A long while back I had a selection of fonts available for Gimp. I had instructions for installing the fonts and making them work. I recall there was a directory in X11 somewhere that was involved. When you used the text function a list appeared from which you could select a typeface and size. Now all that seems to have gone.

Now I have forgotten the magic formula, And the www.gimp.org site seems not to mention the issue.

Would some kind soul please point my errant fingers to the correct howto and downloads? I have Slackware Linux 10.1 and both Gimp 2.2 and 2.3.
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John Culleton
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On Saturday 28 May 2005 12:32 am, Gezim Hoxha wrote:

On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 16:00 +0000, John R. Culleton wrote:

A long while back I had a selection of fonts available for Gimp. I had instructions for installing the fonts and making them work. I recall there was a directory in X11 somewhere that was involved. When you used the text function a list appeared from which you could select a typeface and size. Now all that seems to have gone.

In gimp 2.2, if you don't necessarily want the fonts installed on the whole system (i.e. the fonts will only work in gimp), then you could just put the fonts in a directory (ex. /home/gezim/fonts/) then start gimp and go to "File>Preferences" (in the main window) then on the left hand side, click the arrow beside "Folders" (this will expand the "Folders"). Finally, click on "Fonts". Now on the right half of the window, click the plus sign, then in the text field enter the location of the font's folder or click "..." to browse manually. The font directory should be listed below the text field, and without a checkmark under "writable". Now you can click "OK" and then restart GIMP. As for choosing fonts, make sure the "tool options windows" is open, however, if not, go to "File>Dialogs>Tool Options".

Thanks for a lucid explanation. I learned the following additional things:

1. To add fonts globally create a file called /etc/fonts/local.conf like this:
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/usr/local/fonts/freefont /usr/local/fonts/sharefont

------------------------------ (Of course different paths may be specified.) Then run fc-cache.

2 . In Gimp, follow the instructions you give above in re. the preferences dialog. However there is no plus sign in Gimp 2.3. Instead you click on a little sheet of paper icon, then type in the directory in the little window to the right of the icon.
3. in Gimp, when in the fonts tool dialog, to get a list of the available fonts click on the square with "Aa" in it. This simple step eluded me.

I am reminded of Bill Cosby's kindergarten routine: "One and one is two."
"Crazy, man, but what's a two?"

Again thanks. I hope your comments and my additions may be useful to another person operating at the kindergarten level.