Hi back, On 2002-12-13 at 1741.32 +0100, Sven Neumann typed this: > Hi, > > "Matthew Lewis" <whammy@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > After some research, I've discovered some things about fonts, gimp, > > and linux. (Some of this may be old news to many of you, but it was > > new to me because I'm not a font expert.) On RH8.0 (and probably > > other dist's as well) there are 3 font handlers. The first is the > > traditional X font server "xfs" or "xfstt" on some systems. The > > other two font handlers are Xft and the new Xft2. Xfs gets it's > > configuration from the familiar /etc/X11/XF86Config file and from > > /etc/X11/fs/config. Nothing new here. The Xft font handler uses > > /etc/X11/XftConfig for it's config (it may also be in > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 as well). But the newest version of Xft called > > Xft2 uses a pair of new config files which live in /etc/fonts called > > "fonts.conf" and "fonts.dtd". > > RedHat ships with development versions of Pango so this is a > RedHat-only situation. They may have had good reasons to do > this. However this is totally unrelated to fonts in the GIMP text > tool since the GIMP text tool doesn't use X11 to render fonts. It > uses PangoFT2 which only happens to share a configuration file with > PangoXft. > > > This situtation kinda sucks because I have a lot of nice looking > > fonts which are useless under 1.3.10, but work perfectly under > > 1.2.3. I'm not sure why the font hadlers have become so fragmented > > under X/Gnome/Gimp, but it would be nice if there was some way to > > regain the use of the font libraries which worked under earlier > > versions of Gimp. > > I wouldn't say that the fonts worked perfectly under GIMP-1.2.3 since > if anything sucks than it's the text tool in GIMP-1.2. The new tool > however is under development and subject to changes. You better stop > complaining. Then you should decide if you want to help with that > development. Any help is appreciated. If all you want to do is to use > The GIMP, you better delete GIMP-1.3.10 today and wait till we call it > a stable version. > my gimp-1.2 gets ttf fonts via the development plug-in gimp-freetype. the default text tool and the stable dynamic text plug-in are not able to see the ttf fonts. my gimp-1.3 text tool cannot find the ttf fonts. i was sort of waiting for a "Configure" button to pop up on one of my builds. i was sort of excited about the original mail in this thread, as it was the first thing i read that seemed to start to make sense of my font problems. i am running mostly debian testing, but i was willing (and would be willing again) to run a broken half sid machine to get ttf to my stable gimp. if you are curious about what i have done to fix my font problem, i could dig up about 10 different how-tos. from apt-get, from xfce, from nice swedes trying to help .... this is the first one that didn't work for me: http://carol.gimp.org/pdbv/package/anti-aliasing-howto_4%3A2.2.25.html what are the chances that a [Configure] will appear on the text tool dialog in the near future? carol
