Re: [Gimp-user] script-fu text

[Mark Andrachek, Jr.]

>
> I seem unable to specify the font_file correctly to be able to call it in
> non-interactive mode though. The font file name is actually
> "wmb_.pfm".  I've tried that, with and without the full path
> ("c:\Windows\fonts\wmb_.pfm"), and I've tried the font name by itself
> ("Myriad Bold"). I am able to select the font correctly in interactive
> mode.
>
> Any hints here?

Well, I figured this one out on my own too.  In my user directory was a
dotfile (fonts-cache or something, not sitting in front of it right now)
containing the list of font files and their properties.  Using the exact
text specified there for the font-file and it works. Changing the case of
a single letter, and it breaks. Just a unix/win32 difference.

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Re: [Gimp-user] script-fu text

[Mark Andrachek, Jr.]

Ok, turns out, I need to do both hinting and kerning (the letter spacing
was off too).  So, some searching found that I need to use
plug-in-freetype, which takes care of all of this, and produces *perfect*
text for me, at least in interactive mode.

I seem unable to specify the font_file correctly to be able to call it in
non-interactive mode though. The font file name is actually
"wmb_.pfm".  I've tried that, with and without the full path
("c:\Windows\fonts\wmb_.pfm"), and I've tried the font name by itself
("Myriad Bold"). I am able to select the font correctly in interactive
mode.

Any hints here?

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[Gimp-user] script-fu text

[Mark Andrachek, Jr.]

I've got some script's I'm porting over from 1.2 to 2.0. (I'm using the
windows version, if it makes a difference.)

There have been some changes, but I've gotten the scripts working again.

I had to add an alpha channel to my layers so I could raise/lower them,
add gimp-edit-fill after gimp-edit-clear because of the alpha layer. I
also had to change how I created my text layers, using gimp-text-fontname
instead of gimp-text:

(tLayer (car (gimp-text myImage -1 0 0 inText -1 TRUE 110 1 "*" "Myriad
Roman" "bold" "roman" "normal" "*" "*" "*")))

Changed to:
(tLayer (car (gimp-text-fontname myImage -1 0 0 inText -1 TRUE 13 1
"Myriad Bold")))

Calling it is easier (no foundry or anything to remember), and the text is
close, but not close enough.

I can actually get it right if I disable Hinting in the text tool options
if I manually create the image, but there doesn't appear to be any way to
control the hinting via script-fu. Is there some way I can set it to
disabled globally so it will be disabled in script-fu too?

I have to create a *lot* of these images, so help would be much appreciated!

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