Fonts not displaying; can't use certain style fonts

johnebaker wrote on 8/19/2019, 2:36 AM

Hi

It works fine with the Basic fonts.

Which font are you starting with and then changing to 8 bit Wonder?

Are you clicking the tick top right of the title box in the preview monitor to confirm the changes - clicking off the title on the timeline or elsewhere does not confirm the change?

HTH

John EB

johny_lovin_it wrote on 8/19/2019, 8:54 AM

@johny_lovin_it

Hi

It works fine with the Basic fonts.

Which font are you starting with and then changing to 8 bit Wonder?

Are you clicking the tick top right of the title box in the preview monitor to confirm the changes - clicking off the title on the timeline or elsewhere does not confirm the change?

HTH

John EB

I'm clicking on the check mark to confirm the font I want but it just doesn't show it after I do that. It's just the basic font on the first picture.

And I don't remember what font I started but does it matter?

johnebaker wrote on 8/21/2019, 8:50 AM

@johny_lovin_it

Hi

. . . . I don't remember what font I started but does it matter? . . . .

It would help knowing what you did start from, to try and replicate the issue, so the category and title name are necessary - otherwise we are just guessing.

. . . . It's just the basic font on the first picture. . . . .

Each font belongs to a named category and the icons have the name of the title effect on them as shown below

John EB

johny_lovin_it wrote on 8/21/2019, 6:53 PM

I didn't go to the templates. I just clicked on the title editor button beneath the preview screen and w/e it showed on it, I usually click on it to type w/e and on the right, where it says title editing, I click on the 'font' and select what I want which is 8-bit wonder and yeah, it doesn't display after I click on the check mark. I don't know what font it started with so I'm guessing 'Arial' but its not coming from the template like you're showing me.

I looked in the templates and 8-bit wonder is not listed. But why does that matter if I have the font on the title editor? I don't understand this cryptic function. I just wanna' use w/e font I download online onto the movie edit thing and this is just pissing me off that I have to go through all this struggle.

Anyway, what do you suggest? I was going to call magix but now I have to pay a voucher and I'm more mad that I have to pay to call for help.

johnebaker wrote on 8/22/2019, 3:13 AM

@johny_lovin_it

Hi

Using your method also works correctly - see clip below.

I am using the 8 Bit Wonder font from here. I suspect you may have a bitmap version of the font ie not a TrueType (TTF) font.

HTH

John EB

wongck wrote on 8/22/2019, 6:06 AM

I also tested the 8 bit wonder font. Did the same as John plus added another font just to be sure. The 8-bit wonder font reverted to some other font after pressing the tick (the word 8-bit on the picture) while the other test font was correctly displayed.

MEP 17.0.3.177

8-bit wonder font from dafont.com

wongck wrote on 8/22/2019, 6:16 AM

Also if I select title again by double clicking it, it will revert back to the 8-bit wonder font. Go figure.

johnebaker wrote on 8/22/2019, 6:45 AM

Hi

Just for completeness here is another example similar to @wongck test

@johny_lovin_it what graphics card do you have in your PC? @wongck has a NVidia GTX 960 and I am using the Intel UHD 630 integrated GPU.

John EB

johny_lovin_it wrote on 8/22/2019, 7:21 AM

GeForce GT 730 - Chip Type
Integrated RAMDAC - DAC Type

johny_lovin_it wrote on 8/22/2019, 7:47 AM

@johny_lovin_it

Hi

Using your method also works correctly - see clip below.

I am using the 8 Bit Wonder font from here. I suspect you may have a bitmap version of the font ie not a TrueType (TTF) font.

HTH

John EB

It is all ttf on my part

johnebaker wrote on 8/22/2019, 8:50 AM

@johny_lovin_it, @wongck

Hi

Do you have any other fonts, that you have downloaded, displaying the same problem?

The only commonality in this is that you both have older NVidia graphics cards - I would suggest raising a support ticket about this issue and link to this topic.

