On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 11:59 AM vincents wrote:

Hello Everyone

I'm using Gimp 2.10.14 under Ubuntu and I'm trying to use the Streewear font (https://www.dafontfree.io/streetwear-font-free/) for a creation but I can't access some glyphs.

I checked with online tools such https://opentype.js.org and the characters I'm interested in (for example id 264 -> E.ALT) don't have unicode so it's impossible to display them in the text with shift+ctrl+u :(

I need an Illustrator/Photoshop or is it possible with Gimp?

Hello,

Any half-decent font manager, including free ones, will give you the possibility to open the full map of characters, pick the one you need, then copy/paste it.

Here is Font Manager doing just that:

https://i.imgur.com/DvChS0e.png

http://fontmanager.github.io/

Alex

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 2:14 PM vincents wrote:

Hi Alex,

Thank you for your answer !

So I have installer this font manager you talked about but no help, I still cannot see all the glyphs. It seems that I cant see those without unicode.

https://imgur.com/a/geXO5UV

Okay, so I grabbed the file and opened it in FontForge. I'm guessing you are talking about glyphs towards the bottom.

https://i.imgur.com/kWDJqXY.png

They all have '-1' Unicode value. This is so messed up. Basically you have two options:

1. Find software that would access glyphs that don't belong to any Unicode block. I think the only one that did that was Fontmatrix, and it's not in the Ubuntu repository anymore. Maybe in some PPAs.

2. Use FontForge to map the glyphs that you need to real Unicode characters inside known blocks. As a quick hackaround, you could use smth like Latin Extended A or Latin Extended B: https://unicode-table.com/en/blocks/latin-extended-b/.

For that, if my understanding is correct:

1. Use 'Encoding > Compact' to see everything in one window 2. Click to select a glyph you want to remap 3. Use 'Element > Glyph Info..."
4. Set new value using reference in the link above, press OK

When you are done, uncheck 'Compact' encoding option, export the font file, install it instead of the one you already installed.

In fact, there's option 3: annoy the type designer just enough to get this fixed :)

Alex

On 3/11/2020 02:53, Alexandre Prokoudine via gimp-user-list wrote:

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 2:14 PM vincents wrote:

Hi Alex,

Thank you for your answer !

So I have installer this font manager you talked about but no help, I still cannot see all the glyphs. It seems that I cant see those without unicode.

https://imgur.com/a/geXO5UV

Okay, so I grabbed the file and opened it in FontForge. I'm guessing you are talking about glyphs towards the bottom.

https://i.imgur.com/kWDJqXY.png

They all have '-1' Unicode value. This is so messed up. Basically you have two options:

1. Find software that would access glyphs that don't belong to any Unicode block. I think the only one that did that was Fontmatrix, and it's not in the Ubuntu repository anymore. Maybe in some PPAs.

2. Use FontForge to map the glyphs that you need to real Unicode characters inside known blocks. As a quick hackaround, you could use smth like Latin Extended A or Latin Extended B: https://unicode-table.com/en/blocks/latin-extended-b/.

For that, if my understanding is correct:

1. Use 'Encoding > Compact' to see everything in one window 2. Click to select a glyph you want to remap 3. Use 'Element > Glyph Info..."
4. Set new value using reference in the link above, press OK

When you are done, uncheck 'Compact' encoding option, export the font file, install it instead of the one you already installed.

In fact, there's option 3: annoy the type designer just enough to get this fixed :)

Alex

Just a user here, but I assume GIMP only accesses the Unicode CMAP for a ttf/otf font.  For freeware Font Forge is probably your best bet to get at the full glyph index.  There's some better payware for Win or Mac, no idea about Linux distros.

scott s.

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On Wed, 2020-03-11 at 09:59 +0100, vincents wrote:

I'm using Gimp 2.10.14 under Ubuntu and I'm trying to use the Streewear font
(https://www.dafontfree.io/streetwear-font-free/) for a creation but I can't access some glyphs.

GIMP does not have a glyphs palette i’m afraid, and also it can only use glyphs that are mapped to characters. The Streetware font has access to the glphs at the end via the OpenType alternate glyphs mechanism, but GIMP doesn't support OpenType features and alternates.

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On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 7:22 PM Liam R E Quin wrote:

On Wed, 2020-03-11 at 09:59 +0100, vincents wrote:

I'm using Gimp 2.10.14 under Ubuntu and I'm trying to use the Streewear font
(https://www.dafontfree.io/streetwear-font-free/) for a creation but I can't access some glyphs.

GIMP does not have a glyphs palette i’m afraid, and also it can only use glyphs that are mapped to characters. The Streetware font has access to the glphs at the end via the OpenType alternate glyphs mechanism, but GIMP doesn't support OpenType features and alternates.

Oh, I'll be damned, you are completely right, and I messed up. They are referenced via the aalt table. Yes, not much we can do in GIMP right now.

Alex

I'm using Gimp 2.10.14 under Ubuntu and I'm trying to use the Nexa font ( https://fontsio.com/nexa-font-free/ ) for creation but I can't
access some glyphs too.

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