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Is it possible to use fonts that are not locally installed (portable fonts)

#1

Hi,

I use Sublime Text a lot to write MarkDown at work. On my main pc I have locally my preferred font installed and I can use it in Sublime Text. But I also use Sublime Text on virtual machines (Terminal Server and Virtual Desktop Environment). In those use cases I can’t install anything. There I use ST 3 as a portable version.

Now to my question: is it somehow possible to include the fonts in a directory and to tell ST to load the fonts. That would be really cool.

It should be possible to load a font at runtime and use it without admin privileges. See here.

PortableApps can do that. Maybe ST 3 as well?

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#2

Unfortunately it is not currently possible. I did some work on investigating support for this, but it was kind of messy due to different APIs having constraints on different operating systems, so we decided to hold off on any implementation for right now.

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#3

Will, thanks for the quick reply. Than I will try this Portable Apps Workaround.

Is there already a feature request for that so that it might come in a future version?

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#4

I suppose you can also use a font manager like NexusFont for this.

On Linux, you can just copy (or symlink) fonts to your ~/.local/share/fonts folder.

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#5

This is not actually fonts, but you can use Font Generator here.

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