GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 707224
Fonts not displayed correctly
Last modified: 2013-10-05 11:07:55 UTC
After Upgrading from 2.8.2 to 2.8.6 my actual project won't show up the font i used. I can see it in the project but when i try to change the text a completely different Font displays. the name of the font is correct so far.
Which font?
The Font is TERMINAL. When i open up the saved project (saved with 2.8.2) it shows up the correct font, but when i then try to change the text it suddenly changes into something else i don't recognize. Going back to Version 2.8.2 oder 2.8.4 is impossible due to the wrong lib-versions installed by 2.8.6. I just tried to reproduce the error on another computer with 2.8.2. Generated a text with font Terminal size 130 and saved it. After upgrading to 2.8.6 i loaded the text and changed it without the error. Difference between the two computers is the first one has Windows 7 64bit and additional Fonts installed. The second one has Windows XP SP3 32bit. I will completely reinstall 2.8.6 on the first one to make sure no old programparts cause the damage.
Hello, Is it an update of GIMP only or is the OS fully re-installed? Where is installed the font you used? The fonts are not embedded in your file, so if ever the same fonts are not installed on the computer, you won't see them in your file. Just making sure you know this, because it looks like the problem is that GIMP won't find the fonts. The reason why it still shows up at first is that the previous rendering is saved. But as soon as you need to change something about the text, it tries to re-render, and since it won't find this font, it takes another one.
The OS is the same as before. No Fonts have been deleted. I just updated GIMP and suddenly it made chaos with the font selected.
Hi, we had various font issues because of a broken configuration of the font system in GIMP 2.8.6 package for Windows. I am not sure if your issue has the same origin, but could you try the following and tell us if it fixes it: 1/ Edit C:\Program Files\Gimp 2\etc\fonts\fonts.conf (or wherever else GIMP is installed, but that's the default path) with a text editor. 2/ You'll find a line like this: <include ignore_missing="yes">/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/etc/fonts/conf.d</include> 3/ Change it to: <include ignore_missing="yes">conf.d</include> Restart GIMP, and open your file with the disappeared font. Then tell us if it is back. Thanks! :-)
I don't have the original file with the old font inside but after i set up the font.cfg like you told to the Terminalfont is selectable again. So it seemed to be the path-problem. Thank you.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 708110 ***