Some short notes about my talk on GIMP 2.2+ and the feedback that
I got during and after the presentation:
- Several people liked the improved drag-and-drop support and it
looks like some of them were not aware of the option to drag
images as new layers inside an existing image.
- They also s
Hi,
RaphaÃl Quinet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> - One guy asked about better support for typesetting and said
> that the GIMP was unusable for any serious work if it did not
> support text orientation and letter spacing. He insisted
> very much on that. Thanks to Pippin for telling him t
Hi,
Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am sorry but last I checked, Pango didn't have support for letter
> spacing yet.
Hmm, apparently that was a wrong assumption. It looks like Owen
sneaked this feature into Pango without adding any note whatsoever to
bug #125483. Enabling it in GIMP
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Sven Neumann wrote:
> Pango didn't have support for letter spacing yet nor does it support
> vertical text.
The release notes for pango 1.5 includes this which I hope should help
with the vertical text (or any angle):
* Add support for rotated rendering to the FT2 backend
Hi,
Dennis Bjorklund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Pango didn't have support for letter spacing yet nor does it support
>> vertical text.
>
> The release notes for pango 1.5 includes this which I hope should
> help with the vertical text (or any angle):
>
> * Add support for rotated rendering
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Sven Neumann wrote:
> transform routines). Vertical text however has the glyphs all upright
> but is rendered from top to bottom (like chinese).
Isn't that just normal (centered) text with newlines between each
character?
--
/Dennis Björklund
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Hi,
Dennis Bjorklund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> transform routines). Vertical text however has the glyphs all upright
>> but is rendered from top to bottom (like chinese).
>
> Isn't that just normal (centered) text with newlines between each
> character?
No, that would give you a line height
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 20:03, Raphaël Quinet wrote:
> - I got some expected questions about the user interface and
> these turned into a 10 minutes debate between some who would
> like to see some kind of MDI support (like Photoshop and other
> programs) and others who prefer the current in
]> ...to see some kind of MDI support...
]I'd like to...
Could it be possible to dynamically turn this feature on and off? Usually MDI
gets in the way, but sometimes (editing multiple sessions, for example) it
would be helpful to have it for just a moment and turn it back off afterwards.
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