# Font issues when creating a new part

**URL:** <https://forum.fritzing.org/t/font-issues-when-creating-a-new-part/25762>\
**Category:** parts help\
**Created:** [November 13, 2024, 4:58am UTC](https://forum.fritzing.org/t/font-issues-when-creating-a-new-part/25762 "2024-11-13T04:58:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![vanepp](https://forum.fritzing.org/user_avatar/forum.fritzing.org/vanepp/32/4426_2.png) [@vanepp](https://forum.fritzing.org/u/vanepp)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.fritzing.org/t/font-issues-when-creating-a-new-part/25762/4 "2024-11-14T16:23:45Z")

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> [@davef\_dci](#):
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> However, I’m still receiving an error message about the wrong font being used. Any advice on resolving this?

Two suggestions there: first the problem is your font definition in the svg is wrong. It needs to be ‘Droid Sans’ rather than font-family: Droid Sans. The lack of quotes likely gives Fritzing Droid as the font family due to the space in the name without the quotes. The second suggestion is (assuming you are using Inkscape!) use Randy’s schematic extension available here:

> [@Fritzing-Schematic an Inkscape extension - released](https://forum.fritzing.org/t/fritzing-schematic-an-inkscape-extension-released/13394):
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> Hi all! I have been working on an extension for Inkscape to create rectangular schematic symbol .svg files for use in Fritzing. I think I created a useful tool to speed up creation of schematic symbols, and now I want to share it with the community. It’s available on github: [https://github.com/revolt-randy/Fritzing-Schematic-an-Inkscape-Extension.](https://github.com/revolt-randy/Fritzing-Schematic-an-Inkscape-Extension.) To install: In Inkscape, the edit menu → user preferences → system will have an option for ‘User extensions’ - allowing you to open the folder to…

although it is apparently currently having problems on Inkscape 1.4 on Linux (works fine on Windows10 for me though!) Randy is working on a fix. As well you have a few problems (that if you only want schematic you may not care about.) Your svg is missing the layerId schematic as a group that contains the entire svg like this

 ![capture1](https://forum.fritzing.org/uploads/default/original/3X/9/8/981d4fac61be4fcd5ea11344f46fd5c6d0b959ee.jpeg)

(circled in green on the left.) Without that your part won’t export as an image. As well you don’t have all pins defined in breadboard and pcb so you get the red rectangles in those views

 ![capture2](https://forum.fritzing.org/uploads/default/original/3X/6/4/643a2b93ffac007746d2319379100b867fca190b.jpeg)

 ![capture3](https://forum.fritzing.org/uploads/default/original/3X/3/e/3eb12d6edeb015e7109d2a7c796b51ea056bce6d.jpeg)

> [@davef\_dci](#):
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> Additionally, when I save a part after editing an existing one, I’m not given an option to choose where to save it, and it doesn’t seem to appear in “My Parts.” Do you know where Fritzing is storing it, or how I can locate it?

Assuming you are using parts editor, when you save a part it should appear in the mine parts bin like this:

empty mine parts bin

 ![capture4](https://forum.fritzing.org/uploads/default/original/3X/1/9/19c523c66f75c0f8ca8ab760103bda02d0f90da7.jpeg)

create and save a part in parts editor

![capture5](https://forum.fritzing.org/uploads/default/original/3X/a/2/a2a0bf5840b58de140ec9f7abf062eda8bb00daa.jpeg)

and it writes the part to the mine parts bin.

 ![capture6](https://forum.fritzing.org/uploads/default/original/3X/1/8/18967fbe866622ceac04fa818ea232add3197988.jpeg)

In practice the files (in repository format not .fzpz format!) are stored in the user directories which vary by operating system in the documents directories

Windows

c:\Users\username\My Documents\Fritzing (where username is your windows id)

Linux

~/Documents/Fritzing/parts

Mac

/Users/username/Documents/Fritzing/parts

the various parts are in subdirectories under these directories. The fzp file is in parts/user and the svg files are in

parts/svg/user/breadboard|icon|schematic|pcb

> [@davef\_dci](#):
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> I’m mainly using Fritzing as a basic schematic capture tool, rather than for board layout. It would be really helpful if I could view the library parts as their schematic symbols rather than as icons.

The only place I know of that being available is in the Inspector window (by part)

 ![capture9](https://forum.fritzing.org/uploads/default/original/3X/7/b/7bac080e28aa773bc8d8bc3e3dcd4534e2dda5dd.jpeg)

Hope this helps.

Peter

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