Christopher Hicks wrote: > [ I sent out a similar message before Christmas, but I'm hoping that > sending this out again now that everybody's recovered might have a better > chance of evoking a response. For those seeing this twice, sorry. ] > > I'm trying to get ttf fonts to work with gimp, but it seems like most of > the fonts that my users want to use are causing the "This is a 2-byte font > and may not display correctly." message to appear. The "may not display" > in the message seems to consistantly translate into "renders in image as a > tiny ugly font like the Windows System font". Is there any workaround for > this? We're using gimp 1.2.3 on RedHat 8.0. > > I've searched the web for hours and submitted a bug to Red Hat ( > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80024 which includes > a detailed way to reproduce the problem) all without coming up with > anything. I'm not afraid of cvs, compiling, patching, converting the > fonts somehow, or whatever, but I have no idea why it's happening or where > to begin. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
I have NOT found a workaround for this particular problem, but I have found another way around it: don't use 2-byte TTFs! :) I know that is obvious and what I did was start installing various Windows TTFs so my font selection is now MUCH RICHER and I have no _need_ for the 2-byte TTFs that I wanted to use before because I had only a handful of TTFs to choose from. I've been going to several sites that offer FREE Windows TTFs for download and then installing them in my X font set (using ttmkfontdir I believe is the utility) and now I've got a rich set of great Windows fonts and I don't even both with the 2-byte TTFs anymore. At least, it's worth investigating... :) Peace... Tom _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
