Star Why I Ditched MacOSX for Linux - A Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 Review
Linked by Jon Atkinson on Tue 20th May 2003 18:14 UTC
Linux I entered the world of Apple hardware about 3 months ago now, with a second-hand iBook2. It was a 500mHz, 256mb, ATI Rage 128 model, with a standard CD-Rom drive. I spent the first few days trying to tweak Mac OS X to my liking, then a few further weeks installing and learning to use the applications I thought I'd need. Chimera, BBEdit, the developer tools, even the Fink X server so I could use Gaim.
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Re: fonts ?
by alley_cat on Tue 20th May 2003 06:27 UTC

For example in Gimp only half of the fonts has been usable ( I could select all but only half of it worked with the effects).


I just tried on my box, with gimp 1.3. It shows all fonts available to fontconfig, but not all work. The Gimp font engine needs scalable fonts (truetype or Type 1), the fonts that don't work are the X bitmap fonts. (Gimp 1.3 has a small preview in the font selection, that one looks strange for bitmap fonts, so it's easy to see what fonts work, though i think they should just be removed from the font selection)