Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.10 and Streetwear font (glyphs)

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 7:22 PM Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-03-11 at 09:59 +0100, vincents wrote:
> > I'm using Gimp 2.10.14 under Ubuntu and I'm trying to use the
> > Streewear font
> > (https://www.dafontfree.io/streetwear-font-free/) for a creation but
> > I can't access some glyphs.
>
> GIMP does not have a glyphs palette i’m afraid, and also it can only
> use glyphs that are mapped to characters. The Streetware font has
> access to the glphs at the end via the OpenType alternate glyphs
> mechanism, but GIMP doesn't support OpenType features and alternates.

Oh, I'll be damned, you are completely right, and I messed up. They
are referenced via the aalt table. Yes, not much we can do in GIMP
right now.

Alex