Issues with loading fonts with CreateFonts

Processing Coding Questions
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Hi there, I am having issues loading fonts that I have installed on my Windows fonts folder .
The message that I get every time is "
“PPEiko-Medium” is not available, so another font will be used. Use PFont.list() to show available fonts."
I get this message for all the fonts that I install … can somene helps please

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Did you create a font from the tools menu? if not that’ll be the issue

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Hi
Here is some hints

4

Hi there, yes I did and also followed all the previous posts about this issue but i still cant find a way to load the fonts :frowning:

5

Hi there,I have addeted the font in the sketch with the font tool but it still gives me the same error :frowning:

6

Hi
This is how I added font
1 Download the font file without processing IDE
2 drag or add the file to sketch folder

Here is the 7 segment font file download it

Then in processing side

PFont Segment ; 

 void setup() {
                          
  size(640,320);    
  Segment = createFont("Segment7", 150);  // Assign fonts and size 
  }
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Hi there I just followed your steps but i still get the error please see screenshot

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Hello @bardo ,

Be sure to use the name of the font in the PFont list:

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Reference:
https://processing.org/reference/createFont_.html

:)

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Hi there, the problem is that a lot of the fons that are installed correclty in windows and work correclty in all my programs, they wont show in the font list. Acually I can also see a very limited number of fonts in the font list. Also there are some fonts that are included in the font list but still give the error (please see screenshot)

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hi

PFont Segment;

void setup() {
  size(600, 180);                      
  Segment = createFont("Segment7Standard.otf", 120); 
textFont(Segment);
 //textAlign(RIGHT);       
  fill(250,250,0);   
}

void draw()
{                      
  background(0, 0, 0);   

  textFont(Segment);
  text("123 JAFAL", 0, 120);
}

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Font from here

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Hey it’s loading the fonts now :slight_smile: but how can i make this work within this piece of code that i was tryng to make it work? Please se below:

float mutationRate = 0.01;
int totalPopulation = 250;

DNA population;
ArrayList matingPool;
String target;

PFont f;

void setup() {
size(800,800);
target = “KEEP SMILING”;

population = new DNA[totalPopulation];

for (int i = 0; i < population.length; i++) {
population[i] = new DNA(target.length());
}

f = createFont(“Courier”,12,true);
}

void draw() {
for (int i = 0; i < population.length; i++) {
population[i].calcFitness(target);
}

ArrayList matingPool = new ArrayList();
for (int i = 0; i < population.length; i++) {
int nnnn = int(population[i].fitness * 100);
for (int j = 0; j <nnnn; j++) {
matingPool.add(population[i]);
}
}

for (int i = 0; i < population.length; i++) {
int a = int(random(matingPool.size()));
int b = int(random(matingPool.size()));
DNA partnerA = matingPool.get(a);
DNA partnerB = matingPool.get(b);
DNA child = partnerA.crossover(partnerB);
child.mutate(mutationRate);
population[i] = child;
}

background(249,248,230);
fill(255,139,139);
String everything = “”;
for (int i = 0; i < population.length; i++) {
everything += population[i].getPhrase() + " ";
}
textFont(f,12);
text(everything,10,10,width,height);

}

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HEY! I Made it work!! Thank you :slight_smile: