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(03-20-2022, 07:48 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: Edit: where did you get the PDF? I don't see any on the official Gimp site.

Likely not a font, but an uncontrolled "typographic replacement". Many word processors replace the "simplistic" ASCII single and double quote from our keyboards by the "typographically correct" apostrophe or opening/closing double quotes(*). But computing languages  want the true ASCII characters, so when you copy/paste from a document you take your chancesSmile

By the way if you want to write Gimp scripts in a modern and understandable language you can do so in Python.

(*) My personal favorite was a "ZERO WIDTH NON-BREAKING SPACE" inserted in a file name by the author to make sure that MS-Word would not hyphenate the filename. So he replaced a visible alteration by a much less visible one. Two days of downtime while the operation folks figured that out, which required counting the bytes in the file name and discovering that there were a couple too many.

Thanks Ofnuts, I got the PDF from here: https://docs.gimp.org/2.4/pdf/en.pdf. I didn't know about "typographic replacement" but that totally makes sense.

So, in your opinion, is Python better than Script-fu? Or do they both have their place in scripting for GIMP? I've heard of Python but I'm not familiar with using either of them and, if I want to write GIMP scripts, I may as well start with the better one.

(03-20-2022, 08:12 AM)nelo Wrote: They do have a mailing list for comments about the website, see here: https://www.gimp.org/discuss.html#mailing-lists
"GIMP Web" should be where to go.

If it helps? Never tried myself.

Thanks nelo, I shall keep that in mind for next time Smile
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Help documentation - by kiwichick - 03-19-2022, 08:43 PM
RE: Help documentation - by Ofnuts - 03-20-2022, 07:48 AM
RE: Help documentation - by kiwichick - 03-20-2022, 08:07 PM
RE: Help documentation - by nelo - 03-20-2022, 08:12 AM
RE: Help documentation - by Ofnuts - 03-21-2022, 10:17 AM
RE: Help documentation - by kiwichick - 03-21-2022, 08:55 PM

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