Common dingbats don't show in GIMP

Alec Burgess · **Joined:** May 09, 2012 **Posts:** 28

Oregonian wrote:

I'm talking about just the common ones like Wingdings, Webdings and the Standard Symbol dingbats. Other ones such as you showed Akky work fine for me too.

Does anyone have one of the three I mentioned in their fonts?

Using Photocomix 2.8.2 Gimp-NoExtra win32 I'm seeing the same thing:
I have 3 fonts identified as Symbol, Webdings and Wingdings, Windings 2 and Wingings 3.

If I change font from something else to one of the above it changes to some standard alpha font (not sure which one) instead of showing the results in the symbol font.

Wordpad.exe (as a simple example) correctly shows whichever of the symbol/webdings/windings fonts I've selected.

Retrying with GIMP 2.6 (2.6.8 actually) the special symbol fonts work as expected.

Looks like something that s/b posted to bugzilla.

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

ok common wingdings here

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

What version of Gimp are you using akky?

Oregonian · **Posted:** Sun Sep 30, 2012 3:58 pm **(#14)**

GnuTux wrote:

They aren't working for me either.

Strangely enough, I converted them to OTF (which works), then back to TTF, and they work fine now.

That's cool. A must have bookmark on that converter. I left the font as otf and it works fine.

2-ton · **Posted:** Sun Sep 30, 2012 5:22 pm **(#15)**

Wingdings and webdings on't work for me with McGimp 2.8. Neither do any of the foreign fonts.

Gms9810 · **Posted:** Sun Sep 30, 2012 5:48 pm **(#16)**

alc59 wrote:

Only have wordpad and they show there, i also use libre office

Well they work fine for me on everything EXCEPT gimp, I'll amend my previous comment.

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

I'm using the mac 2.8.2 of parthas build

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

2-ton wrote:

Wingdings and webdings on't work for me with McGimp 2.8. Neither do any of the foreign fonts.

so far I havent had a problem with them

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12521

I just see regular abc characters for wingdings and webdings. Looks like a bug needs to be submitted to Bugzilla; bet you someone already has done so. If not, I will.

edit:

Already submitted: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675781

GnuTux · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2012 12:44 am **(#20)**

It appears that it's not just GIMP. I couldn't view the webdings font in the Linux font viewer until I converted it to OTF. I then converted it from OTF to TTF and I could view it using the Linux font viewer.

Before...

After..

Strange, huh?

Odinbc · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2012 2:31 am **(#21)**

Strange stuff. I can't get the same wingdings or webdings in Gimp 2.8x, Vista either.

gerard82 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2012 8:22 am **(#22)**

I tried *bats in my Gimp 2.8.
The result is the following:
Regularly installed (adobe) dingbats just gave latin characters.
Regularly installed webdings (part of "corefonts") worked fine.
With regularly installed I mean from Gentoo repository.
I then searched dafont for dingbats and installed "Lomonesia-dingbats.
Works fine.
I did some more research and noticed that the two 'bats that work are ttf files.
Adobe dingbats comes as a .gz file.
When I gunzip it I noticed that it has regular ~ascii code + 3 or 4 byte (UTF8?) code that contains the pictures.
I don't have a copy of Gimp-2.6 anymore so couldn't try that.

So far I've never used dingbats or similar but I was just curious.
Gerard.

gerard82 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2012 1:19 pm **(#23)**

I found I have a copy of Gimp-2.6.after all.
Exactly the same behaviour as 2.8 as far as dingbats/webdings is concerned.
Gerard.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Good find Gerard, I would never have known cuz I never use them.

gerard82 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2012 2:28 pm **(#25)**

Thanks molly,me neither.
But I like to tinker and find out things.
Gerard.

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