Hey, what's this? I'm sorry, but I was just surprised, seem I've missed the precense of a freetype plugin. How (well) does this work?
I only know that I too have been through the Redhat 8.0 confusion with running xfs in parallell with fontconfig, so now many of my fonts, but not all, can access my 500+ fonts. Most frustrating right now is that gimp claim some of them are...broken 2-byte fonts or something. I've understood that gimp-1.2 interact with xfs, while 1.3 have switched to Gtk2/fontconfig-dependence, right? Installing the freetype plugin would mean yet another path from my fonts file to screen rendering of the same? :-) But perhaps freetype actually does a good job in the rendering, I shall certainly have a look at it, thanks for mentioning it! Best regards Carl-Johan Sveningsson On Tue, 13 May 2003, Carol Spears wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user