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- Problems with fonts have probably been responsible for more GIMP 2 bug
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- they have been caused by malformed font files giving trouble to
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- Another known problem is that Pango 1.2 cannot load fonts that don't
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- When this happens, it often seems to users that GIMP has crashed. It
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- Unfortunately, this annoying situation is caused by an interaction
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