Common dingbats don't show in GIMP

Oregonian · **Posted:** Sun Sep 30, 2012 2:10 pm **(#1)**

GIMP Version: 2.8.2
Operating System: Linux
OS Version: Fedora 17
GIMP Experience: Intermediate Level

Wingdings, Webdings and Standard Symbols fonts show as alphabetic letters instead of dingbats in GIMP. They show as symbol fonts in LibreOffice Writer so I don't think it's the OS. Does anyone else have this problem?

They worked fine in v2.6; also, I have other dingbat fonts that show just fine.

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

I just tried some on the Farm dings, they all go in the way they should but when I hi-lite and try to enlarge them, the hi-lite won't hold. this is very strange

Edit: Just tried Armada Pirata Medium and it is fine.

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

didnt seem to be a problem with these

Oregonian · **Posted:** Sun Sep 30, 2012 3:21 pm **(#4)**

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?

alc59 · **Posted:** Sun Sep 30, 2012 3:36 pm **(#5)**

Not showing for me either
win7 2.8.2
here are some wingding brushes

Oregonian · **Posted:** Sun Sep 30, 2012 3:38 pm **(#6)**

Alc, do they show in MS Word? Do you have MS Word? The reason I'm asking is that they do show in LibreOffice Writer which is kind of a Linux equivalent to MS Word.

Thanks for the link to the brushes. Grabbed them. :mrgreen:

Gms9810 · **Posted:** Sun Sep 30, 2012 3:45 pm **(#7)**

They only show up as letters for me too

alc59 · **Posted:** Sun Sep 30, 2012 3:47 pm **(#8)**

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

Oregonian · **Posted:** Sun Sep 30, 2012 3:52 pm **(#9)**

Apparently it's something in GIMP then that prevents them from working. I don't understand why they don't work in v2.8 and they did in v2.6.

GnuTux · **Posted:** Sun Sep 30, 2012 3:53 pm **(#10)**

They aren't working for me either. Here is what they look like in the font viewer..

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

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:** 12819

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?