Re: [Gimp-user] Font Plugin?
Hi, On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 04:28, Carol Spears wrote: http://mail.fontconfig.org/pipermail/fontconfig/2003-August/000597.html I think this mail says that fontconfig probably won't be doing catagorizing fonts anytime soon. I was talking with someone familiar with gimp core stuff, apparently all of what is needed is there. Unfortunately, fonts catagorizing with its core means it would probably not be able to share such functionality with other apps, as the fontconfig people are suggesting. If we ever get around to implement categories for GimpData objects (brushes, patterns, gradients and the like) we should consider to also derive GimpFont from GimpData. That way we'd get font categories for free. There's a good chance that this will make it into GIMP-2.2. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Font Plugin?
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 21:44, Carol Spears wrote: GIMP-1.3 uses fontconfig (http://fontconfig.org/) for font configuration. All you need to do is to add the directories with fonts to /etc/fonts/fonts.conf or ~/.fonts.conf. This is bad news if you are like me and have way too many fonts. I don't see what's bad about this. GIMP shouldn't have it's own way of configuring fonts. By using fontconfig we make sure that users have to configure fonts only once and that they can make use of existing (fontilus) or yet-to-be-written font management tools. I admit that there are ways that font management could be improved, for example by introducing font categories. Such improvements should however be addressed at the fontconfig level so that other apps can benefit from it as well. http://mail.fontconfig.org/pipermail/fontconfig/2003-August/000597.html I think this mail says that fontconfig probably won't be doing catagorizing fonts anytime soon. I was talking with someone familiar with gimp core stuff, apparently all of what is needed is there. Unfortunately, fonts catagorizing with its core means it would probably not be able to share such functionality with other apps, as the fontconfig people are suggesting. All fonts are not equal, even if this is how they are presented lately. carol ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Font Plugin?
Nick Wilson wrote: Hi all, I've been trying to get freefont and sharefont to show up in gimp 1.3.17 and try as I might, I have to conceed defeat. Is there a plugin or some other way to get extra fonts into gimp? many thanks... I was trying to talk someone into grabbing some of the good old font software from gimps past. This ircer was interested in a treeview listing of available fonts. I suggested using the way that the original texttool (gimp-1.0)got the font information and the configuration button from the gimp-freetype plugin (gimp-1.2, gimp-freetype-0.2) and anything else that used to work like the line breaks in dynamic type and hook it all up to gimp-1.3 with treeview. I don't know how far I got with this request, however. In the meantime, hopefully fontconfig will work one day. or whatever font thing we are using now. carol ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Font Plugin?
Sven Neumann wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 15:57, Nick Wilson wrote I've been trying to get freefont and sharefont to show up in gimp 1.3.17 and try as I might, I have to conceed defeat. GIMP-1.3 uses fontconfig (http://fontconfig.org/) for font configuration. All you need to do is to add the directories with fonts to /etc/fonts/fonts.conf or ~/.fonts.conf. This is bad news if you are like me and have way too many fonts. carol ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
