* Bryan Tyson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021208 19:29]: > I was wondering if you could explain in more detail how you use OOo Draw > to create text which you then use in Gimp.
Sure. Just create anything you like with text in OOo Draw. Make it larger than it will need to be, and then export it as a .png file, making sure to export the selected objects only. Then open the text in The GIMP and you can use it in many ways. The big advantage is that whatever work you do on it in Draw can be saved and if you make a mistake or need to change the text, you can easily edit the text in Draw. Right now, this is a necessary step, because we are currently using Linux Terminal Server Project without using a font server. So The GIMP does not have access to TrueType fonts, at least from the LTSP workstations. However, since OOo has its own built-in font renderer, it can be used to generate the text. It would be nice if the same program could do both vector and bitmap graphics, but I would rather juggle two programs than have one combined program that is not as powerful. For a quick example of text created in Draw being used then in The GIMP, check out the page titles at http://linux.bz/ -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com & linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML
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