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GIMP not remembering Fonts

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GIMP not remembering Fonts MAD_King 30 Nov 18:00
  GIMP not remembering Fonts Ofnuts 01 Dec 12:55
   GIMP not remembering Fonts MAD_King 01 Dec 15:55
    GIMP not remembering Fonts Ofnuts 02 Dec 21:19
  GIMP not remembering Fonts Liam R. E. Quin 02 Dec 21:35
MAD_King
2016-11-30 18:00:37 UTC (over 7 years ago)
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GIMP not remembering Fonts

Hello,

when I create a text and use a font, save the file, close and re-open it, it does not remember the font which was used. It always shows either "Sans" or no font.

Ofnuts
2016-12-01 12:55:41 UTC (over 7 years ago)

GIMP not remembering Fonts

On 30/11/16 19:00, MAD_King wrote:

Hello,

when I create a text and use a font, save the file, close and re-open it, it does not remember the font which was used. It always shows either "Sans" or no font.

By "saving" you mean saving as XCF? Adn the mayer is still a text layer (with a "T" icon instead of thumbnail in the layers list)?

MAD_King
2016-12-01 15:55:11 UTC (over 7 years ago)
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GIMP not remembering Fonts

By "saving" you mean saving as XCF? Adn the mayer is still a text layer
(with a "T" icon instead of thumbnail in the layers list)?

Yes on both

Ofnuts
2016-12-02 21:19:10 UTC (over 7 years ago)

GIMP not remembering Fonts

On 01/12/16 16:55, MAD_King wrote:

By "saving" you mean saving as XCF? Adn the mayer is still a text layer
(with a "T" icon instead of thumbnail in the layers list)?

Yes on both

Get the text-info python plugin here; https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-tools/files/scripts/

When it is installed, if you right-click on any layer in the Layers listn there is an additional item at the bottom of the menu: "Show text information".

Then try this:

* create an image, and add a text layer.

* save the image to XCF (but don't quit yet)(the text information is generated only when the image is saved after the text layer has been created)

* use "Show text information", it shoud say something like this;

Text layer "AAAAA": (text "AAAAA" (font "Gilgongo")
(font-size 60.000000)
(font-size-unit pixels)
(antialias yes)
(language "en-ie")
(base-direction ltr)
(color (color-rgb 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000)) (justify left)
(box-mode dynamic)
(box-unit pixels)
(hinting yes)

(this appears in the Error Console dialog if you have one, otherwise it will be a popup).

* Close the image, re-open it

* Re-use "Show text information". Is the text info still there?

Liam R. E. Quin
2016-12-02 21:35:16 UTC (over 7 years ago)

GIMP not remembering Fonts

On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 19:00 +0100, MAD_King wrote:

Hello,

when I create a text and use a font, save the file, close and re-open it, it
does not remember the font which was used. It always shows either "Sans"  or no font.

What is "it" here eactly? Do you mean the on-canvas text widget when you are editing the text of that same text layer? Or the tool options font display? Or something else?

Did you set the font through Tool Options, or by selecting text on canvas and using the on-canvas font box?

Does it make a difference where you click in the text?

Is the text of the layer shown using the right font, or does it, too, revert to "Sans"?

Do you have the font installed in your system still?

What colour socks are you wearing? :) I.e. what else should I have asked? Which version of GIMP exactly? Which Linux distribution and version exactly? (or Windows XP? or Mac OS X 10.1.3?)

Liam