Gimp fonts question

[sktsee]

On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:32:35 +0000, R Kimber wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:24:41 -0800
> NoOp wrote:
> 
>> > 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).
> 
> Thanks, but there's nothing there (except fonts)
> 
>> This might be of help:
>> http://www.gimp.org/unix/fonts.html
> 
> I did look at that, but it seems to focus on adding fonts, rather than
> subtracting them, as it were.
> 
> 
I think discussion on smarter font management has been around for a long 
time, and while some progress has been made on establishing a framework, 
there remains a lot of work to be done. Here's a couple of links on the 
subject:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FontManagement
http://live.gnome.org/fonts

In the meantime, you might try a program like fontmatrix (which is in 
universe) or font-manager (found here: http://code.google.com/p/font-
manager) to do some basic font management. Both programs allow for things 
like deactivating/activating fonts, creating font collections, tagging, 
displaying font info, etc...

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sktsee