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Bug 691782 - Font tool: Bitmap fonts (in FON-Format) are rendered as Helvetica-like fonts
Font tool: Bitmap fonts (in FON-Format) are rendered as Helvetica-like fonts
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: General
2.8.2
Other All
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Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-01-15 11:54 UTC by Moltres_rider
Modified: 2013-03-28 13:40 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Attachments
example of font not displaying properly (8.09 KB, application/octet-stream)
2013-01-15 11:54 UTC, Moltres_rider 		Details
font display image (67.66 KB, image/jpeg)
2013-01-15 22:02 UTC, Moltres_rider 		Details

Description Moltres_rider 2013-01-15 11:54:45 UTC 
Created attachment 233517 [details]
example of font not displaying properly

all .fon fonts show up as generic text in Gimp rather than in the style of the actual font... Windows 7
Comment 1 Michael Schumacher 2013-01-15 15:47:47 UTC 
Not sure if such fonts files are supposed to work at all (I'm under the impression that they aren't). There is, however, bug 362151 from 2006 which claims that a .fon font worked as expected in GIMP, but not in Inkscape.
Comment 2 Max Mustermann 2013-01-15 20:53:47 UTC 
Can you attach an image how you expect this particular font to be shown, please?
Comment 3 Moltres_rider 2013-01-15 22:02:47 UTC 
Created attachment 233547 [details]
font display image
Comment 4 Moltres_rider 2013-01-15 22:03:15 UTC 
attached
Comment 5 Max Mustermann 2013-01-16 20:02:31 UTC 
Thank you. Confirming this bug for the native Mac OS X build and thus setting OS:='All'. Also other bitmap fonts are shown as Helvetica-like fonts (on Windows it looks closest to FixedSys, on Mac to Arial Hebrew)
I expect the cause of the error in one of the underlying font libraries Freetype2 or FontConfig. FontConfig disabled bitmap font support by default a longer time ago. I tried to reenable it by applying the advices for Linux analogously to Windows (e.g. copyied C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\etc\fonts\conf.avail\70-yes-bitmaps.conf to ..\conf.d, removed C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\etc\fonts\conf.avail\70-no-bitmaps.conf, refreshed the font cache in GIMP and extra restarted GIMP) - nothing helped.
I reported the bug to the FontConfig maintainers, see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59480. If they accept and fix it, we should keep this bug as reminder to use a fixed FontConfig library.
Comment 6 Michael Natterer 2013-02-13 00:25:51 UTC 
Sven, are you saying that this is not GIMP's fault and will get fixed
(if at all) by a fix in fontconfig? If so, please close this bug
as NOTGNOME.
Comment 7 Moltres_rider 2013-02-13 13:50:01 UTC 
I visited the link where you reported the fontconfig bug and I saw they asked if it ever worked and that was unanswered... I can tell you it worked it 2.6.10!!!
Comment 8 Michael Natterer 2013-03-28 13:40:08 UTC 
The comments in the fontconfig bug clearly tell us that the problem is
there, not in gimp, closing as NOTGNOME.