Hi

I'm trying to migrate a suite of legacy code running gimp 1.2 on Redhat to a Debian platform and gimp 2.4 .

I am starting gimp with /usr/bin/gimp --no-interface --console-messages --verbose --batch '(extension-perl-server 1 0 0)'

The old perl code probably needs updating, but at the moment it calls text_get_extents like so:

return Gimp::text_get_extents(undef, $text, $size, PIXELS, $foundry, $font, $weight, $slant, 'normal', '*', '*', '*');

There seem to be a couple of problems. When the $text contains anything other than [a-z], [A-Z], [0-9], gimp_text_get_extents fails, saying it was called with an invalid argument.

Also, when the code does create an image with text, I'm not convinced gimp is using the font I'm requesting.

Any help much appreciated.

There seem to be a couple of problems. When the $text contains anything other than [a-z], [A-Z], [0-9], gimp_text_get_extents fails, saying it was called with an invalid

argument.

You need to make sure that your text is in UTF-8 encoding.

Thanks. That fixed it.

Also, when the code does create an image with text, I'm not convinced gimp

is

using the font I'm requesting.

Font selection changed completely with GIMP 2.0. There's some compatibility code that tries to map the X Logical Font Description font names from the old days to a font-config font description, but this code is probably not perfect.

Could you give me some more detail on this? How does the mapping work?
I am having a problem in particular with Avantgarde from foundry urw. It seems to be reverting to a more Helvetica-like font.

Thanks Luke