On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Michael J. Hammel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 19:49 -0600, Ben Walker wrote: > > You consider a proper text tool in the core feature-creep? > > In a raster image editor, yes.
Personally I disagree - I'm eagerly awaiting the GSoC update to the text tool, and I hope it results in an improvement in 2.8. I certainly use workarounds like styling text in other (usually vector) programs and rasterizing it in GIMP - however, I do consider them to be workarounds as opposed to solutions. I agree that some type of third-party type-styling tool would be optimal (anyone ever use TypeStyler on old-world mac?), but I just don't see anything materializing soon. In lieu of that, a more robust type handling in GIMP would be much appreciated. Even simple things like rotating text and still being able to edit the content would make my life a lot simpler. As a freelancer, I use GIMP as a design tool for a number of reasons. The first is that I enjoy using it more than the Other Program. The Python interface is another. FOSS is another important reason. The fact that I run linux as my primary OS helps too :) And I do love GIMP - but all of that aside, in the graphic design world text is now just as integral to a production image as a photograph and should be treated accordingly. Whether or not this is accomplished through a port of the text tool to cairo/pango or the addition of a plugin is up to the (most highly respected) developers, but I think enough of us are wishing for it to make it happen. GD work (in my experience) is almost always verging on a train wreck - an improvement in GIMP's text tool would certainly help me keep it on the rails :) Chris _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
