10-20-2023, 05:32 PM
Hello World,
This is my first post and I have two questions about text.
I am running Linux Mint and GIMP 2.10.34 Flatpak
1. I have downloaded a bunch of fonts from Google Fonts, they're all true type fonts and I want to add them to my font choices. I followed a Davies Media tutorial for adding them to a folder defined under preferences/folders/fonts
The two linked paths did not exist, so I had to create the directories to match the paths (why two, well the first didn't work). Anyway, I copied the fonts into the folders, went back to GIMP as the tutorial suggested, and select the refresh button in the fonts panel, and just like that nothing happened. Any ideas of why it didn't work and how to add new fonts?
2. Once again watching another Davies Media tutorial Top 5 text effects in GIMP and the tutorial requires you to select the three layers of text, so you can then select the selection to path. For some reason, I cannot ALT + CLICK or ALT + SHIFT + CLICK the text layers and do not get the marching ants around the text, nor the selection to path function. Is there another way or do I have an issue with my version of GIMP flatpak?
Thanks in advance
Macr
This is my first post and I have two questions about text.
I am running Linux Mint and GIMP 2.10.34 Flatpak
1. I have downloaded a bunch of fonts from Google Fonts, they're all true type fonts and I want to add them to my font choices. I followed a Davies Media tutorial for adding them to a folder defined under preferences/folders/fonts
The two linked paths did not exist, so I had to create the directories to match the paths (why two, well the first didn't work). Anyway, I copied the fonts into the folders, went back to GIMP as the tutorial suggested, and select the refresh button in the fonts panel, and just like that nothing happened. Any ideas of why it didn't work and how to add new fonts?
2. Once again watching another Davies Media tutorial Top 5 text effects in GIMP and the tutorial requires you to select the three layers of text, so you can then select the selection to path. For some reason, I cannot ALT + CLICK or ALT + SHIFT + CLICK the text layers and do not get the marching ants around the text, nor the selection to path function. Is there another way or do I have an issue with my version of GIMP flatpak?
Thanks in advance
Macr