hmobius Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Hi, Just installed Paint.net 3.5 on Win7 Professional 32bit. Like it very much but I am unable to select the font variants of several open type fonts I've also installed on the system which Win7's own Paint program does let me select (see screenshots for comparison - Selecting the stag font and variants). I'm certain I could do this in v3.36 so I hope this is just part of the font handling improvements mentioned in the forum, but thought I would log it just in case it's a bug. Thanks, Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 This isn't a bug. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Also, I should mention that using the Bold and Italic buttons will automatically pick the appropriate "style" (variant) of a font. If you have "Arial" and "Arial Italic" for instance, enabling italics won't render a fake italicized "Arial" but will actually use "Arial Italic". Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmobius Posted October 6, 2009 Author Share Posted October 6, 2009 Thanks for the reply Rick. So how do I select Stag-SemiBold and Stag-Black then? These are the fonts I had to use and as far as I could see, there was no way to use them. The fonts are installed as shown in the screenshots.... Thanks, Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 This won't be possible for v3.5, but let me ask my DirectWrite guy to see what can be done for the next release. Part of the reason this wasn't done for v3.5 was just time constraints. What you want requires either a change to the way the font families are listed to you, or the addition of another drop down to let you choose the variant. Neither one of those made the schedule. For now you can launch Paint.NET with the /disableDirectWrite command-line parameter. This will force Paint.NET to use GDI instead of DirectWrite. The benefit will be that you'll see the "complete" list of fonts, but the drawbacks will be performance and quality. (I put "complete" in quotes up there because both lists are complete, just with respect to different organizational schemes.) Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 Also, is it possible for you to provide me with a download link for the Stag fonts? Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frontcannon Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 These should be the ones you're looking for, they are not free, though! (50$ per type weights) Quote Night Vision Text Effect Tutorial Gallery reddit.com/r/futurebeats | My Mixcloud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmobius Posted October 8, 2009 Author Share Posted October 8, 2009 These should be the ones you're looking for, they are not free, though! (50$ per type weights) Yup those are the ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Moved to Troubleshooting Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 As an update to this, I have a fix ready for v3.5.2. Paint.NET v3.5.2 will now use GDI to get the list of fonts. This will give it the "expanded" list of names, e.g. Arial, Arial Narrow, Arial Black. It will then ask DirectWrite to create the font, and if that fails it will roundtrip the font through CreateFontFromLOGFONT(). This will then give it the correct Family Name + Weight/Style/Stretch that DirectWrite expects. In other words, it will convert "Arial Narrow" to "Arial" + Stretch=Narrow. This will all happen behind-the-scenes, so you won't have to worry about any of this. Also, bitmap fonts such as Terminal, System, and Courier will now be available as well. DirectWrite doesn't handle these types of fonts, but GDI does. So, Paint.NET will now detect DW's refusal and use GDI as a fallback. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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