Re: Rendering text with gimp_perl and gimp_text

[Marc Lehmann]

On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 09:20:35PM +0100, Jens Lautenbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> AFAIUTP, it isn't possible for a given text layer to tell where the baseline
> is. So it isn't possible for different text layers to line up.

Hm..... I see it now...

> The ascent and descent are stupidly reported for the font, not the
> given string.

Ok, then I'd say this is a very bad bug ;) I'd suggest fixing it by not
removing any space from the text layer / the tetx string returned by
gimp_text.
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