GIMP and maps

[Gandalf Parker]

OK I finally ironed out my problems with GIMP2. This is my post from the comp.graphics.apps.gimp newsgroup.

> Thank you for following up on this. I ran into these same problem,
> but your idea did not work for me as I didn't have profont for some
> reason.

Yep me too so Ive been waiting for a different sugestion.

> What I did do was rename ".fonts.Cache-1" Started gimp and it
> worked... It also rebuilt ".fonts.Cache-1" when it started..

Sounded good. I was hopeful. But not yet.

I did finally see the error window stick around long enugh to read it. It
said.......
> >(gimp-1.3.exe:1542): Glib-CRITICAL **:file gconvert.c: line 498
> >(g_convert): assertion 'str != NULL' failed
and an error report which wanted to be sent to microsoft about msvcrt.dll
(I have WinXP). I googled extensively for both in web and newsGroups. I
found them many times in relation to many programs, but no real answers. So
I will include them in this post to allow others to find this.

By now I was determined so here is what I did. I opened a window to C:
\windows\fonts. Then I created a c:\temp directory and opened a window to
that. I sized both windows so that I could see them side by side. Now I
went thru the fonts one at a time double-clicking them one at a time which
brought them up in "Windows Font Viewer". I had no idea what I was looking
for but most of the displays looked pretty much the same. Any that looked
different I dragged it over to the temp window then tried to open GIMP.

Finally, after moving a file called BBCWIN.FON gimp came up. I closed it
and moved back all the fonts but that Last one, then opened gimp again.
Then, just to be sure, I deleted the C:\Documents and Settings\Gandalf
\.fonts.Cache-1 file and opened gimp again which took longer while it
rebuilt the fonts file. YAY! I HAVE GIMP 2.0!

Thank you everyone here for the various hints, tips, bits and pieces. Feel
free to put these steps on some web page somewhere so it will web-google
for people also.

Gandalf Parker
-- I have often spent way too much money
because I GNU too little on a subject