[Semi-Solved: not due KiCAD] PCBNew lost a Font, but it still present (and working) into the Operating System

[tormyvancool]

in a PCB I had the use of the font LASERIAN.
It was used in the prototypes without any issue.
Today I re-opened the project (PCBNew) to make some small change.

KiCAD informed that the LASERIAN font was not present and it substituted it with another.
bu in Windows, Laserian FONT is still present and working fine

Application: KiCad PCB Editor x64 on x64

Version: 7.0.2, release build

Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.2.2
FreeType 2.12.1
HarfBuzz 6.0.0
FontConfig 2.14.1
libcurl/7.88.1-DEV Schannel zlib/1.2.13

Platform: Windows 11 (build 22000), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW

Build Info:
Date: Apr 15 2023 19:18:27
wxWidgets: 3.2.2 (wchar_t,wx containers)
Boost: 1.81.0
OCC: 7.6.3
Curl: 7.88.1-DEV
ngspice: 40
Compiler: Visual C++ 1934 without C++ ABI

Build settings:
KICAD_SPICE=ON

[retiredfeline]

It was probably a TTF that isn’t enabled for KiCad. Check that you have allowed TTFs. Don’t know how myself. On my Linux system.

fc-list | grep -i laserian

returns nothing on my system so I don’t have it.

[tormyvancool]

Strange because it was working fine and even got the correct font and sent to the plant for the prototypes …
just by reponenig today it returned me this :-/

this TTF isn’t standard for Windows … I downloaded it years ago … it always worked. And also in KiCAD since the introduction of the other fonts (that was great stuff)

[JeffYoung]

Is the font a .ttf file or a .ttc file? (.ttc files can store multiple faces, which didn’t work in 7.0.0 but was fixed in one of the dot releases. But perhaps it got busted in some cases or something?)

[tormyvancool]

I checked it and it’s a TTF

[JeffYoung]

Well, it’s not that then…

[tormyvancool]

After deep investigation, it’s not KiCAD. I got strange data lost on my PC.
Not any virus,
Not any malware,
Not any SSD malfunction,

Still investigating the causes.
I close this topic.

[JeffYoung]

Bummer. Good luck with it…