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gimp Tools text select text and hover to see name of the font when not installed on s - JJGimp - 04-14-2023
Hello, I had to reinstall gimp and some of the fonts in my previously created xcf files are not "on the system" - I need to make an edit and need to find out what the font is to reinstall it. Somehow when I was on the text layer and selected "Tools > Text" and selected the text, while the text box was in red and said "Standard" (Since font not on system) there was a "pop up"? that identified the font. When I try to duplicate this for another font style, I can't. Does anyone know what the steps are to see this?
Thank you!
RE: gimp Tools text select text and hover to see name of the font when not installed on s - rich2005 - 04-14-2023
This is one of Ofnuts invaluable plugins, a python script, from https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-tools/files/scripts/ text-info-0.1.py dated 2014-08-26
For a Gimp .xcf file some text information is stored with the file.
Once the plugin is installed, it is a right click in the font layer, bottom of the menu is a Show text information.. Click on that and it gives the font as (all-in-one-screenshot):
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Then up to you to find the font, put it into your Gimp fonts folder and open the file again.