Re: [Gimp-developer] fonts in gimp

2008-02-08 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 18:56 -0500, Andrei Simion wrote: > This is what we use and it worked fine with Gimp 1.2. version, but I've > been told the font description has changed for 2.x versions. What you used is certainly not the format that GIMP 1.2 expected. The format for GIMP 1.2 was XLFD

Re: [Gimp-developer] fonts in gimp

2008-02-07 Thread Andrei Simion
Kevin Cozens wrote: > Andrei Simion wrote: >> Let's say I want to pass this font 'FrutigerBold bold Italic normal'. >> What is the new format of this font for version 2.2 of Gimp. > > Would you believe that it is simply "FrutigerBold Bold Italic"? Use the name > of the font followed by the style

Re: [Gimp-developer] fonts in gimp

2008-02-07 Thread Kevin Cozens
Andrei Simion wrote: > Let's say I want to pass this font 'FrutigerBold bold Italic normal'. > What is the new format of this font for version 2.2 of Gimp. Would you believe that it is simply "FrutigerBold Bold Italic"? Use the name of the font followed by the style modifiers. BTW, why are you

Re: [Gimp-developer] fonts in gimp

2008-02-07 Thread Andrei Simion
Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 20:26 -0500, Andrei Simion wrote: > >> I have some Perl scripts that connect to a Gimp server and generate >> images. I want to upgrade to the 2.2 version of Gimp and I know that I >> have to change the font names. That's it, I pass a font to

Re: [Gimp-developer] fonts in gimp

2008-02-06 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 20:26 -0500, Andrei Simion wrote: > I have some Perl scripts that connect to a Gimp server and generate > images. I want to upgrade to the 2.2 version of Gimp and I know that I > have to change the font names. That's it, I pass a font to the script in > order to gener

Re: [Gimp-developer] Fonts Dialog

2006-12-30 Thread Chris Mohler
> You don't really need to restart GIMP. > Its enough to rescan and it's done. > Just click on "open font selection dialogue" and you'll find rescan. > > Salvatore Awesome! Now I feel like an ass for requesting a feature that exists... Chris ___ Gimp-d

Re: [Gimp-developer] Fonts Dialog

2006-12-30 Thread iwkse
> Well, if you *do* have thousands of fonts and they're all activated, > the font list is two kilometers long! That's a problem not specific > to the GIMP, but system-wide. I've been using an app (called > fontypython) that creates symlinks in ~/.fonts and then restarting > GIMP (or whatever pro

Re: [Gimp-developer] Fonts Dialog

2006-12-30 Thread Chris Mohler
On 12/30/06, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 15:29 +0100, iwkse wrote: > > > Such feature is useful when the user has a really high number of fonts > > cause loading all them slow down whole gimp at the start. > > Why not just fix the slow startup instead? If

Re: [Gimp-developer] Fonts Dialog

2006-12-30 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 15:29 +0100, iwkse wrote: > Such feature is useful when the user has a really high number of fonts > cause loading all them slow down whole gimp at the start. Why not just fix the slow startup instead? If your copy of fontconfig would work correctly, GIMP would only hav

Re: [Gimp-developer] fonts

2004-09-13 Thread William Skaggs
Sven, Tor, Michael, Nathan, thanks for all the information. I've tried to synthesize it into something both correct and helpful. The result should show up at http://docs.gimp.org/en/ within a couple of days, in section 2.4.11: maybe you can look it over to see if there's anything I've screwed up

Re: [Gimp-developer] fonts

2004-09-12 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Nathan Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The information given above may be appropriate for adding fonts to > > your win32 system but it is irrelevant for GIMP on Win32. Please read > > my other mail in this very thread. > > That's funny. Works for me. I'd call the method I use to in

Re: [Gimp-developer] fonts

2004-09-11 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Sven Neumann writes: > The information given above may be appropriate for adding fonts to > your win32 system but it is irrelevant for GIMP on Win32. On Win32, fontconfig by default uses the Windows fonts directory, i.e. the same fonts that Windows uses itself. --tml _

Re: [Gimp-developer] fonts

2004-09-11 Thread Nathan Summers
On 11 Sep 2004 09:28:54 +0200, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The information given above may be appropriate for adding fonts to > your win32 system but it is irrelevant for GIMP on Win32. Please read > my other mail in this very thread. That's funny. Works for me. I'd call the metho

Re: [Gimp-developer] fonts

2004-09-11 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Nathan Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 3) How do you add fonts in Windows, and what types of fonts can > > GIMP use there? > > The easiest way is to drag the file onto the Fonts directory and let > the shell do its magic. Unless you've done something creative, it's > probably in its

Re: [Gimp-developer] fonts

2004-09-10 Thread Michael Schumacher
Nathan Summers schrieb: On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:47:52 -0700, William Skaggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 3) How do you add fonts in Windows, and what types of fonts can GIMP use there? The easiest way is to drag the file onto the Fonts directory and let the shell do its magic. Unless you've done som

Re: [Gimp-developer] fonts

2004-09-10 Thread Nathan Summers
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:47:52 -0700, William Skaggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 3) How do you add fonts in Windows, and what types of fonts can GIMP use > there? The easiest way is to drag the file onto the Fonts directory and let the shell do its magic. Unless you've done something creative, it'

Re: [Gimp-developer] fonts

2004-09-10 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, "William Skaggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to add some information about fonts to gimp-help-2, You have read http://gimp.org/unix/fonts.html, haven't you? I would also suggest not to duplicate that information in gimp-help-2 but simply to link to this page. If there's inf