>> There seem to be a couple of problems. >> When the $text contains anything other than [a-z], [A-Z], [0-9], >> gimp_text_get_extents fails, saying it was called with an invalid argument. > >You need to make sure that your text is in UTF-8 encoding. > Thanks. That fixed it. >> Also, when the code does create an image with text, I'm not convinced gimp is >> using the font I'm requesting. > >Font selection changed completely with GIMP 2.0. There's some >compatibility code that tries to map the X Logical Font Description font >names from the old days to a font-config font description, but this code >is probably not perfect. > Could you give me some more detail on this? How does the mapping work? I am having a problem in particular with Avantgarde from foundry urw. It seems to be reverting to a more Helvetica-like font. Thanks Luke -- Luke R. (via www.gimpusers.com) _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
