Re: [Gimp-user] Text Editing Problems

2011-03-26 Thread Snapafun
When working with GIMP you can save your work in any file format you choose BUT your current work book will remain as xcf capable until you close it. So before you close GIMP- SAVE your work as a xcf also! The rest is as Owen said - use layers, etc.

[Gimp-user] Text Editing Problems

2011-03-20 Thread Andrew Hall
I am using Gimp version 2.6.11 under Mac OS X version 10.4.11. I am having a problem that is driving me to distraction: When I close a file and open it again, it is impossible to edit the text. Please note that before saving the file, I have no problems editing the text--so I have already

Re: [Gimp-user] Text Editing Problems

2011-03-20 Thread Owen
I am using Gimp version 2.6.11 under Mac OS X version 10.4.11. I am having a problem that is driving me to distraction: When I close a file and open it again, it is impossible to edit the text. Please note that before saving the file, I have no problems editing the text--so I have already

[Gimp-user] Text Won't Enlarge Past 30 PX

2011-02-27 Thread Andrew Hall
I am a new Gimp user and have just started working on my first project with this application. Unfortunately, I ran into a roadblock almost immediately. I am unable to make text any larger than 30 PX. I can enter larger sizes than this in the Text Tool window, but any value greater than 30

Re: [Gimp-user] Text Won't Enlarge Past 30 PX

2011-02-27 Thread Burnie West
On 02/27/2011 08:56 AM, Andrew Hall wrote: I am a new Gimp user and have just started working on my first project with this application. Unfortunately, I ran into a roadblock almost immediately. I am unable to make text any larger than 30 PX. I can enter larger sizes than this in the Text Tool

Re: [Gimp-user] Text Won't Enlarge Past 30 PX

2011-02-27 Thread Leonard Evens
On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 08:56 -0800, Andrew Hall wrote: I am a new Gimp user and have just started working on my first project with this application. Unfortunately, I ran into a roadblock almost immediately. I am unable to make text any larger than 30 PX. I can enter larger sizes than this

[Gimp-user] Text hinting problem on windows 7

2011-02-21 Thread noir-soleil
Hello. I'm using the latest stable version of GIMP on windows 7. The hinting using the instructions from font is not working, only auto-hinting works (but the results looks ugly). What may be the problem? -- noir-soleil (via gimpusers.com) ___

Re: [Gimp-user] Text in animated gif

2011-01-22 Thread Andreas Waechter
I've made a simple animated gif and what I wanted to do was have a word appear as the last frame. But the text box remains blank, though the text is black and the gif is red. Is there a way I can add text? What am I doing wrong? Or what do I need to do? A wild guess: The image is in indexed

[Gimp-user] Text in animated gif

2011-01-20 Thread Pat Brown
I've made a simple animated gif and what I wanted to do was have a word appear as the last frame. But the text box remains blank, though the text is black and the gif is red. Is there a way I can add text? What am I doing wrong? Or what do I need to do? Pat Brown http://pabrown.com/ A figure who

[Gimp-user] text processing script

2010-11-13 Thread Damien
Hello the list ! I am totally new to the Gimp and would need to write a script that does the following: 1) generate text strings (with a specified font) using all consonants (except for X, W, Y and Z) that look like this: - B -XBXXX

Re: [Gimp-user] text processing script

2010-11-13 Thread Ofnuts
On 11/13/2010 11:12 AM, Damien wrote: Hello the list ! I am totally new to the Gimp and would need to write a script that does the following: There are two ways to script Gimp: Scheme (a LISP derivative) that is built-in, and Python that may be part of your install (and can be otherwise

[Gimp-user] text on circle-path, change direction

2010-08-17 Thread martinz
martinz wrote: How can I make the letters of the text point to the middle of the circle/path?? Change the sign of the fill angle to change the direction the letters will appear around the circle as well as whether they point towards the center of the circle or away from the center. hi kevin!

Re: [Gimp-user] text on circle-path, change direction

2010-08-17 Thread Kevin Cozens
martinz wrote: but I cant find this fill angle control (I am pretty new to gimp). please give me a quick advise. I have the path and then I type in a text. In the text menu I can change -font, -size, -orientation (left, right, block, center) - hinting, auto, ... - distance bitween

[Gimp-user] text on circle-path, change direction

2010-08-17 Thread martinz
martinz wrote: but I cant find this fill angle control (I am pretty new to gimp). please give me a quick advise. I have the path and then I type in a text. In the text menu I can change -font, -size, -orientation (left, right, block, center) - hinting, auto, ... - distance bitween

[Gimp-user] text on circle-path, change direction

2010-08-16 Thread martinz
hi @ all! I have a little question about text on a path. If I make a circle and put a text on its path, then the head of the letters will point outside the circles center. How can I make the letters of the text point to the middle of the circle/path?? thx for help! best regards, martin --

Re: [Gimp-user] text on circle-path, change direction

2010-08-16 Thread Kevin Cozens
martinz wrote: How can I make the letters of the text point to the middle of the circle/path?? Change the sign of the fill angle to change the direction the letters will appear around the circle as well as whether they point towards the center of the circle or away from the center.

