Re: Install freefont and sharefont: How is it done?
>I have not tried the gimp-extra- fonts rpm as I have trouble downloading >it at home and can do so tomorrow when I'm at achool. IIRC that package is just freefonts + sharefont in one file. >Food for thought -- I can live with it like it is but for the future I'd >like to have an rpm to install it. How do I change that one little thing >in the script. of Maybe make rpms for other fonts??? http://www.rpm.org/ for RPM, or /usr/doc/HOWTO for font things. In general, put all new fonts in a dir, run the tools to creat fonts.dir (and the other file I can not remember, I am away from Unix machines now), then change font server or X server config. The important point is to not mix, so package systems never find a dir with data that it did not put there. >Second, I have been doing some reading on RedHat and they no longer use >xset. They use chkfontpath to add true type fonts to the font server xset is a tool to change some X server things. You can use it too, I did. >(it's no longer part of XF86). That seemed to work fine, but freefont and >sharefont are not tt are they These true type fonts are then stored Freefont and sharefont are Type 1, IIRC. >in /usr/share/fonts/truetype and you use ttmkfdir after you've added more >fonts. TT is what MS Windows uses, for example. You can get loads of free TT fonts from the net, and buy some quality CDs. Most of apps come with extra fonts, for example maybe your printer CD includes some fonts, or a program that includes more TT fonts. Type1 are harder to find. GSR
Re: Install freefont and sharefont: How is it done?
Okay... I found two rpms freefont and sharefont. They install to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 directory but the script it funs after install is "type1inst -nogs -quiet". On rh6.x and using the latest type1inst, I had to use "type1inst -nogs -silent" to get it to work. I also had to hand modify /etc/X11/XF86Config, add tha above font path, and xset fp rehash, for it to work. I have not tried the gimp-extra- fonts rpm as I have trouble downloading it at home and can do so tomorrow when I'm at achool. Food for thought -- I can live with it like it is but for the future I'd like to have an rpm to install it. How do I change that one little thing in the script. of Maybe make rpms for other fonts??? Second, I have been doing some reading on RedHat and they no longer use xset. They use chkfontpath to add true type fonts to the font server (it's no longer part of XF86). That seemed to work fine, but freefont and sharefont are not tt are they These true type fonts are then stored in /usr/share/fonts/truetype and you use ttmkfdir after you've added more fonts. http://www.redhat.com/knowledgebase/newfontsystem/solutions.html Thanks for the help, Chuck "Charles R. Tersteeg" wrote: > I've tried to install these without success. I have to reinstall my 75 > dpi just to get my desktop back to normal.. > > What would I have to as I have a rh6.2 system and the font rpms have an > error in the script (which probably do no get them installed). > > Chuck
Re: Install freefont and sharefont: How is it done?
>> > that looks something like :\ (I can't remember what it actually looks >> yes it does look that way and if I remember right it has :\unix ? >yeah, that'd be the line i got rid of. anyone out there know what this >actually does? or how? It is a line that tells your X server to load the font from a X font server in the local machine. RH includes a font server that allows to serve more than one session at the same time (maybe no adventages for single user like you, but I know it can be useful in some cases, multi or single user in a single monitor, and really useful in machines that serve X displays to other stations). IMHO you are doing all the wrong way. If you do not know what a thing does, you should read docs and ask docs first, then change it (at your own risk, if you break it, you pay the new one and keep the pieces). What you have to change for new fonts are the X font server config files. I can not remember the name now, look under /etc/X11 (sorry, away from Linux machines). BTW, I have read something about RH 6.2. IIRC that version is beta, not final, so it can fail (and will, for sure). Now I understand why RH does not announce the beta testing program any more, users want to test things even if they can not handle basic problems. Do a favour to yourself (who ever is using 6.2) and use final versions, not betas. It is just my imagination, or nobody reads the HOWTOs, FAQs and other docs? Well, at least, Linux (and other Unix) allow the typical solution in these cases, reinstall. Also, reboot a pair of times every time you change a setting. Maybe that way it will work as you expected, instead as you read in the docs. Leave the damn line as it was and change the RH font server config (that, btw, allows True Type fonts). Then restart the font server. Maybe even give a command to X server to rescan fonts (away from machine, can not test this, but is a option, a must if you are using font dirs instead of server). GSR
Re: Install freefont and sharefont: How is it done?
