Re: [Gimp-user] Fonts

2009-12-13 Thread Ken Warner
I took out all font folders using the preferences dialog and sometimes GIMP will hang for a long time looking for fonts. Weird! Charlie wrote: > I'm a new user to GIMP. I have been thru Akkana Peck's book. > > I have used preferences to remove the reference to the Windows Font Folder > and inser

Re: [Gimp-user] Fonts

2009-01-05 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Monday 05 January 2009, Tagg wrote: > How can I add more fonts to gimp? Simply put them into one of the font folders shown in GIMP's preferences or add folders there if there are fonts in a different place already. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. _

Re: [Gimp-user] Fonts

2009-01-05 Thread Bob Meetin
Tagg wrote: How can I add more fonts to gimp? It will depend on your OS, Linux, MAC, Win, etc but if you follow the standard method of installing fonts for your computer, GIMP should recognize them. Might have to reboot, not sure. ___ Gimp-user m

Re: [Gimp-user] Fonts and The Gimp

2004-08-29 Thread Peter L. Berghold
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 04:40, Sven Neumann wrote: > http://gimp.org/unix/fonts.html Thank-you kindly I guess I'd better go through the pain of upgrading my IBM issued laptop so I can run gimp-2.x. -- Peter L. Berghold

Re: [Gimp-user] Fonts and The Gimp

2004-08-29 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, "Peter L. Berghold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I hope I'm not asking a FAQ here... > > I loaded some True Type fonts on my (linux) machine and I can get > X11 to see them, but when I try and select them from the font dialog > in Gimp I see the message "Font Not Available" > > What am I mi

Re: [Gimp-user] Fonts again.....

2003-09-08 Thread Nat
Jim Clark - Friday 05 September 2003 23:14 - about [Gimp-user] Fonts again.: > I have just moved to a new RH 9 (a customized by my company > distribution) box, with a newly compiled GIMP 1.2.5. I haven't played > with it much, but I would very much like to remove about 100 of the > fonts in my

Re: [Gimp-user] Fonts #2

2003-09-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Jim Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In addition, I have many fonts that display in my selector that when I > click on them say The Selected font is not available. Then why are they > listed there? How do I get rid of them...and I have done an xset fp rehash. Sounds like the problem deale

Re: [Gimp-user] Fonts in 1.3.15

2003-07-02 Thread Nick Wilson
* and then Sven Neumann declared > Yes, with 1.3 you need the tool options even more than you did with > 1.2. That's why the new default session setup has the tool-options > docked below the toolbox. Hi all, I'm having trouble working out where the color change is located on 1.2 can somone p

Re: [Gimp-user] Fonts and GIMP

2003-07-02 Thread Carol Spears
Nick Wilson wrote: Hi all, I managed to install the sharfonts and freefonts on my RH machine and they show in the font servers list of fonts but do NOT show in Gimp. Can anyone point me in the right direction please? I run GIMP under KDE if that makes any difference... Many thanks... if you

Re: [Gimp-user] Fonts in 1.3.x

2003-07-01 Thread Jeff Trefftzs
Hi Sven, Thanks for the illuminating explanation of the font situation. I will start researching font contents & formats. Regards, -- --Jeff Jeff Trefftzs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.tcsn.net/trefftzsHome Page http://gug.sunsite.dk/gallery.php?artist=68 Gimp Gallery

Re: [Gimp-user] Fonts in 1.3.x

2003-07-01 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Jeff Trefftzs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For some time now, on both 1.2.x and 1.3.x, I have noticed some > curiosities about the GIMP's font handling. I have downloaded and > installed a number of true-type fonts, most of which work fine, as long > as I run xfstt to serve them up, but a f

Re: [Gimp-user] Fonts in 1.3.15

2003-06-27 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Jeff Trefftzs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When you click on the selector button at the right of the font name, > you will get a dialog box with the six dozen liquor jugs text. > There you can set the font style, if there are any variants. This font selector dialog is likely to go away as s

Re: [Gimp-user] Fonts in 1.3.15

2003-06-26 Thread Jeff Trefftzs
Hi Mike - Fonts aren't quite as intuitive (or maybe we're both just set in our ways) as in GIMP-1.2.x, but here's how it works: 1. Double click on the text tool in the toolbox. This will give you the tool's own dialog box, where you can set the font, the size, the color, and the alignment of th

Re: [Gimp-user] Fonts

2003-06-14 Thread John Culleton
On Friday 06 June 2003 07:25 am, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > Donna Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've just recently installed Suse 8.2, and am having trouble with > > fonts :-) Most of the Script Fu examples won't work - they fail > > horribly 'cos they can't find the fonts. > > Did yo

Re: [Gimp-user] Fonts

2003-06-06 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Donna Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've just recently installed Suse 8.2, and am having trouble with > fonts :-) Most of the Script Fu examples won't work - they fail > horribly 'cos they can't find the fonts. Did you install the freefonts package? Most scripts refer to fonts found

Re: [Gimp-user] fonts

2002-01-29 Thread Joshua Thorin Messer
Here are some references from the Debian-user list: >> How do I install truetype fonts which came from my windows font >> collection into Debian ( particularly in X)? I am using Potato. > >Debian specific: >http://www.paulandlesley.org/linux/ > >Non-Debian specific: >http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO

Re: [Gimp-user] fonts

2002-01-27 Thread A Guy Called Tyketto
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 10:30:13AM -0500, John Culleton wrote: > On Saturday 26 January 2002 22:43, Richard Konrad wrote: > > This may be an old topic. > > > > I am trying to create a new logo using gimp but the fonts it (redhat > > 7.2) comes with are extremely limiting. Where can I downloa

Re: [Gimp-user] fonts

2002-01-27 Thread Jeff Trefftzs
Hi Richard - There are a number of font repositories on the web where you can get free fonts. Since they come and go with alarming frequency, your best bet is to do a search for something like "free fonts" and see what you get. With RH 7.2 I think you already have a true-type font server, s

Re: [Gimp-user] fonts

2002-01-27 Thread John Culleton
On Saturday 26 January 2002 22:43, Richard Konrad wrote: > This may be an old topic. > > I am trying to create a new logo using gimp but the fonts it (redhat > 7.2) comes with are extremely limiting. Where can I download and > install more fonts (decorative ones like windows parisian etc) >

Re: [Gimp-user] Fonts

2001-04-30 Thread Matthias Wiehl
An unnamed person <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > do regular X bitmap fonts work with Gimp? Yes. You can tell your X font server where your bitmap fonts live by adding the respective paths to your XF86Config file. The next time the X server is started [1] the fonts should show up in Gimp's fonts