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