Fontbase Font Manager and Inkscape

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I finally solved how to get FontBase fonts to work with Inkscape — and potentially fonts that are managed with a different font manager. I use way too many fonts to just “install them all into Windows” without having problems. Switching to a font manager solved that and allowed me to access my fonts as needed in software like Affinity Designer, but I couldn’t get them to work in Inkscape.

With the newly released Inkscape 1.0, I felt it was time to try out Inkscape again — I’ve always liked how it was trying to provide all the functionality of CorelDraw (without the huge price tag). Free is a compelling price.

But I need my fonts to work, or it isn’t worth anything!

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More about instant.page

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Everybody wants to make WordPress run faster, but nobody wants to mess with code. Eric Shefferman Something recently made me remember to look at the instant.page website to see that it was still there and check if there’s anything new. As I recall, to use the script I linked to the exact script that was … Read more

https://instant.page/1.1.0

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my discussion here:Site speedup – preloading pages on mouseover Note: Since the license of this instant.page thing is very permissive and since I want to have a backup copy of it in case the Cloudflare hosted copy disappears one day, here is a copy of the code: from https://instant.page/license instant.page’s license © 2019 Alexandre Dieulot … Read more

Site speedup – preloading pages on mouseover

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I came across this clever thing for making a website seem faster to user. This is pretty clever since a lot of what makes a computer “seem” fast is the way it responds to the user moreso than how fast it is. I recall this was an early Apple Macintosh trick – make *something* happen … Read more