Some text fonts are not handled

[clemburt]

Issue type

Engraving bug

Bug description

Some text fonts are not handled (MuseScore4 regression)

Steps to reproduce

For example the BodoniMTBlack text font was handled by MuseScore3 but no longer in MuseScore4, and I tried .otf and .ttf extensions

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

MuseScore Version

MuseScore4.0.2

Regression

Yes, this used to work in MuseScore 3.x and now is broken

Operating system

Windows 10

Additional context

No response

[cbjeukendrup]

What do you mean specifically with "handled"? Are these fonts missing from the font picker control in the Inspector, or are they not rendered correctly in the score view?

[clemburt]

The text fonts are missing, not displayed in the menu "Properties > Text > Font" when I open a score engraved with MuseScore3 and whose title was using the BodoniMTBlack font

[clemburt]

[clemburt]

The BodoniMTBlack font I used: https://fr.maisfontes.com/bodoni-mt-black-2.police

[Jojo-Schmitz]

Had that font it been installed system-wide or just for the user? I'm asking because there had been such a problem in Mu3, see https://musescore.org/en/node/280244, fixed in 3.5.0

[clemburt]

@Jojo-Schmitz I am not sure to understand what you mean by "just for the user" Here is a screen of the font properties in Windows parameters:

[MarcSabatella]

The install location shows that this was installed only for user "clement". It generally works better when installing fonts to choose the option to install for all users.

[clemburt]

@MarcSabatella I tried right-clicking on the file C:\Users\Clement\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts\bodoni-mt-black-2.ttf and selecting "install for all users", then I restarted my PC but it didn't change anything

[Jojo-Schmitz]

OK, then my theory is busted... Anyway: I download and installed the font and it does show in MuseScore 4.0.2 on Windows 11

[zacjansheski]

I am also able to use the font without issue. It might help to revert MuseScore to factory settings.

[clemburt]

I tried to revert MuseScore to factory settings, uninstall and reinstall it, it didn't work :-(

[clemburt]

Maybe the issue is linked to Windows 10

[Jojo-Schmitz]

Well possible, make sure you're uptodate reg. all the Windows patches

[iainhallam]

I have the same problem with ETbb font, from https://ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/etbb/opentype - works fine in Word and I've converted these OTF files to WOFF2 for web use where it looks great, but MuseScore can't see them though they're in the C:\Windows\Fonts folder after having been installed for all users.

Running Windows 11 Pro 22H2 (22621.1992) with no updates outstanding.

[clemburt]

Are you all running MuseScore4 under Windows 11? Cause I tried to open the my file on another PC and the text font was not recognized as well either And both PC I tried have Windows 10 (they can't be upgraded to Windows 11 because their processor is not supported)

[clemburt]

I have upgraded my PC from Windows 10 to Windows 11 it didn't solve the issue

[iainhallam]

My last report was on my Win11 laptop. But I see the same on my Windows 10 Pro 22H2 (19045.3208) desktop - ETbb font is installed and usable in other applications, but Musescore 4.1.1 can't see it.

[clemburt]

I found workarounds for the following text fonts:

• Bodoni MT Black Regular Many files downloadable from different websites, only this one is recognized by MuseScore4: https://fontsgeek.com/bodoni-mt-black-font
• Black Signature The .otf file downloadable with this link is not recognized by MuseScore4: https://www.dafont.com/black-signature.font But if you convert it to .ttf with this Python module, it works: https://pypi.org/project/otf2ttf/

[marcstober]

I'm also having this issue with Libertinus Sans (7.4.0).

Installing for all users and restarting MuseScore didn't fix the issue. It's probably worth noting that I have all the Libertinus fonts (i.e., Mono, Display, etc.) installed for just the current user, but only Libertinus Serif shows up.

Here's the string with the MuseScore Studio and OS versions copied from Help > About: MuseScore Studio OS: Windows 11 Version 2009 or later, Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore Studio version (64-bit): 4.4.1-242490810, revision: github-musescore-musescore-0b3dd00

[marcstober]

Possible duplicate of #16188 ?