Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 20:26 -0500, Andrei Simion wrote: > >> I have some Perl scripts that connect to a Gimp server and generate >> images. I want to upgrade to the 2.2 version of Gimp and I know that I >> have to change the font names. That's it, I pass a font to the script in >> order to generate an image having a text on it. The question is if it is >> a correspondence between the old font names (ver 1.2) and the one for >> version 2.2. > > GIMP 2.x has some code that tries to come up with a good guess in case > you are using the old font descriptions. This is used to interpret the > parasites written by the old GIMP Dynamic Text plug-in. You could have > look at that code (app/text/gimptext-xlfd.c). > > But I would suggest you just make yourself familiar with the X Logical > Font Description (that is the old style) and the way that Pango font > descriptions work. The string represensation used for fonts in Pango is > explained at > http://library.gnome.org/devel/pango/unstable/pango-Fonts.html#pango-font-description-from-string Thanks, but I cannot find what I am looking for. I need to get the list of font names that can be passed to the Gimp server, 2.2 version. Let's say I want to pass this font 'FrutigerBold bold Italic normal'. What is the new format of this font for version 2.2 of Gimp. Thanks, Andrei > > > Sven > _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