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, happygirl wrote: > On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Erunantion wrote: > > > On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Charles R. Tersteeg wrote: > > > > > I've tried to install these without success. I have to reinstall my 75 > > > dpi just to get my desktop back to normal.. > > > > > > What would I have to as I have a rh6.2 system and the font rpms have an > > > error in the script (which probably do no get them installed). > > > > > > Chuck > > > > Well, I would suggest messing around with XF86Setup of XF86Config. I know, > > after RH6.1 the fonts directories are screwed up somehow, and I always > > wanted the extra fonts (dragonwick especially). So here's what I did: > > > > Hand-edit XF86Config & get rid of the line that has that wierd line in it > > that looks something like :\ (I can't remember what it actually looks > > yes it does look that way and if I remember right it has :\unix ? yeah, that'd be the line i got rid of. anyone out there know what this actually does? or how? > Scarlett > > Jonathan Erbe aka Erunantion == Jonathan Erbe aka Erunantion The Annals of Middle-earth <"http://rush.baked.net/~jerbel/"> E-mail me at <"mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> ==
Re: Install freefont and sharefont: How is it done?
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Erunantion wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Charles R. Tersteeg wrote:
>
> > I've tried to install these without success. I have to reinstall my 75
> > dpi just to get my desktop back to normal..
> >
> > What would I have to as I have a rh6.2 system and the font rpms have an
> > error in the script (which probably do no get them installed).
> >
> > Chuck
>
> Well, I would suggest messing around with XF86Setup of XF86Config. I know,
> after RH6.1 the fonts directories are screwed up somehow, and I always
> wanted the extra fonts (dragonwick especially). So here's what I did:
>
> Hand-edit XF86Config & get rid of the line that has that wierd line in it
> that looks something like :\ (I can't remember what it actually looks
yes it does look that way and if I remember right it has :\unix ?
> like, but it's the odd line under FontPath that RH now uses to find
> fonts).
>
> Again Hand-edit XF86Config & put in new FontPath lines for each directory
> where fonts you want to include hide.
> (e.g. FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/sharefont/")
>
> If you can't get the new fonts to show up in gimp, try running XF86Setup
> to try to get it to create a new XF86Config file. After it does that,
> check the FontPath lines again, redoing the part above if necessary.
>
> I know, this is a hard and round-about way of doing this. I had to do this
> a few times before it worked out. (And now I've lost a few fonts, namely
> zapf chancery, which I used for my webpage images.)
>
I have lost quite a few myself mainly new century schoolbook which does
work but it's not what came with rh6.1
> If anyone out there knows a better way of doing this, please inform me of
> it. I'd love to get all my fonts back, as I need to add more images to my
> webpage, but I don't want to have to use another font.
>
Scarlett
> ==
> Jonathan Erbe aka Erunantion
> The Annals of Middle-earth
> <"http://rush.baked.net/~jerbel/">
>E-mail me at <"mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">
> ==
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Re: Install freefont and sharefont: How is it done?
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Charles R. Tersteeg wrote: > I've tried to install these without success. I have to reinstall my 75 > dpi just to get my desktop back to normal.. > > What would I have to as I have a rh6.2 system and the font rpms have an > error in the script (which probably do no get them installed). > > Chuck Well, I would suggest messing around with XF86Setup of XF86Config. I know, after RH6.1 the fonts directories are screwed up somehow, and I always wanted the extra fonts (dragonwick especially). So here's what I did: Hand-edit XF86Config & get rid of the line that has that wierd line in it that looks something like :\ (I can't remember what it actually looks like, but it's the odd line under FontPath that RH now uses to find fonts). Again Hand-edit XF86Config & put in new FontPath lines for each directory where fonts you want to include hide. (e.g. FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/sharefont/") If you can't get the new fonts to show up in gimp, try running XF86Setup to try to get it to create a new XF86Config file. After it does that, check the FontPath lines again, redoing the part above if necessary. I know, this is a hard and round-about way of doing this. I had to do this a few times before it worked out. (And now I've lost a few fonts, namely zapf chancery, which I used for my webpage images.) If anyone out there knows a better way of doing this, please inform me of it. I'd love to get all my fonts back, as I need to add more images to my webpage, but I don't want to have to use another font. == Jonathan Erbe aka Erunantion The Annals of Middle-earth <"http://rush.baked.net/~jerbel/"> E-mail me at <"mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> ==
Re: Install freefont and sharefont: How is it done?
