Gimp and True Type Fonts

[Chadley Wilson]

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?
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[Mikko Paananen]

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.)

[Nils Philippsen]

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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