Hi all,

I have some Perl scripts that connect to a Gimp server and generate images. I want to upgrade to the 2.2 version of Gimp and I know that I have to change the font names. That's it, I pass a font to the script in order to generate an image having a text on it. The question is if it is a correspondence between the old font names (ver 1.2) and the one for version 2.2.

Thanks,
Andrei

Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 20:26 -0500, Andrei Simion wrote:

I have some Perl scripts that connect to a Gimp server and generate images. I want to upgrade to the 2.2 version of Gimp and I know that I have to change the font names. That's it, I pass a font to the script in order to generate an image having a text on it. The question is if it is a correspondence between the old font names (ver 1.2) and the one for version 2.2.

GIMP 2.x has some code that tries to come up with a good guess in case you are using the old font descriptions. This is used to interpret the parasites written by the old GIMP Dynamic Text plug-in. You could have look at that code (app/text/gimptext-xlfd.c).

But I would suggest you just make yourself familiar with the X Logical Font Description (that is the old style) and the way that Pango font descriptions work. The string represensation used for fonts in Pango is explained at
http://library.gnome.org/devel/pango/unstable/pango-Fonts.html#pango-font-description-from-string

Thanks, but I cannot find what I am looking for.

I need to get the list of font names that can be passed to the Gimp server, 2.2 version.

Let's say I want to pass this font 'FrutigerBold bold Italic normal'. What is the new format of this font for version 2.2 of Gimp.

Thanks, Andrei

Sven

Kevin Cozens wrote:

Andrei Simion wrote:

Let's say I want to pass this font 'FrutigerBold bold Italic normal'. What is the new format of this font for version 2.2 of Gimp.

Would you believe that it is simply "FrutigerBold Bold Italic"? Use the name of the font followed by the style modifiers.

This is what we use and it worked fine with Gimp 1.2. version, but I've been told the font description has changed for 2.x versions.

BTW, why are you upgrading to GIMP 2.2 version when GIMP 2.4 has been released?

It has to do with the sys admin.

Thanks for the help.

Andrei