Jon Winters wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Wandered Inn wrote: > > > Jon Winters wrote: > > > > > I don't think there are any RPMs to install Xfstt but there are easy > > > instructions to help you compile it: > > > > Actually there are, I got xfstt off of http://www.rpmfind.net/ > > How are those workin' for you? I seem to remember I couldn't get them to > work or something. If they do indeed work then that is the way to go for > a system that uses rpms. They are working just fine. FYI: RH 5.2, substantially upgraded, running 2.2.14 kernel, GIMP 1.0.4. GIMP was installed via rpm as well. > > -- > Jon Winters http://www.obscurasite.com/ > OpenVerse http://www.openverse.org/ -- Until later: Geoffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm afraid there will be more problems with W2K than there were with Y2K...
Re: Install freefont and sharefont: How is it done?
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Wandered Inn wrote: > Jon Winters wrote: > > > I don't think there are any RPMs to install Xfstt but there are easy > > instructions to help you compile it: > > Actually there are, I got xfstt off of http://www.rpmfind.net/ How are those workin' for you? I seem to remember I couldn't get them to work or something. If they do indeed work then that is the way to go for a system that uses rpms. -- Jon Winters http://www.obscurasite.com/ OpenVerse http://www.openverse.org/
error in guash on Gimp 1.1.14
i've just installed the latest level og the guash plug-in on GIMP 1.1.14. when i try to start up the plug-in i get the following message: GLib-CRITICAL **: file ghash.c: line 99: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed. has anybody seen this before? or can anybody tell me what to do to fix this? the install ran without any apparent problems. Jim Lane Toronto Hydro
Re: GIF license policy
Kelly Lynn Martin wrote: > On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 09:12:07 +0100, Hubert Froehlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >We want to use gimp to transform cartographic vector data into GIF > >images for use in the internet. However, the rights on the GIF > >format are owned by Compuserve. > > >AFAIK, any software *producing* GIF images (such as Photoshop and all > >that stuff) has to pay license fees to Compuserve. The software user, > >then , has got the right to produce ANY amount of images. > > I would strongly urge you to use some other format if you're concerned > about the legal BS that surrounds the LZW patent. PNG should will work > nicely for your purposes. > > Kelly We jhave already considered about PNG, but: We want to use Java Applets (Java 1.1.X, for use in standard browsers, no Java 2) accessing GIF images and displaying them in a canvas - which is a standard Java 1.1 functionality. Unfortunately, we have not managed so far to do the same for PNG. Our Java knowledge is not so deep, but there seems to be no *simple* way in standard Java 1.1. Developing tools and classes will exceed our abilites. Or does anybody know about Java classes helping us with this problem? (if possible, not too complicated as our Java knowledge is not too deep...) Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks Hubert -- --- Dr.-Ing. Hubert Fröhlich Tel. :+49 (0)89 / 2190 - 2580 Bezirksfinanzdirektion MünchenFax :+49 (0)89 / 2190 - 2459 Alexandrastr. 3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] D-80538 München GERMANY -- --- Dr.-Ing. Hubert Fröhlich Tel. :+49 (0)89 / 2190 - 2580 Bezirksfinanzdirektion MünchenFax :+49 (0)89 / 2190 - 2459 Alexandrastr. 3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] D-80538 München GERMANY
Re: Install freefont and sharefont: How is it done?
