Re: GIMP using TTF fonts. [Solved]

[Jon Wood <jon@jellybob.co.uk>]

On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 18:40, Alan Chandler wrote:
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> On Saturday 26 Apr 2003 5:58 pm, Jon Wood wrote:
> > I'm trying to get The GIMP to use ttf fonts, but can't seem to work it
> > out... I've tried several howtos, and have installed the ms core fonts
> > package with apt-get, and they appear in KDE and Gnome 2 apps, but not
> > in The GIMP or Phoenix... can anyone enlighten me as to what I need to
> > do?
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> > For reference my XF86Config is attached.
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> Depends on which Gimp you are using 1.2 uses the fonts provided by the 
> xserver, gimp 1.3 uses (I think) fontconfig fonts.
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> Looking at you XF86Config - you don't seem to have any truetype fonts in the 
> font paths for the server.

Thanks, had to rummage around in the Defoma docs, but it's working now.

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Jon Wood

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