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mtPaint 3.40 needs better fonts
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ThoriumBlvd
 Joined: 04 Oct 2013 Posts: 159 Location: N.E. USA |
Not sure wherein the problem exists, but mtpaint 3.40 has quite a broken assortment of fonts. Some will not bold or italicize. About the only font that functions is DejaVu Sans or Serif. That really limiting. I am using slacko-5.5, and DL from slackware. Does anyone else have this problem? |
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Flash
Official Dog Handler  Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 11225 Location: Arizona USA |
My WAG (Wild-Ass-Guess) is that mtPaint uses whatever fonts come with Puppy. If the fonts that come with Puppy don't include whatever is needed to make italics, then mtPaint can't do italics. I could be wrong. |
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don570
 Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 3540 Location: Ontario |
A Truetype font should be able to do italics and bold. It is possible to install Microsoft's fonts in puppy linux. It's explained somewhere on the forum. _______________________________________ |
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don570
Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 3540 Location: Ontario |
Shinobar explains winfonts and made a pet package to obtain the fonts of Windows. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=53044 ______________________________________ |
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wjaguar
Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 293 |
Technically, that isn't so - no single font is "able to do" any other style but its own predesigned one. For that, we have font packs - group of font files (can be Truetype or bitmap) with same overall design but different styles. "Regular"/"Book", "Bold", "Italic"/"Oblique", and most times "Bold Italic" too, is the usual set. But if some style is absent, that is it. Because a different style is a wholly separate font, just designed to look more-or-less alike the baseline font of the same name. |
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Flash
Official Dog Handler Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 11225 Location: Arizona USA |
wjaguar, how can font packs be added to mtPaint in Puppy? |
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wjaguar
Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 293 |
Depends on the font tool. For the GTK+ based one, the fonts need be indexed by fontconfig - i.e., need be present in one of directories listed in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf at the time when "fc-cache -f" is last run. For the FreeType based one, the fonts need be indexed by mtPaint itself - as described in section 3.2.7.1 of the handbook. |
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