After some more investigation it seems to me the problem with loading fonts is actually the font name in the metadata file generated by photoshop, actually the name that appears in photoshop is consistent with Qt's naming of the font, and the issue comes from the incorrect name given in the metadata, which is imported exactly as it appears here and therefore doesn't work. I.E, the font file name and not the font's id name. Is there any way at all of converting these at the import step without knowing what the font name actually is in advance?? i.e having Qt scan the whole user font directory and knowing the mapping between font file name and name id?