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Hello everybody,
I've spent some time thinking about this ticket:
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3585
TurtleArt developer(s) have decided to use gif images that represent different
shapes with text inside. What we need is a helper script that will
I'm a bit rusty, but you can use the Gimp to do this, using Scheme
scripts. I did have a bit of trouble with positioning on some RTL
scripts as the Gimp is using fairly antiquated text rendering
internally, but it is generally OK.
-walter
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Alexander Todorov
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Walter Bender wrote:
I'm a bit rusty, but you can use the Gimp to do this, using Scheme
scripts. I did have a bit of trouble with positioning on some RTL
scripts as the Gimp is using fairly antiquated text rendering
internally, but it is
As I recall (it was a while ago) ImageMagic had lots of issues with
non-Latin scripts. But it would be an easier route than the Gimp.
-walter
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Alexander Todorov
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Walter Bender wrote:
Hmmm... I wonder if just some scripts to take the text and use cairo to
draw it (via inserting the text into SVG files at the right places),
might be a way to completely automate the generation of the images that
are used.
Alternatively, using Cairo (maybe using pango, if we need to support RTL