[Gimp-user] Text to Path.,..add color

2010-06-08 Thread Mark
I have found the simple answer and I post it for anyone that might, like myself, have over looked the obvious. Ignore the Tool Box and click Select and in the Drop Menu choose From Path. Choose the color, select the fill tool and click once on the text, you'll see the ants marching when the

Re: [Gimp-user] Text tool options menu, where is it?

2010-03-12 Thread Akkana Peck
Gene Heskett writes: Greetings; My text font size is microscopic, and the help shows an option menu that lets me adjust that, but I'll be a monkey's uncle if I can find it. Anybody know where it wandered off to in gimp-2.6.6 as supplied with Fedora 10? You should have a text size button

Re: [Gimp-user] Text tool options menu, where is it?

2010-03-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 March 2010, Akkana Peck wrote: Gene Heskett writes: Greetings; My text font size is microscopic, and the help shows an option menu that lets me adjust that, but I'll be a monkey's uncle if I can find it. Anybody know where it wandered off to in gimp-2.6.6 as supplied with

[Gimp-user] Text tool options menu, where is it?

2010-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; My text font size is microscopic, and the help shows an option menu that lets me adjust that, but I'll be a monkey's uncle if I can find it. Anybody know where it wandered off to in gimp-2.6.6 as supplied with Fedora 10? Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in

[Gimp-user] Text looks rough

2010-01-26 Thread RSA
When I make a web banner that is only text it looks great in GIMP and in my web page maker. When I put it up on the web the text looks rough like someone cut it out with a jig saw. I use the banner in JPG format or GIF format and the results are the same. Any ideas how to fix it?

Re: [Gimp-user] Text looks rough

2010-01-26 Thread John Mills
RSA - On esuggestion: Be sure you create the banner and its text at a high enough image resolution. It may be rendered as fuzzy or jagged if the text's bit-image is enlarged substantially for printing or viewing (in contrast to vector-based graphics). I had this problem when I started out.

Re: [Gimp-user] Text looks rough

2010-01-26 Thread RSA
Thanks. I thought there was some relationship between px size and final result but figured I was doing something wrong. On 10-01-26 09:54 AM, John Mills wrote: RSA - On esuggestion: Be sure you create the banner and its text at a high enough image resolution. It may be rendered as

Re: [Gimp-user] Text looks rough

2010-01-26 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Tuesday 26 January 2010 15:35:45 RSA wrote: When I make a web banner that is only text it looks great in GIMP and in my web page maker. When I put it up on the web the text looks rough like someone cut it out with a jig saw. I use the banner in JPG format or GIF format and the results

Re: [Gimp-user] Text looks rough

2010-01-26 Thread bigskypa
On 01/26/2010 01:07 PM, Daniel Hornung wrote: On Tuesday 26 January 2010 15:35:45 RSA wrote: When I make a web banner that is only text it looks great in GIMP and in my web page maker. When I put it up on the web the text looks rough like someone cut it out with a jig saw. I use the

[Gimp-user] Text on Curved Path onto Imported jpeg Image

2009-11-19 Thread Janice28
Hi to all Gimp users. I have a question which is how to get text onto a curved path, created by Bezier tool and onto imported jpeg image, so the image is fine for GIMP. I just can't seem to do it and the following are the steps I do. I've also tried to do it onto a transparent layer, then merge

[Gimp-user] Text on Curved Path onto Imported jpeg Image

2009-11-19 Thread Ramana
add a new layer. then select-from path. Then take a bucket tool and give the color. -- Ramana (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

[Gimp-user] Text on Curved Path onto Imported jpeg Image

2009-11-19 Thread Janice R. L.
Hi ramana Thanks for your help re putting text on curved path in GIMP. You say to add a new layer then select from path and use the bucket tool to give the color. ramana what I need to know is when do I add the new layer. If you look at the steps I took in my initial request for help,would I add

[Gimp-user] Text entry-keyboard captured as shortcuts

2009-11-09 Thread Carusoswi
The text tool is still a work in progress, as everything in GIMP 2.7. I guess the current state has not been merged to the git master. as for now you need to select the text layer in the layers dialog, then click the text on the canvas. No cursor is shown, but you can remove and write text. you

