Bug 454837

Summary: Add support to display Fonts as images
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Jo <jo.y.venn>
Component: Plugin-DImg-WishForNewLoaderAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: caulier.gilles, metzpinguin
Priority: NOR    
Version: 7.6.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: macOS (DMG)   
OS: macOS   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
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Attachments: Font.jpg

Description Jo 2022-06-04 13:53:59 UTC 
SUMMARY
DAM software usually supports and displays also fonts, not "just" pictures and videos
I'm asking you to support common font formats:
- ttf
- otf
- more fonts types, if needed 

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Try to import a folder with fonts
2. Result = fonts don't show up

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
macOS: 1 0.14.6
Comment 1 Maik Qualmann 2022-06-04 16:44:28 UTC 
Fonts can be displayed in digiKam using the ImageMagick plugin. Just add "ttf" as Mime Type in digiKam Settings-> View-> Mime Type as Image.

Maik
Comment 2 Maik Qualmann 2022-06-04 16:49:15 UTC 
Created attachment 149462 [details]
Font.jpg

Here is a screenshot.

Maik
Comment 3 Jo 2022-06-14 12:13:23 UTC 
Great, i didn't know that mine types could do that, as the tooltip doesn't display that format. If imageMagick is a core component of digikam, then i suggest you to specify this mime type in the tooltip as well 

Now I've added "ttf" as custom image mime type and now fonts are visible as files in albums, but when i want to inspect them, then can't see any font examples in preview mode

imageMagick v. 7.6.0
DigiKam v. 7.6.0 (public stable rel)
Comment 4 caulier.gilles 2023-10-19 12:55:30 UTC 
@Jo,

digikam 8.2.0 pre-release have been rebuilt using last Qt 5.15.11 + KDE 5.110
frameworks. Installer is available at usual place :

https://files.kde.org/digikam/

Can reproduce the problem with this version?

Thanks in advance

Gilles Caulier
Comment 5 caulier.gilles 2024-09-17 13:27:57 UTC 
Jo,

I don't know where is the problem. The screenshot given by Maik is a preview generated by the Qt image plugin. What's missing ?

Gilles Caulier