Fonts missing in X11

I have been using X11 for some time now, mostly for GIMP. I have noticed before that not all my fonts were available in X11/GIMP, but didn't really care. I tought it had to do something with GIMP. Today I installed another X11 application (Inkscape) and I noticed the same lack of fonts.
I don't know much about X11 and I thought TrueType fonts were not compatible, but I checked some of the available fonts, and among them there are also TTF's.
Now I guess that only fonts I installed recently are missing.
To make a long story short, I don't get it. Has anyone encountered this problem and - better - has a solution? (Maybe copying fonts to another directory?)
Thanks in advance.

In MacOS X, fonts can be found in three different places: /System/Library/Fonts (default system fonts, best left unmolested to avoid system instability), /Library/Fonts (general purpose fonts available to all) and /Users/<user>/Library/Fonts (personal fonts only available to that particular user). Issues can arise like for example installing fonts with one account and having them be placed in that account's Fonts folder, then not finding them when using another account. Or having fonts with the same name (maybe different versions) duplicated in the previously mentioned directories.
First step would be to run Font Book, located in Applications, and do a Resolve Duplicates on its Edit menu. Then click on All Fonts in the Collection column, click on any font in the Font column, do a Select All from the Edit menu so all fonts are highlighted, then do a Validate Fonts from the File menu. Review any serious problem, if found, disabling or removing the appropiate font file. Like I mentioned before, font files found inside /System/Library/Fonts should best be left alone, disable or delete fonts from the other directories; these fonts were placed by Apple in the base O.S. installation and are generally trouble-free.

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