It turns out that the correct solution IS to create a file called local.conf in \Program Files\GIMP-2.0\etc\fonts - although Mario dismissed that in his post above.
Apparently, you should not edit fonts.conf (as suggested above) because it is a dynamically generated file and will be replaced by a new version anytime you make a configuration change and your edits will be lost. However, the font mamanager also parses local.conf and anything it finds there over-rides the matching settings in fonts.conf. The trick is that local.conf has to be a propoerly formatted XML file - it must contain the lines: <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig> <!-- settings go here --> </fontconfig> You can then copy whatever settings you want to over-ride from fonts.conf, paste it following the "<!-- settings go here -->" line and then edit it how you want. For our purposes, we need to over-ride the <cachedir> setting. So, this is what my local.conf file looks like (for GIMP 2.6 on Windows 7): <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig> <!-- settings go here --> <cachedir>~/.gimp-2.6/fonts/cache</cachedir> </fontconfig> The next time GIMP starts, it will create its font cache in \Users\<user-name>\.gimp-2.6\fonts\cache and this shouldn't get cleared out with your temp folder. -- Stuart (via gimpusers.com) _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