[Gimp-user] Text entry-keyboard captured as shortcuts

2009-11-08 Thread Martijn Weisbeek
Oh, one more thing, how can I enter text the old way instead of using the on canvas option? I've made this selection, but don't remember how I got there. I believe the on-canvas text editing is the default for GIMP 2.7. If you prefer the old way you can select Use Editor in the options of the

[Gimp-user] Text entry-keyboard captured as shortcuts

2009-11-08 Thread Bernhard S.
Oh, one more thing, how can I enter text the old way instead of using the on canvas option? I've made this selection, but don't remember how I got there. I believe the on-canvas text editing is the default for GIMP 2.7. If you prefer the old way you can select Use Editor in the options of the

[Gimp-user] Text entry-keyboard captured as shortcuts

2009-11-07 Thread Carusoswi
I don't know how else to express it, but I'm running a fresh install of Gimp 2.7.1. The freshness because I just installed Ubuntu-Studio as a fresh install, so had to install 2.7.1 also freshly. Everything appears to be working except that when I want to enter text, I select the text tool with

[Gimp-user] Text outline and shadow

2009-04-25 Thread Francis Hookham
Please show me how to outline text and vary the thickness of the outline. Please also show me how to add a shadow and can direction and length be altered? camlad (Impatient newbie who has not found his way round the help files!) ___ Gimp-user mailing

Re: [Gimp-user] Text outline and shadow

2009-04-25 Thread Owen
Please show me how to outline text and vary the thickness of the outline. Please also show me how to add a shadow and can direction and length be altered? 1. Create your text 2. Layer-text to selection 3. Fill with background color 4. Edit-Stroke selection 5. Filters-Light and

Re: [Gimp-user] Text outline and shadow

2009-04-25 Thread bgw
Owen wrote: Please show me how to outline text and vary the thickness of the outline. Please also show me how to add a shadow and can direction and length be altered? 1. Create your text 2. Layer-text to selection 3. Fill with background color 4. Edit-Stroke selection 5.

[Gimp-user] Text Tool - No Centering option?

2009-03-31 Thread Brian Weese
hey, I'm new to using GIMP and love it so far... I can't seem to figure out how to center several lines of text within the same text box. I've had to add a spaces before each line of text and center every line by eyeballing it... And sometimes it is easier to seperate the text box into several

Re: [Gimp-user] Text Tool - No Centering option?

2009-03-31 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Brian Weese dbwe...@gmail.com wrote: hey, I'm new to using GIMP and love it so far... I can't seem to figure out how to center several lines of text within the Look in the Tool Options dialog while typing the text - there are justification options there...

Re: [Gimp-user] Text Tool - No Centering option?

2009-03-31 Thread David Gowers
Hi Brian! On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Brian Weese dbwe...@gmail.com wrote: hey, I'm new to using GIMP and love it so far... I can't seem to figure out how to center several lines of text within the same text box.  I've had to add a spaces before each line of text and center every line

[Gimp-user] Text tool

2009-03-31 Thread Maureen
I'd like to add to Chris Mohler's comment about centering text. I am having trouble with the text tool also. I have a graphic that contains an animated GIF, an un-animated .JPEG and text. It is perfect the way it is. But I want to copy it and change the color of the text to use against a

[Gimp-user] Text to Path.,..add color

2009-03-11 Thread Bill T.
I am designing lightscriibe disk covers and high contrast is required. I'm designing on Gimp 2.6.3 and as of this point I am doing my Text Along Path, as per the most offered tutorial. The problem is that on a white background ff ff ff and for the contrast use Absolute Black, 00 00 00. When I

Re: [Gimp-user] Text to Path.,..add color

2009-03-11 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 17:58 +0100, Bill T. wrote: The only method I have come up with is to create each letter with the Text tool, one at a time. Having the letter I then need to move it into place and to rotate it until it fills the outline and it is just to difficult to accomplish.

[Gimp-user] Text to Path.,..add color

2009-03-11 Thread Bill T.
I have found the simple answer and I post it for anyone that might, like myself, have over looked the obvious. Ignore the Tool Box and click Select and in the Drop Menu choose From Path. Choose the color, select the fill tool and click once on the text, you'll see the ants marching when the

Re: [Gimp-user] Text Circle

2009-02-26 Thread firestick
Michael J. Hammel wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 03:18 +, minim...@wi.rr.com wrote: Does anyone know where I can get the script for the text-circle in 2.4, that works with 2.6? File-Create-Logos-Text Cirle Wow, great! Can this kind of effect be adjusted after it's been created? I've

Re: [Gimp-user] Text Circle

2009-02-26 Thread Owen
Michael J. Hammel wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 03:18 +, minim...@wi.rr.com wrote: Does anyone know where I can get the script for the text-circle in 2.4, that works with 2.6? File-Create-Logos-Text Cirle Wow, great! Can this kind of effect be adjusted after it's been created? I've

