Gimp fonts question

[NoOp]

On 01/26/2010 06:16 AM, R Kimber wrote:
> In my Gimp preferences there are two font folders listed:
> ~/.gimp-2.6/fonts    and    ~/.fonts
> 
> However,Gimp loads a whole lot of other fonts from,
> e.g., /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/
> 
> I assume these other fonts are there for a purpose (i.e. they've been
> installed by other applications).
> 
> Is there any way of preventing these from loading in Gimp?

Perhaps check your ~/.fonts folder to see if there is a symlink to the
fonts in /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/? My
/.gimp-2.6/fonts folder is empty by default (on both 2.6.7 and 2.6.8).

> 
> Some of them, although they will print latin chars, clutter up the toolbox
> font list and the thumbnails appear as chinese or arabic chars (e.g. Kochi
> Gothic), which is somewhat distracting and not very useful when looking for
> a suitable font. Or is deletion the only answer, and if so is there a way of
> telling what effect deletion will have on other applications?  Has anyone
> deleted such fonts with no noticeably adverse effects?

This might be of help:
http://www.gimp.org/unix/fonts.html