"No FontName. Skipping" during font_import()

[wch]

"No FontName. Skipping" during font_import()

[Bustami]

I was dealing with this issue on Windows 10 until yesterday.
I found this solution and now the package {extrafont} works fine.
Problem with function "font_import()" was solved this way:

library(remotes)
remotes::install_version("Rttf2pt1", version = "1.3.8")
library(extrafont)
loadfonts(device = "win")
fonts()

[DavidZenz]

I was dealing with this issue on Windows 10 until yesterday.
I found this solution and now the package {extrafont} works fine.
Problem with function "font_import()" was solved this way:

library(remotes)
remotes::install_version("Rttf2pt1", version = "1.3.8")
library(extrafont)
loadfonts(device = "win")
fonts()

worked for me too, but you will have to add

import_fonts() before loadfonts(device = "win")

[beanumber]

@moritzpschwarz I have this problem for all font files, using Ubuntu 20.04. I don't think the problem is the files themselves, as they were working with extrafont on previous version of Ubuntu and R.

@wch What are the limitations of ttf2pt1 and how could this problem resurface if the ttf2pt1 hasn't changed?

[Romain-B]

library(remotes)
remotes::install_version("Rttf2pt1", version = "1.3.8")

worked fine for me as well, on Unix (R v4.1.1).

Thanks for the fix @Bustami !

[pteridin]

Problem occuring in Windows as well. All fonts are affected as well.

[moritzpschwarz]

I have encountered the same issue on Windows, is there any solution to this? The file permissions are in order.

I provided further details on a Stackoverflow post

I have tried to provide a workaround in the Stackoverflow post. I'm guessing that the issue is connected to a faulty .ttf file. Using the open-source software FontForge to re-save the .ttf file did the trick for me.

[Jim89]

Realise this issue is now over 3 years old, but I encountered a similar problem with a font with 'No FontName'.

Turned out the .tff file permissions were different from the other fonts on my system (Mac, for reference). Setting the font file to be rwx for the 'other' user with $ chmod +orwx [font file] fixed the issue for me.

[psychtek]

I was dealing with this issue on Windows 10 until yesterday.
I found this solution and now the package {extrafont} works fine.
Problem with function "font_import()" was solved this way:
library(remotes)
remotes::install_version("Rttf2pt1", version = "1.3.8")
library(extrafont)
loadfonts(device = "win")
fonts()

worked for me too, but you will have to add
import_fonts() before loadfonts(device = "win")

I tried these recommendations on a mac (iOS 10.15.7). Didn't work for me.

Having same issue today:

R version 4.1.1 (2021-08-10)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Big Sur 11.5.2

[don-reba]

Ran into the same problem. Ttf2pt1 seemed to have encoding issues. Fixed it by renaming the font with the freeware CR8 Type Light: I left all the names as they were, saved a copy of the font in a folder, and installed it with font_import(paths=<folder>).

[michaellatter]

Try the showtext package for adding fonts to r, its an alternative to extrafont that I have had a lot more success with.

https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/showtext/vignettes/introduction.html

[mvuorre]

For those of you who have problems with this on a mac, try installing the xcode command line tools (and approve):

xcode-select --install
sudo xcodebuild -license accept

This works with extrafont 0.17 on macOS 12.0.1.

[robbienukes]

I was dealing with this issue on Windows 10 until yesterday.
I found this solution and now the package {extrafont} works fine.
Problem with function "font_import()" was solved this way:
library(remotes)
remotes::install_version("Rttf2pt1", version = "1.3.8")
library(extrafont)
loadfonts(device = "win")
fonts()

worked for me too, but you will have to add

import_fonts() before loadfonts(device = "win")

This worked for me but I had to use font_import() before loadfonts(device = "win") instead of import_fonts()

Using Windows 11

[wch]

I have a possible fix in the Rttf2pt1 package (wch/Rttf2pt1#20). If you would like to try it out, please install this build of Rttf2pt1 the following and let me know how it goes:

library(remotes)
remotes::install_github("wch/Rttf2pt1#20")

[wch]

Unfortunately, these warnings are due to limitations in the ttf2pt1 program (the program hasn't been updated in many years) which extrafont uses via the Rttf2pt1 package.

[amackey]

Unfortunately, it also means I can't import the font I want using
ttf_import(), it seems to gets skipped

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Winston Chang [email protected]:

Unfortunately, these warnings are due to limitations in the ttf2pt1
program (the program hasn't been updated in many years) which extrafont
uses via the Rttf2pt1 package.

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/32#issuecomment-26608070
.

[davidmetzlaff]

I have encountered the same issue on Windows, is there any solution to this? The file permissions are in order.

I provided further details on a Stackoverflow post

[Stan1778]

I was dealing with this issue on Windows 10 until yesterday.
I found this solution and now the package {extrafont} works fine.
Problem with function "font_import()" was solved this way:
library(remotes)
remotes::install_version("Rttf2pt1", version = "1.3.8")
library(extrafont)
loadfonts(device = "win")
fonts()

worked for me too, but you will have to add

import_fonts() before loadfonts(device = "win")

I tried these recommendations on a mac (iOS 10.15.7). Didn't work for me.

[mabuimo]

I have the same problems in Windows.

require(extrafontdb)
require(Rttf2pt1)
library(extrafont)
font_import()

And I always get this message for all fonts:
C:\Windows\Fonts\ARIALNBI.TTF : No FontName. Skipping.

[clairerichardsRN]

I'm having the same problems and I had to install Rtools 4.0 from https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/ first
And I followed the above recs and it worked. Thanks so much

[kkulbir]

I was dealing with this issue on Windows 10 until yesterday.
I found this solution and now the package {extrafont} works fine.
Problem with function "font_import()" was solved this way:
library(remotes)
remotes::install_version("Rttf2pt1", version = "1.3.8")
library(extrafont)
loadfonts(device = "win")
fonts()

worked for me too, but you will have to add
import_fonts() before loadfonts(device = "win")

I tried these recommendations on a mac (iOS 10.15.7). Didn't work for me.

Having same issue today:

R version 4.1.1 (2021-08-10)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Big Sur 11.5.2

@psychtek Were you able to figure out a solution, I have the same issue and work on macOS Big Sur

[arunktiit]

Try the showtext package for adding fonts to r, its an alternative to extrafont that I have had a lot more success with.

https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/showtext/vignettes/introduction.html

The suggestion above by @michaellatter works seamlessly! I work with Mac OS Monterey 12.0.1. Thank you.

[sjewo]

Thank you very much for fixing this issue!

The fix works for me on
R version 4.2.2 (2022-10-31)
MacOS 13.1, Apple M1

A strange observation for a pdf export: The "preview" application on Mac OS X does not use the correct fonts, while Inkscape (and poppler) display the plot correctly.