Christopher Hicks wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Tom Williams wrote: > > Christopher Hicks wrote: > > > 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 have NOT found a workaround for this particular problem, but I have > > found another way around it: don't use 2-byte TTFs! :) > > But how can you tell what's going to be a 2-byte TTF and what's not?
I don't know how to tell if any given TTF is a 2-byte TTF from a techincal perspective. From a practical perspective, I've found the more "fancy" or "artistic" TTFs tend to NOT be 2-byte fonts and I haven't run into any problems with using them. So, I guess the 2-byte problem (until GIMP is "fixed" or changed) really depends on which TTFs you need to use. Peace..... Tom _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
