Gimp and True Type Fonts

[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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