Having difficulty adding additional fonts to The Gimp. Although I'm almost at the point of ditching Win2k for good, graphics is the one thing holding me back. Does anyone have any experience they would like to impart on this subject?
Cheers, Nick
On 2003-10-16 11:10:39 +0100 Nick Heppleston nickheppleston@gmx.co.uk wrote:
Does anyone have any experience they would like to impart on this subject?
There's a page at http://www.gimp.org/fonts.html which also has the URW free fonts. I didn't find GIMP difficult to add fonts to, once you realise that "xset fp rehash" is needed to find fonts installed since last X restart. GNUstep is a bit trickier. Ghostscript, CUPS and Sketch are lots more difficult.
If you say what sort of fonts you're trying to install (Type1? TrueType?) and what system (Debian has defoma, which I think changes things), then maybe someone can give better advice.
Maybe see you this evening, Nick.
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:49:19 +0100 MJ Ray mjr@dsl.pipex.com wrote:
On 2003-10-16 11:10:39 +0100 Nick Heppleston nickheppleston@gmx.co.uk wrote:
Does anyone have any experience they would like to impart on this subject?
There's a page at http://www.gimp.org/fonts.html which also has the URW free fonts. I didn't find GIMP difficult to add fonts to, once you realise that "xset fp rehash" is needed to find fonts installed since last X restart. GNUstep is a bit trickier. Ghostscript, CUPS and Sketch are lots more difficult.
Just a quick thanks for the link Mark, in the process of following the advice given I spotted a missing semi-colon in one of the font info files in the truetype directory. Fixed it and it all suddenly fell into place. Got all the fonts I want in The Gimp, Openoffice, etc, etc
Keith
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