Font file missing

Technical code : FONT_FILE_MISSING

What it means

One or more of your tables ask for a font this scan could not find.

Why it happens

Some table scripts load a specific .ttf font for the scoreboard or DMD. This check only reads what the script literally names — it never guesses a name — and checks whether a file with that name exists anywhere under this install.

How Pincab Toolbox detects it

The free scanner checks the following:

At least one table's script references a specific .ttf file name, and no file with that name was found under the scanned root.

What to do

A table asks for a font that is not installed on this machine. Depending on the table, scores or text render wrong, or the table crashes while loading.

  1. Note the exact font name given in the Pincab Toolbox scan result.
  2. The font almost always ships WITH the table, in the original archive. Go back to the table download: look for a .ttf or .otf file, or a "fonts" folder.
  3. If you have it: right-click the .ttf, then "Install for all users". That option specifically, not just "Install": otherwise the font is invisible when a table starts from PinUP Popper.
  4. If you do not have it, go back to the table's download page: the author almost always says which font to use and where to get it.
  5. Restart PinUP Popper after installing.
  6. Run a new scan.

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Covered: Visual Pinball X (10.x) and PinUP Popper. Not covered: Future Pinball, Pinball FX, Visual Pinball 9 and the other frontends (PinballX, PinballY).

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