Re: [Gimp-developer] text tool for 2.6 (or any later versions)

2007-11-08 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, since you seem to be interested in the text tool and how to improve it, here are some small steps that I would suggest you (or anyone else) starts with: Finish work on the text box. The text tool was always supposed to allow the user to create a rectangular text box so that the text flows i

Re: [Gimp-developer] text tool for 2.6 (or any later versions)

2007-11-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 17:29 +0100, Marcus Heese wrote: > First of all (although perhaps the least important), it would be good to > have a well-designed font selection dialog, that allows a quick > selection of a font even when you have a lot of fonts installed and > you're perhaps searching

Re: [Gimp-developer] text tool for 2.6 (or any later versions)

2007-11-07 Thread Marcus Heese
Alexandre Prokoudine schrieb: > On Nov 7, 2007 7:29 PM, Marcus Heese wrote: > >> Ok, but now more to the Western font problems. The so-called "tracking" >> is implemented with the letter-spacing mechanism. > > This is incorrect. Kerning adjusts kern pairs, Yup... that's right! > tracking adju

Re: [Gimp-developer] text tool for 2.6 (or any later versions)

2007-11-07 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Nov 7, 2007 7:29 PM, Marcus Heese wrote: > Ok, but now more to the Western font problems. The so-called "tracking" > is implemented with the letter-spacing mechanism. This is incorrect. Kerning adjusts kern pairs, tracking adjusts space between words. Letter spacing in GIMP is a simple solutio

[Gimp-developer] text tool for 2.6 (or any later versions)

2007-11-07 Thread Marcus Heese
Hi, I've made a little research about typography in the last week because everybody on the list was talking about this "this time we get it right"-thing. And here are the problems I see and some suggestions to it: First of all (although perhaps the least important), it would be good to have a w

Re: [Gimp-developer] Text tool

2002-03-25 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A few notes, maybe known, maybe not: your notes are obviously about the current developers version. For production use, you really want to use gimp-1.2.3. > a) Is there a way to put use text other than "gimp" with the text tool > yet? :) no, not y

[Gimp-developer] Text tool

2002-03-24 Thread David Ford
A few notes, maybe known, maybe not: a) Is there a way to put use text other than "gimp" with the text tool yet? :) b) xtns->script-fu->web page->alien glow->arrow goes into a tight loop sucking cpu c) file->save as->png is pretty hit and miss with success, half the time you need to "Ignore"