Gimp Fonts

[fangbite]

I use gimp 2 somehting (latest) in both linux and windows for purposes of my webcomic. However, the linux version of the gimp I have doesn't have all the fonts my windows version has. I only care about the Comic Sans font (thats the font i use for speech bubbles) and was wondering if someone could tell me how to add the Comic Sans font to linux gimp.

[devries]

Just copy the fonts (called comic.ttf and comicbd.ttf) from your Windows install to /home/your name/.fonts. (or if you use KDE, open konqueror, type fonts:/ and drag and drop the fonts. Or use the kde control center) That should do it.

 

Good luck

[fangbite]

too bad my laptop (the one with linux and the gimp i'm using in linux) doesn't have a windows gimp on it.

[smurfy]

Got Floppy?

 

The two files are 100K max.

 

Or you may even find them zipped here.

Edited September 26, 2004 by smurfy

[fangbite]

Well I did what you said. However the fonts didn't show up. So i decided to restart gimp(nothing), logout/login (nothing) then restart the computer. Now I have a new problem. I cannot boot into linux now. All i get is command line because KDE cannot open default font 'fixed'. So now I go off to another part of the forum to see if someone can help me fix my linux install.

[smurfy]

Did what who said? SO you've d/loaded the two files, unzipped them into /home/username/.fonts and now you can't boot into X, only to a console?

 

You might want to take a look at this little tute:

http://www.linuxcompatible.org/thread19-1.html

 

There's a little more to it that devries and I had let on... :( sorry

Edited September 27, 2004 by smurfy

[aperahama]

Well I did what you said.  However the fonts didn't show up.  So i decided to restart gimp(nothing), logout/login (nothing) then restart the computer.  Now I have a new problem.  I cannot boot into linux now.  All i get is command line because KDE cannot open default font 'fixed'.   So now I go off to another part of the forum to see if someone can help me fix my linux install.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

Something similar happened to me a few months ago when I installed a new font.

 

My XF86Config-4 had been changed by the installation of the fonts

It looked like this

Section "Files"
   # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
   # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
   # the X server to render fonts.
   FontPath  "/usr/local/share/fonts"
   FontPath  "/usr/share/fonts"
   FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
   FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
   FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont"
   FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"
   FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
   FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mdk"
   FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
   FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts"
   FontPath  "/usr/local/share/fonts/ttf"
   FontPath  "/usr/share/fonts/afms"
   FontPath  "/usr/share/fonts/default"
   FontPath  "/usr/share/fonts/otf"
   FontPath  "/usr/share/fonts/override"
   FontPath  "/usr/share/fonts/otf/mdk"
   FontPath  "/usr/share/fonts/ttf"
   FontPath  "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
   FontPath  "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/vera"
   FontPath  "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
EndSection

 

Where as it should have looked like

 

Section "Files"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection

 

Once I found the problem and changed it I had not problem booting the GUI and the fonts worked too.

Edited September 28, 2004 by aperahama