Re: Gimp and True Type Fonts

From: Nils Philippsen (nphilipp_at_redhat.com)
Date: 03/30/04

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    On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 13:22, Mikko Paananen wrote:
    > su, 2004-03-28 kello 06:29, Chadley Wilson kirjoitti:
    > > Guys how do you use a font that you downloaded in gimp.
    > > I have installed it in FC1 and it is available in all my other apps like
    > > OO, except for gimp. Is there another way?
    >
    > Gimp 1.x uses different font system than newer gtk2 programs and doesn't
    > see same fonts other Gnome/KDE programs do.
    >
    > If you installed your fonts to ~/.fonts, open terminal and try this:
    > cd .fonts
    > mkfontscale
    > mkfontdir
    > xset +fp /home/your_account/.fonts
    >
    > You have do xset-command every time you log in and mkfontstuff if you
    > install new fonts.
    >
    > But really, consider installing new Gimp 2.0.0 from gimp.org (You'll
    > need some additional libraries from freshrpms with their .rpm.)

    Or rebuild the gimp-2.0.0 SRPMS from FC2test (pre currently in, final
    shortly in Rawhide/"development"). You'd need to rebuild gimp,
    gimp-print, xsane, gtkam (install gimp, gimp-devel after rebuilding for
    the others to pick up the right libs).

    Nils

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