Gimp Fonts

For the record, I largely don't know what the heck I'm talking about here, but if GIMP uses the pango library, then it understands truetype fonts just fine – it's opentype fonts (.otf) that throw it a curve. I ran into this issue when I first picked up inkscape. I have a $350 collection of typefaces that inkscape refused to acknowledge because pango has (or had; I don't know if this issue has been resolved) problems with typ1 headers. I would use links to back this up, but I'm too lazy to substantiate my claims (and besides, its a boring topic that noone but me is interested in, and I only care because I'm a type nut).