Adding TTF fonts to gimp2.0pre3

dhbiker · 02-27-2004, 05:55 AM

I've been trying to get a ttf font added to gimp with no success, I followed rodrin's instructions in thread 77536 but gimp still doesn't see the fonts, all my other programs do! what am I doing wrong?

if it helps I installed the font (CaptainPodd.ttf) in /usr/share/fonts/TTF/ doing the following steps

Code:

su
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mkdir /usr/share/fonts/TTF
cp CaptainPodd.ttf /usr/share/fonts/TTF/
chmod 644 /usr/share/fonts/TTF/CaptainPodd.ttf
/usr/X11R6/bin/fc-cache
cd /usr/share/fonts/TTF
/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontscale
/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir
vi /etc/XF86Config and uncommented out Load "freetype", in Section "Files"
added "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
saved XF86Config
restarted X-server

all my other programs now have the new ttf font available except gimp! What do I need to do to get gimp to play ball?

dhbiker · 02-29-2004, 03:28 PM

ok, I got desperate since no-one seems to be able to help me and so I uninstalled gimp and then re-installed it. When I re-installed it and checked the gimp font list my font was there! Any ideas why this has happened and how I can avoid it in the future? I don't really want to re-install gimp everytime I want a new font!!

hw-tph · 02-29-2004, 03:31 PM

A simple way of adding truetype fonts in XFree86 4.2 and later is creating a ~/.fonts directory, copy the font there and type fc-cache -v as yourself (not root). Then your apps should be able to see the new fonts.

Håkan

dhbiker · 02-29-2004, 03:49 PM

brilliant, thanks very much!! I got it sorted out, it was a problem with the directory permissions for the directory the font was in, doing fc-cache -v as my login instead of root showed this!