hi, there are two solutions that i know of. 1) double click on the tool text button [T] and select "Use DynamicText" (or something like that)
2) use gimp-freetype. usually the tarball is available from http://freetype.gimp.org but that site is temporarily offline, so feel free to get it from here http://carol.gimp.org/files/gimp-freetype-0.2.tar.gz the gimp default text tool somewhat sucks. i go back and forth between the two text plug-ins depending on my needs. i understand that the 1.4 text tool should have the best of both worlds. actually, i have used the default gimp text tool on purpose recently. i used it to get the "real name" of the font. text tool told me the name that mozilla recognized. that was handy. carol On 2002-05-22 at 2134.35 +0300, Neophytos Demetriou typed this mail: > I have recently installed a new truetype font on my system (Redhat-7.3, > Gimp 1.2, default configuration). The preview widget displays the text > correctly, however, some pixels are cut from the bottom of the text > after I apply it (esp. the letter "g"). > > Here's how I installed the new truetype font: > > cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ > mkdir myfont > cd myfont > unzip /home/nkd/my/power-tools-cd/myfont.zip > ttmkfdir -o fonts.dir > chkfontpath --add /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/myfont > > Font information: > (...) medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-p-61-ascii-0 > > Any help is greatly appreciated. TIA. > > Best regards, > Neophytos > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
