-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Guy Van Sanden wrote: > I'm having trouble using most truetype fonts with the gimp > (gimp-1.2.3-20mdk). ...
> But many of them (about 70%) are not handled correctly or at all by the > Gimp, they are shown in the list, but fail when selected. > I fought with this for a while before I finally got it. Hopefully what I did will work for you. (I fixed three 9.1 boxes here that had this problem.) I originally posted this here in : July 7, 2003 I finally got the font (flubber) to work. It is a hack, and I still don't understand why some of the fonts won't work the way Mandrake installs them, but I don't have the time nor the patience to make a major study of this. I expect this to work with many of the other 'broken fonts' that are found in /usr/share/fonts/ . Here is how I made the font work. (I basically just installed it into a 'more standard ?' location) 1) Copy the font into a new location: # cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF # cp /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives/flubber.ttf . 2) Create a line in fonts.scale for the font, using an editor. # vi fonts.scale My line looks like this (not totally correct but close enough): flubber.ttf -b&h-Flubber-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 The fonts.scale file is set read-only so you will have to chmod the file or override the status (ie: w! in vi) 3) Issued the following commands to update and restart the font server. # mkfontdir # xset fp rehash # service xfs restart This has worked on both of the boxes I have tried this on. (Both Mdk 9.1) I should probably remove the old entry/location but at least this is workable. I stumbled upon this while I was installing a new font. Like I said, it is a hack but it works for me and I hope this will help someone else to live with the problem or perhaps find a better solution. I am not going to install/upgrade all of the necessary pieces to build the latest version of Gimp, just to fix a 'broken font' problem, but I do appreciate that advice also. I don't understand why we have fonts in two different places in the filesystem(s)... YMMV, - -- KevinO If Microsoft built cars, If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/i6u0WOfRC7Rnmv8RAiYZAJ9C5C7Ok2fsD0ojboT9HSykqHDfjgCdGuJt 0ivPySTJM+zrhcR0SSiz9rg= =wRti -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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