Re: [Gimp-user] kerning

2004-09-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Aewyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any way to set letter's kerning in gimp? If you are refering to letter spacing or tracking, here's the relevant bug report: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125483 Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing

Re: [Gimp-user] kerning

2004-09-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Aewyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but not really. (kerning means the different space needed between A - V, and V - V; it depends on the used font, but fonts sometimes (always) have erroneus kernings) GIMP uses the kerning tables that come with the fonts. If they are incorrect, I'd say

Re: [Gimp-user] kerning

2004-09-07 Thread Simon Budig
Sven Neumann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What GIMP is going to provide (one day) is ways to adjust letter spacing. You can then fix the kerning whereever you think it is wrong. We are however not going to write that info back to the font. Well, Kerning (as in fix up this pair of letters) would

Re: [Gimp-user] kerning

2004-09-07 Thread Aewyn
no no no, gimp has no any job with editing fonts, nor writing back any info. But manual kerning is gimp's lesson. As it works in coreldraw, inkscape or other tool. Again: designer's work is making documents with correct kerning pairs, so manual kerning is the job of designer's tool (here it is

Re: [Gimp-user] kerning

2004-09-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Aewyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As it works in coreldraw, inkscape or other tool. Again: designer's work is making documents with correct kerning pairs, so manual kerning is the job of designer's tool (here it is gimp). We don't disagree at all except that I think that you are using

Re: [Gimp-user] kerning

2004-09-07 Thread Jakub Steiner
On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 17:01 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: Editing that text file is not going to be any easier or faster than editing the font using the tool I showed you. GIMP is not going to provide ways to fix your fonts since there are tools available for this job and GIMP is not a font

[Gimp-user] Kerning for text tool

2003-11-20 Thread Eric Pierce
Will 'kerning' ever be implemented for the text tool? Would it be ok to do a 'feature request' for this in bugzilla if it's not currently being considered? Thanks, Eric Pierce ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Gimp-user] Kerning for text tool

2003-11-20 Thread David Neary
Hi Eric, Eric Pierce wrote: Will 'kerning' ever be implemented for the text tool? There is a feature request for this open in Bugzilla. As far as I know, this is not (yet) supported in pango (which we use to layout text), and until it is, implementing it in the GIMP would be difficult. This is