Hans Breuer writes: > - having the *exactly* same results with fonts on different > platforms would require to use the same font file And even with identical font files, the results might be different because some platforms will have the TrueType bytecode interpreter disabled in Freetype (as it is by default in the sources, AFAIK) because of the patent issues. Possibly this doesn't matter for text sizes one would typically use a GIMP text tool for, though. --tml