mode.

Yes I stil see the bounding box the box is red. The style idicator is black for fill and no stroke I used a blank cavas so there was no layer opacity and what I meant by coming from inkscape was that I never downloaded anything it was there when I downloaded inkscape so I assumed that the font was already installed on the system through if it wasn't then I have no idea what installed it because I barely download things for fear of viruses.
inkscape prefrences are put on these tools own style.
and xav I just put what you said and the outline is still not there its like the font is there but nothing can see it.

inkscape doesn't install any fonts. try downloading, then uninstall and finally re-install the font. start or restart inkscape and see how you go. if you don't know how the font got onto your computer, neither do we which would be enough reason to question a valid install of the font.

When you say "there was no layer opacity", I'm assuming you mean that the Opacity is 100%. Because if Opacity is 0, that means that the layer is transparent.

When you say that the bounding box is red, do you mean that it's filled with red, like a red rectangle, or that the dotted line is red? For some reason, I seem to recall that you use Windows. But in Windows, the bounding box should be black dotted line.....well, I guess depending on the background color, it could appear red....but not usually -- usually yellow or white, if not black.

I think we're getting somewhere though, with the red bounding box. Have you drawnn a red rectangle on the canvas? I know that you said you checked to make sure that the text wasn't white. But maybe you have a white rectangle that's covering it? Or red?

rosie drew wrote:Yes I stil see the bounding box the box is red. (…)

Hmm, a red bounding box? Does it have thin solid linestyle (i.e. not dashed), and is only visible as long as the object is selected with the text tool? Possibly you are using a flowed text object with a too small initial frame size to fit the characters of the first word in the newly assigned font… (i.e. the message in the status bar notifies you with "Type or edit flowed text (0 characters [truncated]; …"). Try to create a new regular text instead (don't click-drag with the text tool, simply click once and start typing the text, then change the font to "Firolex Girls").

Chris I thought it might have been a basic font that was already on inkscape I guess ill try downloading but I have no idea how to unistall it scince I have no idea how it got there in the first place.

brynn Yes its at 100% sorry on the way I said it. The bounding box is red if the bounding box you refer to is the text box on the canvas through is only appears red after I try the font strangely and yes I do use windows Im not sure which version of windows through I have it set on a white background.

I opened ink cape to a new document and was going to put the drawing there which I had saved on svg after I dealed with the text so there is nothing covered there.

And suv yes its not dashed oh!! I haven't checked that status bar it normally confuses me but yes it says I have flowed text and notify's me about it and type and edit it but I did why you said and the font still isn't appearing when you mean new regular text like making a default font? if How do you do that? ive never seen anything like that on inkscape I googled it but didn't see anything about doing that.

to uninstall a font in windows is straightforward: make sure you're logged in with an account that has admin rights, click Start > Settings > Control Panel. double click fonts icon. You'll get a windows explorer (the file manager in windows) showing you the contents of the folder containing all the fonts installed on windows. you can select the font you want to uninstall and either use file menu and delete or simply press delete key and confirm deletion.
if your login account doesn't have admin rights, windows won't let you delete / uninstall the font.

I get a little confused about flowed text and regular text myself. But there are 2 ways to start putting text in an Inkscape doc. One, you just click once, do not click and drag, just click and start typing. If for some reason, your text is really huge, try zooming out. But you should see it that way.

(~suv, you're a genius!)

The other way is to click and drag. That creates a text box for your text. This makes flowed text. But if the font size is much larger then the box, the box will appear empty. That's what ~suv thinks is happening. And I'm thinking she's probably right!

You can do a couple of things. You can just click once, don't drag, and start typing. That makes regular text (not default, but regular). Or if you still want to click and drag a text box, do that. Then look at the font size, and make it small enough until you can see the text in the box. I'm not sure if you can drag the box larger. But if you can, that would probably work too.

The first way worked thank you so much brynn suv and everyone you all are geniuses in inkscape!

You keep talking here about "having to install the font" in Inkscape first...... need to step back about 25 technical levels.... I cannot even figure that much out! Have looked all over the menu options, checked the manual, even right-clicked some stuff (very out of character for me). Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks!

You don't install the font in Inkscape. You install it on your computer. Then Inkscape can access it. On Windows 7, after you download it, double click on either the ttf or otf file (depending if it's a true type font or open type font). Double-clicking the zip file won't work. Double-click on ttf or otf file after you unpack or unzip the zip file. That will open a little window showing how the font looks. And it also has an Install button. Click Install.

I'm afraid that I have no idea how to install fonts on a Mac. It may be quite different, I'm just not sure.

font install on OSX is similar to Windows. Here's someone's short writeup and advice http://kb.iu.edu/data/aklg.html
inkscape does use the fonts installed on the operating system. only mentioned about Adobe inDesign because it's an example of an application that has extra fonts that aren't available to other applications.

Thanks for the feedback.... have installed fonts on both PC and Mac.... think I must have misunderstood about installing the fonts into Inkscape.... I have another application I use at work where you have to actually install into the application after you download to the PC... as always, you guys are great responders!!!!