(Newbie guide) How to download text on to gimp.

[Ajana]

Hello, this is my third tutorial. The Brush, The Userbar, now the text. Feel free to tell me what I'm doing wrong and what I'm doing right, I hope you don't get stuck on this, I will try my best to do it clear as possible.

Ok then lets start.

Step one:
First go to http://www.Dafont.com there you can find your font you want in your signiture I did abit of a map of the site.



Step two:

download your text by clicking download if it don't say free for personal use don't. I'm going to download the text in my signiture. "Jellyka Estrya's Handwriting."
Now if you have firefox do what the following image says (Double click.)



Step three:

Go into your control pannel and double click font, a big screen should come up.



Step four:

This part is probaly the hardest bit so listen up, ok now you need to get your text into the list of fonts. Ok there is two way, the easy one is to copy the font file in my case the Jellyka estrya handwriting, and simply paste it into the file then your done but wait, search for it first. If you can't find do this. Go to the font file Jellyka estrya handwriting for me. Highlight it and click move this file, highlight to get this option. Now, I reccomend you move it to local disk (:c) now then, go onto the fonts page with the list of fonts click on file, then go to install new font. Now click drive (c:) Double click windows option in the list of programs, It should find your text then select it and click download font.

Step six: Reload gimp and then when you get into gimp click the A icon and then type in eg "J" it should come up with my text if I installed one called xion it I would type in x then It would find me xion. Good you can now use text in gimp.

Series 2 of Newbie guide to gimp.

Key for other OS:

# Windows Vista : Right-click on the font files > "Install"
# Windows XP : Put the font files into C:\Windows\Fonts
# Mac OS X : Double-click the font file > "Install font" button

Thanks for reading.

[Amuro Ray VV]

This good for newbie
I think you could joint with one topic instead of many topic it will make newbie confuse

The linux is diffirent
For all user
if you has root accout, login to root account using "su" command on the terminal
You copy the ttf file to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/

or you only then copy ttf file to /home/<Your home folder name here>/.fonts/

[undrgrnd]

or you could also copy the fonts directly to the font folder of GIMP so only GIMP uses those fonts. . .

i don't like the fonts getting into my Office Tools



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and as to what Amuro said. . .

linux

[Ajana]

Lol (:

[Amuro Ray VV]

undrgrnd
What wrong with it? Why you use that smile

I can do anything i need from win in Linux except games

[sky-fyre]

This good for newbie
I think you could joint with one topic instead of many topic it will make newbie confuse

The linux is diffirent
For all user
if you has root accout, login to root account using "su" command on the terminal
You copy the ttf file to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/

or you only then copy ttf file to /home/<Your home folder name here>/.fonts/

at school, since i dont have sudo, i just go to kcontrol center (i think. or just control center i guess xD) and system wutsit, font installer. copy them in and click ok, then voila. =3

[Oakesyboy]

nice tut.
I especially like your handwrititing

[Amuro Ray VV]

at school, since i dont have sudo, i just go to kcontrol center (i think. or just control center i guess xD) and system wutsit, font installer. copy them in and click ok, then voila. =3

Yeah if you use KDE like me but well not many people who use linux is use KDE, someone use GNOME too and orther Window Manager

So this is the basic .

[Siddharth]

simple tut
and nice mouse(hand)writing

[sky-fyre]

Yeah if you use KDE like me but well not many people who use linux is use KDE, someone use GNOME too and orther Window Manager

So this is the basic .

i use windowmaker when i can ^^

[Ajana]

Thanks for commenting guys.

[Ajana]

Hmm, I didn't have any tea when I was mouse writing what ever you want to call it lol.

[schrottplatz]

.... /user/.gimp-2.6/fonts/

[TRiNiTYfemi]

Thankyou so much for posting this up... it's been a great help