Hi Carol, I tried using DynamicText but without any success. Freetype works great, thanks.
Best regards, Neophytos Carol Spears wrote: >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 > > _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
