On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:51:44AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> bill,
>
> debian doesn't have gfontsel, but it does have gfontview. what a great app!
> i just spent the last 10 minutes playing around and having fun with it.
Odd... I have gfontsel here on my Debian box at work. 'course, I have
Helix/Gnome installed, so...
> gfontview was able to view my TT fonts, but i had to tell it what directory
> they're in. once it knew their location, it viewed them fine.
>
> i take this to be a bad omen. my X config file is set up correctly. and in
> fact, many other apps can view these TT fonts. since i'm using X 4.0, my TT
> fonts should be as transparent to use as any other font.
>
> well, i just wanted to make sure people here can access TT fonts from within
> gimp. if anyone has immediate ideas, i'm all ears.
>
> at this point, i'm heading over to deja.com...
That was gonna be my suggestion. :) Or #gimp on irc.openprojects.net.
Or gimp.org (check for any FAQs)
Good luck!
-bill!
(wishing fonts didn't suck so much)
