Same behavior with the Gimp: 1. Start it from the command line in a console window 2. Expect normal behavior 3. No text characters are observable in the program. Each text character has been replaced with a little square.
Console output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gimp (gimp:6024): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Bitstream Vera Sans Bold 9' (gimp:6024): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Bitstream Vera Sans Bold 9' (gimp:6024): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='Bitstream Vera Sans Bold 9', text='English Hello' (gimp:6024): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Bitstream Vera Sans 9' (gimp:6024): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Bitstream Vera Sans 9' (gimp:6024): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='Bitstream Vera Sans 9', text='English Hello' (gimp:6024): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Bitstream Vera Sans Oblique 9' (gimp:6024): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='Bitstream Vera Sans Oblique 9', text='You can drop dockable dialogs here' -- Scrambled Fonts in Firefox 3 and Gimp after TT Font Installation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/232417 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs