Grim
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Posted: April 11 2004,21:50 |
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| Quote (Rapidweather @ April 11 2004,10:59) | Well, I only get less than 30 fonts, and most of them report that they are 2-byte fonts and will not display correctly. Sure enough, when you make a logo with one of them, the edges are rough. Gimp runs ok, but that is what I use it for, to make
web logos, and so I am undecided as to putting it in a remaster. I even tried putting the 100 dpi fonts in the remaster, and that had no effect.
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Usually, before I burn a remaster to cd, I test it off the hard drive with a boot floppy, in case I have any errors. Could be that something else is missing in DSL that would be needed to support a wide selection of fonts for Gimp, I notice that
Luit Linux followed the same path as I did, and wound up with the same result.
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What, then, is needed to give Gimp the additional fonts, and which one of the many
Debian packages that are available using Snyaptic, is required? |
It's not gimp's fault, it's due to the way the xserver is configured. KDrive should be able to support all the font renderers supported by XFree86.
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You need to include Freetype, and you'll need to recompile the Kdrive servers to use the fonts. Try the above link for more info. Once you've compiled in support, you should be able to use Type1 and True Type fonts.
Once you get that licked, do a google search for `free fonts'.
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apt-get install freetype
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