Hi. Thank you very much for the Gimp; it's powerful, and a pleasure to use.
I'm having some trouble with TrueType fonts. Most work very well, but the OpenOffice truetype fonts seem to be getting replaced by default character cell fonts. Is there any way I can make these fonts work? The Problem ----------- To reproduce: The OpenOffice GPL'd fonts are available here: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/ttf-openoffice/ttf-openoffice_1.0.orig.tar.gz Install them in the usual way. Try to use them on an image (dynamic text or Text Tool, it doesn't matter). Note that they don't work. On my system, they are replaced by: -Misc-Fixed-Bold-R-Normal--13-120-75-75-C-70-ISO8859-1 Which is very small, very character-celly, and very useless to me. libfreetype6 (aka Freetype2) renders these fonts correctly - I've checked using SDL, which uses freetype2 as its backend - the fonts render nicely at various sizes. Here's a screenshot of me trying to get it working - note that the font has simply been replaced. I'm not sure why the Gimp is choking on this font - other Truetype fonts from a variety of sources work fine. http://www3.telus.net/futility/screenshot.png Why It Matters -------------- These are the only TrueType fonts I've found (in more than two weeks of searching), that are genuinely redistributable. The net is filled with so-called 'freeware' ttf files; the vast majority of these are actually stolen proprietary fonts. Run 'strings' on any of the fonts available from places like Type Euphoria - it's an education. It would be awfully nice if we could get these Actually Free fonts working. Thanks for your time. -- David Clark - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Write cross-platform games in a half-decent language - http://www.pygame.org Don't reinvent the wheel while you're at it - http://www.pygame.org/pcr/ _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