Jon Winters wrote: > I don't think there are any RPMs to install Xfstt but there are easy > instructions to help you compile it: Actually there are, I got xfstt off of http://www.rpmfind.net/ -- Until later: Geoffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm afraid there will be more problems with W2K than there were with Y2K...
Re: Install freefont and sharefont: How is it done?
Hello, Everything you ever wanted to know about adding fonts to a redhat system can be found at the type euphoria site: http://fonts.linuxpower.org/ They also have more than 1300 free fonts for you to download and install. I don't think there are any RPMs to install Xfstt but there are easy instructions to help you compile it: http://fonts.linuxpower.org/help.php3?title=Help Another alternative would be to switch to Corel LInux. It comes with 250 fonts pre-installed. -- Jon Winters http://www.obscurasite.com/ OpenVerse http://www.openverse.org/
gDynText problem
I am experiencing strange behaviour of the gDyntext plugin in the latest CVS version of GIMP. It renders an empty layer, very small, but enlarges on the amount of text. What made me not to report it a bug is that it works well on my other system which has rather same setup. Has anyone experienced this behaviour and knows where the problem is? I can't live without gDyntext one more day =) I used version 1.4.3 that ships with GIMP CVS and 1.4.4 from author's site. I have a linux 2.2.12 kernel, xfree 3.3.5 running on an i686. Jakub Steiner -- -[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-[ http://hideout.musichall.cz ]- " .. if Windows is the answer it must have been a stupid question .. "
Install freefont and sharefont: How is it done?
I've tried to install these without success. I have to reinstall my 75 dpi just to get my desktop back to normal.. What would I have to as I have a rh6.2 system and the font rpms have an error in the script (which probably do no get them installed). Chuck
Re: GIF license policy
Am Thu, 2 Mar 2000 schrieb Hubert Froehlich: > AFAIK, any software *producing* GIF images (such as Photoshop and all > that stuff) has to pay license fees to Compuserve. The software user, > then , has got the right to produce ANY amount of images. > > My question now: > > a) Is this information correct? > > b) what about GIMP? How is the license policy concerning GIMP? To be > concrete: We want to produce really HUGE AMOUNTS of GIF ( GIF 89a , to > be precise, NOT the OLD GIF87a ) pictures NOT AT ALL FOR PRIVATE USE and > don't want ot get any license trouble ... > > c) If we need any extra license: where to get it and what does it cost? a) and c) : Take a look at http://burnallgifs.org/ b) You can't use gimp to produce gifs if you don't live in a country where the LZW patent doesn't matter. Michael
Re: GIF license policy
On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 09:12:07 +0100, Hubert Froehlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >We want to use gimp to transform cartographic vector data into GIF >images for use in the internet. However, the rights on the GIF >format are owned by Compuserve. >AFAIK, any software *producing* GIF images (such as Photoshop and all >that stuff) has to pay license fees to Compuserve. The software user, >then , has got the right to produce ANY amount of images. I would strongly urge you to use some other format if you're concerned about the legal BS that surrounds the LZW patent. PNG should will work nicely for your purposes. Kelly
GIF license policy
We want to use gimp to transform cartographic vector data into GIF images for use in the internet. However, the rights on the GIF format are owned by Compuserve. AFAIK, any software *producing* GIF images (such as Photoshop and all that stuff) has to pay license fees to Compuserve. The software user, then , has got the right to produce ANY amount of images. My question now: a) Is this information correct? b) what about GIMP? How is the license policy concerning GIMP? To be concrete: We want to produce really HUGE AMOUNTS of GIF ( GIF 89a , to be precise, NOT the OLD GIF87a ) pictures NOT AT ALL FOR PRIVATE USE and don't want ot get any license trouble ... c) If we need any extra license: where to get it and what does it cost? Thanks. Hubert Fröhlich -- --- Dr.-Ing. Hubert Fröhlich Tel. :+49 (0)89 / 2190 - 2580 Bezirksfinanzdirektion MünchenFax :+49 (0)89 / 2190 - 2459 Alexandrastr. 3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] D-80538 München GERMANY
