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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-19 03:13:23 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-19 03:13:23 +0000 |
commit | bfaf3198ed78f910587c6196fa65016025c1a20f (patch) | |
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parent | Adding upstream version 2.10.36. (diff) | |
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Adding debian version 2.10.36-2.debian/2.10.36-2
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian new file mode 100644 index 0000000..264859c --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/README.Debian @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +gimp for Debian GNU/Linux +---------------------------- + +Online Help: +------------ +To use the online documentation, you need to install the gimp-help-en package, +and/or the appropriate gimp-help package for your language other than English, +which will allow you to use both the Help menu from within The GIMP, as well +as context help by pressing F1 while using a feature. + +COMPILING PLUGINS: +----------------- + +If you wish to compile your own plug-ins, the easiest way is to use +'gimptool-2.0', a simple tool that comes in the libgimp2.0-dev package. +This works only if you have a plug-in whose source is a single .c file, +however: + +gimptool-2.0 --install plug-in.c + +Now wasn't that easy? + + +Fonts in GIMP 2.0 (from http://www.gimp.org/unix/fonts.html) +----------------- + +In GIMP 2.0 font rendering is handled significantly different from the way it +was done in GIMP 1.0 and 1.2. GIMP no longer uses the X server to render the +fonts. Instead it uses Pango and the FreeType library. Font configuration is +handled by a small library called Fontconfig. As a result you get much better +font rendering with real antialiasing, support for bidirectional text and +various scripts. + +GIMP 2.0 (along with GTK 2) handles a variety of font formats, most notably +TrueType, OpenType and Type1. It should be emphasized that it does not use the +X server or any X font server, so don't be surprised if GIMP doesn't see the +fonts you configured in your X11 setup. + +Setting up Fonts for GIMP 2.0: + +GIMP uses Fontconfig to handle fonts, so setting up fonts for GIMP 2.0 is +merely a job of setting up Fontconfig. But GIMP is not the only application +that uses Fontconfig. Recent desktops such as GNOME-2.4 use it as well, so +there's a good chance that everything is properly setup already and fonts will +just work for you. If they don't, you will have to create or edit your font +configuration file as explained in the Fontconfig User Manual. + +Adding Fonts (system-wide): + +As soon as Fontconfig is properly setup, adding fonts is just a matter of +placing them into a directory that is searched by Fontconfig. Have a look at +/etc/fonts/fonts.conf (and perhaps /etc/fonts/local.conf) to find out what +directories are searched. After copying the fonts there, you should run +fc-cache to regenerate the fonts cache. Fonts added this way will be available +to all applications using Fontconfig. + +Adding Fonts (for GIMP only): + +You might want to install fonts for use with GIMP only or you might not have +permissions to install fonts system-wide. To make this possible, GIMP 2.0 also +looks for fonts in the GIMP specific font search path that can be configured in +your gimprc or from the Preferences Dialog. So, in order to install fonts to be +used with GIMP, you can just copy them to ~/.gimp-2.6/fonts, press the Refresh +button in the Fonts dialog and start using them. + +--- +Ari Pollak <ari@debian.org> Aug. 5, 2004 |