{"id":51,"date":"2005-04-02T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-03T00:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2005-04-02T19:46:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-03T00:46:00","slug":"adding-ttf-fonts-to-the-x-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Adding TTF fonts to the X Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s project is to create a mock Guinness Stout label for a gluten-free stout I brewed for a friend. I soaked a label off a bottle, scanned it and brought up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\">GIMP<\/a> to change &#8220;Guinness&#8221; to &#8220;Glutenless&#8221;. There wasn&#8217;t a font on my system that looked close enough to the original, so I went looking for one on the web. I found a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grsites.com\/modperl\/fontview.cgi?dir=g&amp;fn=GUINNESS\">Guinness font<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/dan.hersam.com\/archives\/2003\/04\/18\/lovely-linux-fonts\">installed it<\/a> on RedHat 9.<\/p>\n<p>The editing consisted of copying a region of the yellow background and pasting it over the word Guinness.  Then I created a new layer and put the word Glutenless on it with the new font.  I used the &#8220;Rotation, Scaling, Shearing, Perspective&#8221; tool to scale the text to the right size.  After a sample print, I saved it to TIFF.  The original image is 1572&#215;1920 at 600dpi.  To save paper, I ran <code>convert -size 4716x5760 tile:glutenless-stout-label.tif glutenless-stout-page.tif<\/code> to make a printable sheet of nine labels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s project is to create a mock Guinness Stout label for a gluten-free stout I brewed for a friend. I soaked a label off a bottle, scanned it and brought up GIMP to change &#8220;Guinness&#8221; to &#8220;Glutenless&#8221;. There wasn&#8217;t a font on my system that looked close enough to the original, so I went looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}