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+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