i am only able to access my fonts (via gimp-1.2) using the gimp freetype plug-in. the configure button seems to skip a lot of x confusion.
http://freetype.gimp.org version 0.2 carol On 2003-05-12 at 2358.51 -0400, Matt Narramore typed this: > I have spent hours upon hours trying to figure out how to install some new > fonts for use with GIMP. Open Office Writer now recognizes them but not > GIMP. > > I am running GIMP 1.2.3 under Red Hat Linux 8 and the Gnome desktop. The > fonts are on a CD from the FontSite and are available as both Type 1 and > True Type. > > The font CD was intended for Mac or Windows so there were no fonts.dir > files with them. Since the Type 1 fonts were in 157 separate folders which > I didn't want to add individually to the X Font Server path and create > individual fonts.dir files for each one I instead created a folder in > /usr/share/fonts for the True Type fonts which were all in one folder on > the CD. After all the instructions didn't work I just tried something else > and they do show up in Open Office Writer (on screen at least, I didn't > think about trying to print anything). > > Does anyone have any ideas on getting GIMP to find them? > > Thanks, > > Matt > > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