John EB

wongck wrote on 8/22/2019, 8:56 AM

weird that all my other downloaded TTF does not exhibit this behaviour.

i suspect the font itself. Another 8-bit font I downloaded shows the non-blocky font set when i view it. Some parts were blocky while some parts note.

johny_lovin_it wrote on 8/22/2019, 9:07 AM

Yeah I downloaded the gameboy font of pokemon red and blue and got the same problem. But here's a weird thing, I downloaded the terminator font and that displays. Idk why that and not the others.

wongck wrote on 8/22/2019, 9:23 AM

Shows something like this on double clicking the TTF file.

wongck wrote on 8/22/2019, 9:48 AM

I used webfont test and uploaded 8-bit wonder, it did not show up with the blocky text.

http://webfont-test.com/

johnebaker wrote on 8/22/2019, 10:19 AM

@wongck

Hi

Same here, tried 3 different fonts I downloaded and 8 BIT Wonder was the only one that did not display correctly.

However this does not explain why the font works for me in MEP. I think we can rule out Windows version as we are on the same version Windows 10 1903.

@johny_lovin_it

What version number of MEP are you using?

John EB

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wongck wrote on 8/22/2019, 6:58 PM

Why it worked for you and not for me? Only thing I can think of is the code-pages that somewhat depends on locale. But I changed my system to US locale and tried, still the same issue. So I am at a lost as well other than your MEP probably more updated than mine (mine stopped updating since last year after that no-sound fiesta... lucky me).

Anyway, if you look at the 8-bit wonder font's information via one of the many online TTF font tester available, you can see that it has very small number of glyphs and other font "stuffs" compared to others fonts that "worked". So it is just that particular font unfortunately. But then, that font does work in MS Word, so it may pretty well be an issue with older version of MEP... IDK.

johny_lovin_it wrote on 8/22/2019, 7:08 PM

At first I didn't understand MEP until a couple hours later I realized 'Movie Edit Pro.' The latest one; the premium one. Version number? Idk but its this one.

https://www.amazon.com/MAGIX-Movie-Edit-2019-Premium/dp/B07GS87D76

johnebaker wrote on 8/22/2019, 7:16 PM

@johny_lovin_it

Hi

Sorry for the abbreviation - you will find that most Magix program names are abbreviated when posting.

The version number is under Help, About - 2019 was superceded by the release of 2020 in the last week, this is why it is helpful to have the version number.

John EB

johny_lovin_it wrote on 8/22/2019, 7:49 PM

@johny_lovin_it

Hi

Sorry for the abbreviation - you will find that most Magix program names are abbreviated when posting.

The version number is under Help, About - 2019 was superceded by the release of 2020 in the last week, this is why it is helpful to have the version number.

John EB

Its 18.0.3.261 (UDP3)

johnebaker wrote on 8/23/2019, 2:19 AM

@johny_lovin_it

Hi

Thanks for the version number, this confirms you have MEP 2019.

I was on the same version number for my first post on this issue.

I would recommend you raise a support ticket through the Contact link at the bottom of the page.

John EB

johny_lovin_it wrote on 8/23/2019, 6:52 AM

I already did. I had to pay $14 for a voucher. ~_~

Ymer wrote on 8/8/2020, 7:48 AM

OK, I know I'm late to the party but since I found what I think may be a solution to this I'll just leave it here for future users.

After reading this I was about to uninstall the font that was not working for me (IllusionJETM, which btw was a .ttf) and do a cleanup in the fontcache and registry (if maybe something got stuck there and a regular reinstall was not working), when I noticed the installation path. It was installed in:

%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts

which got me thinking that it was not installed system wide and only for the current user. So I search some more about installing fonts system wide and found this:

How to Install Fonts in Windows 10

After following that it installed to:

%WINDIR%\Fonts

and when I reopened Movie Edit my font displayed correctly all the time.

With this info on hand I think it's safe to say that Movie Edit needs a system wide installed font to work properly all the time. Hope this helps sort out this problem for everybody else.

Scenestealer wrote on 8/12/2020, 5:46 PM

@Ymer @Ymer @johnebaker @wongck

Thanks for the info and link.

Peter