User Feedback :: The GIMP, will it work?



I would like to know if I can use The GIMP?
Yesterday I attempted to remaster DSL to include Gimp. Left out some files/directories, so it did not boot. However, I did try it using the .start_synaptic script, and found that even with the addition of 100 dpi fonts, Gimp cannot make decent font related files. Same thing happened in Luit Linux, they were able to master it in, but has a font problem also. I have not solved the problem, but you might want to download Luit Linux to see how it goes. I found that the size of DSL with Firefox, Gimp in the remaster was about 75 MB, or greater, if I had not
left out some of it, required to boot.
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Your Gimp work is better off in Mandrake or Redhat. I have to use Mandrake 8 to make png logos (text) for my remaster's opening screen.
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The Gimp runs fine with a hard disk install on DSL.
It's easier if you install synaptic first. Its a gui front end to apt-get and it gives you more of an idea what you are doing :)
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?
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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