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- gimp for Debian GNU/Linux
- ----------------------------
-
- Online Help:
- ------------
- To use the online documentation, you need to install the gimp-help-en package,
- and/or the appropriate gimp-help package for your language other than English,
- which will allow you to use both the Help menu from within The GIMP, as well
- as context help by pressing F1 while using a feature.
-
- COMPILING PLUGINS:
- -----------------
-
- If you wish to compile your own plug-ins, the easiest way is to use
- 'gimptool-2.0', a simple tool that comes in the libgimp2.0-dev package.
- This works only if you have a plug-in whose source is a single .c file,
- however:
-
- gimptool-2.0 --install plug-in.c
-
- Now wasn't that easy?
-
-
- Fonts in GIMP 2.0 (from http://www.gimp.org/unix/fonts.html)
- -----------------
-
- In GIMP 2.0 font rendering is handled significantly different from the way it
- was done in GIMP 1.0 and 1.2. GIMP no longer uses the X server to render the
- fonts. Instead it uses Pango and the FreeType library. Font configuration is
- handled by a small library called Fontconfig. As a result you get much better
- font rendering with real antialiasing, support for bidirectional text and
- various scripts.
-
- GIMP 2.0 (along with GTK 2) handles a variety of font formats, most notably
- TrueType, OpenType and Type1. It should be emphasized that it does not use the
- X server or any X font server, so don't be surprised if GIMP doesn't see the
- fonts you configured in your X11 setup.
-
- Setting up Fonts for GIMP 2.0:
-
- GIMP uses Fontconfig to handle fonts, so setting up fonts for GIMP 2.0 is
- merely a job of setting up Fontconfig. But GIMP is not the only application
- that uses Fontconfig. Recent desktops such as GNOME-2.4 use it as well, so
- there's a good chance that everything is properly setup already and fonts will
- just work for you. If they don't, you will have to create or edit your font
- configuration file as explained in the Fontconfig User Manual.
-
- Adding Fonts (system-wide):
-
- As soon as Fontconfig is properly setup, adding fonts is just a matter of
- placing them into a directory that is searched by Fontconfig. Have a look at
- /etc/fonts/fonts.conf (and perhaps /etc/fonts/local.conf) to find out what
- directories are searched. After copying the fonts there, you should run
- fc-cache to regenerate the fonts cache. Fonts added this way will be available
- to all applications using Fontconfig.
-
- Adding Fonts (for GIMP only):
-
- You might want to install fonts for use with GIMP only or you might not have
- permissions to install fonts system-wide. To make this possible, GIMP 2.0 also
- looks for fonts in the GIMP specific font search path that can be configured in
- your gimprc or from the Preferences Dialog. So, in order to install fonts to be
- used with GIMP, you can just copy them to ~/.gimp-2.6/fonts, press the Refresh
- button in the Fonts dialog and start using them.
-
- ---
- Ari Pollak <ari@debian.org> Aug. 5, 2004
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