Ale's right about text tools! As a cartoonist, I draw all my own text, so text tools have been a pretty low priority for me, but I am working on them. I grudgingly accept that text tools are useful things to have!
Currently, there's a kind of caption in a box text tool, and a very buggy text on path (including glyph size based on variable width of the path), though I couldn't honestly say the text tools are quite stable yet! I'm still trying to figure out the best way to work with the combination of harfbuzz-freetype-cairo. I do tend to prefer working on tools and approaches that are perhaps a bit idiosyncratic, and yes, any coders and testers welcome! Laidout is a free time project of mine, but I at least try to address bugs and feature requests people tell me about, having more hands around would certainly speed development! In terms of Scribus, I do have an import/exporter for sla files callable from within Scribus, that can perform imposition (such as into booklets), and return a new sla, mostly preserving the original text and styles (linux only at the moment). I need to test against current Scribus files, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biLrfyHMXzU -Tom On 06/02/2017 09:45 AM, ale rimoldi wrote: > hi fahad > >> Does it support RTL languages? > last time i've had a look at laidout, it did not support languages... > > but the latest news on the laidout website says that tom is debugging > the text tool... so, it might be usable now! : - ) > > but you know, it's laidout! > before going for the serious long term goals: > > "The loooong term goal for adequacy is TeX like line breaking in > arbitrarily shaped areas, capable of right to left, left to right and > vertical text, as well as OpenType features." > > http://www.laidout.org/screenshots/img-text-tool-start-0.095.1.html > > it had to support multi color fonts! > > http://www.laidout.org/screenshots/img-colorfonts-0.095.1-m.html > > if you want to contribute to laidout's code i'm pretty sure that tom > will be delighted to welcome you! > > on the other side you will be part of one of the coolest and most > amazing programs you have ever seen! :-) > > ciao > a.l.e >
