>I'm afraid I have minimal knowledge of GIMP; I only use it to design >simple covers for the ebooks I design for the free ebook library at >www.mobileread.com. > >The ebook I'm about to start working on is 'The Adventures of >Elizabeth >in Rügen'. As you can see the u in Rügen has an umlaut, but I can't >work >out how to produce that with GIMP. The text is white on a black >background, so I can't make an image of the text and use that. > >Can anyone tell me how to put diacritics in text?
I use linux, and compose key works very well, Windows has a ctrl-key + numberpad equivalent. However not many Windows users these days use that, so the alternative. Look for the windows character map and copy/paste into Wordpad screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/pB9E7vl.jpg Then when finished copy the whole of the text. In Gimp Text tool options enable "Use Editor" and paste the text in screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/K0Mq3tl.jpg -- rich2005 (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: [email protected] List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
