Re: [Gimp-user] how to write vertical text

2003-07-20 Thread Tom Williams
John Culleton wrote: On Friday 18 July 2003 12:17, charkee berekeke wrote: fellow gimp users, Can anyone teach me how to write text vertically ( top to bottom ) ? TIA charkee do you mean text rotated 90 degrees? Or do you mean text like T H I S The solution

Re: [Gimp-user] how to write vertical text

2003-07-20 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, charkee berekeke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That piece on writing text on a curve is really interesting =). I would still like to know if gimp can write vertical text, like T H I S It cannot do this. At least not without major hassle like moving the glyphs around manually.

Re: [Gimp-user] how to write vertical text

2003-07-20 Thread Tom Williams
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, charkee berekeke [EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That piece on writing text on a curve is really > interesting =). I would still like to know if gimp can > > write vertical text, like > T > H > I > S It cannot do this. At least not without major hassle like moving the glyphs

[Gimp-user] How to convert a bunch of files from one format to theother

2003-07-20 Thread Phillip Bruce
Hi, I have a bunch of bmp images that I want to convert to jpeg format. How can I do this without having to go thru each image at a time? I'm running gimp on a unix platform. -- *** Phillip B. Bruce

Re: [Gimp-user] How to convert a bunch of files from one format tothe other

2003-07-20 Thread Harish Narayanan
Hi, You could use convert from the ImageMagick suite and a small bash script like: #!/bin/bash for image in *.bmp; do target=`echo $image | sed s/.bmp/.jpg/` convert $image $target done Or something similar. Harish Phillip Bruce wrote: Hi, I have a bunch of bmp images that I want to

Re: [Gimp-user] how to write vertical text

2003-07-20 Thread Harish Narayanan
Tom Williams wrote: While, we're on the topic of text, are there any tutorials on making text along an arc? The curvebend filter _almost_ does what I want but not quite. Thanks... Peace... Tom ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Gimp-user] Crop and register marks

2003-07-20 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
I am working on a python-fu script to add crop and register printing marks to the GIMP images. Not pratical - it have to be run manually before printing, and the marks have to be cropped out if one is going to scale the image further afterwards (last the cropmarks get out of proportion).