I'm using The Gimp to try to recreate some images containing only text for a web site that I maintain for my company. The site was originally created by a web design company using Dreamweaver and some other tools. Unfortunately all I could get out of them regarding the fonts used in the images is that they used Univers Condensed (47,57,67) fonts from Adobe. I've purchased the fonts, and have managed to recreate some of the images to a point that's visually acceptable. Now I'm stuck on a particular image.
The problem is that the look of the font within The Gimp is similar but not the same as what is in the original image. The main problem is that the lower case letters are about half the size of the upper case letters, whereas in the original image they are about 2 thirds of the upper case letters. I've played around with turning hinting on and off, and forcing the auto-hinter, but not much luck, as expected. I thought a font was a font was a font. Well, as long as you're working with the same font. Am I not right? Is it possible that the font is being rendered differently on my system compared to the original designers'? Any suggestions on what I could do? I need to be able to recreate these images so that I can provide a translation of the site. Technical details: OS: Linux - Fedora Core 4 gimp: 2.2.12 freetype: 2.1.9 fontconfig: 2.2.3 xorg-x11: 6.8.2 TIA. Owen _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