[Gimp-user] Text Circle

2009-02-25 Thread minimoto
Does anyone know where I can get the script for the text-circle in 2.4, that works with 2.6? ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Text Circle

2009-02-25 Thread Michael J. Hammel
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 03:18 +, minim...@wi.rr.com wrote: Does anyone know where I can get the script for the text-circle in 2.4, that works with 2.6? File-Create-Logos-Text Cirle -- Michael J. Hammel mjham...@graphics-muse.org / http://www.graphics-muse.org

Re: [Gimp-user] text color

2008-12-13 Thread Bettina Karena Lechner
Hi! Click with the text-tool on the text-layer to activate it and look at the settings - there you can change the color. hope this helps, tina Von: schoappied schoapp...@gmail.com Datum: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:10:51 +0100 An: Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Betreff: [Gimp-user] text color

Re: [Gimp-user] text color

2008-12-13 Thread Tobias Jakobs
Am Freitag, den 12.12.2008, 22:10 +0100 schrieb schoappied: Hi, How do I change the inserted text color? http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-text.html Regards, Tobias ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU

[Gimp-user] text color

2008-12-12 Thread schoappied
Hi, How do I change the inserted text color? Thanks, \s ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Text-in-stitches on GIMP

2008-10-20 Thread Jaime Seuma
Peter Saffrey wrote: I'm a fairly new GIMP user. Be gentle. I'd like to duplicate the effect described in this Photoshop tutorial: http://pshero.com/archives/text-in-stitches The critical part of this is selecting a path from text and using a custom brush to draw along this path. Once

[Gimp-user] Text-in-stitches on GIMP

2008-10-19 Thread Peter Saffrey
I'm a fairly new GIMP user. Be gentle. I'd like to duplicate the effect described in this Photoshop tutorial: http://pshero.com/archives/text-in-stitches The critical part of this is selecting a path from text and using a custom brush to draw along this path. Once I've got this working, I can

Re: [Gimp-user] Text-in-stitches on GIMP

2008-10-19 Thread Tobias Jakobs
Am Sonntag, den 19.10.2008, 17:17 + schrieb Peter Saffrey: I'm a fairly new GIMP user. Be gentle. I'd like to duplicate the effect described in this Photoshop tutorial: http://pshero.com/archives/text-in-stitches I haven't looked to long into this tutorial, but I just remembered that

Re: [Gimp-user] Text-in-stitches on GIMP

2008-10-19 Thread Michael J. Hammel
On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 17:17 +, Peter Saffrey wrote: I'd like to duplicate the effect described in this Photoshop tutorial: http://pshero.com/archives/text-in-stitches I've got as far as adding some text and turning this into a path using Layer-Text to path. I can then do stroke path

[Gimp-user] Text-in-stitches on GIMP

2008-10-19 Thread Philippe D.
The biggest problem is to manage the brush orientation. Having a brush with the same image oriented differently in each layer don't really help. Of course you can link the orientation with the a tablet pressure, but it's not practical and don't help for path stroking. For now, as far as I know,

Re: [Gimp-user] Text-in-stitches on GIMP

2008-10-19 Thread David Gowers
Hi, On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Philippe D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The biggest problem is to manage the brush orientation. Why? Doesn't it work to link the orientation with 'angle' parameter? David ___ Gimp-user mailing list

Re: [Gimp-user] Text

2008-04-23 Thread Kevin Cozens
Lap1994 wrote: Can I change the size of a text while tipying it? Eg: Here a small text 12pt, and here a big one 86pt, in the same text-layer You can't mix text attributes in one entry box yet. I say yet as there is a GSoC project to enhance the text tool. However, an enhanced text tool won't

[Gimp-user] Text

2008-04-22 Thread Lap1994
Can I change the size of a text while tipying it? Eg: Here a small text 12pt, and here a big one 86pt, in the same text-layer Or change the style of the font. Eg: Here is bold, and here italic, here is normal, in the same text-layer Or the color. Eg: Red, White, Blue, Black, Gray, Purple,

Re: [Gimp-user] Text

2008-04-22 Thread Owen
Can I change the size of a text while tipying it? Eg: Here a small text 12pt, and here a big one 86pt, in the same text-layer Or change the style of the font. Eg: Here is bold, and here italic, here is normal, in the same text-layer Or the color. Eg: Red, White, Blue, Black, Gray, Purple,

[Gimp-user] Text not scaling in gimp.

2006-06-04 Thread Sharon Diehm
Hi, I am a new user to Gimp release 2.2.8. I have started using the text feature in Gimp. How can I make gimp scale the text to the size I want it? It just stays the same size on screen no matter how much editing I do with the tool options box. Help much appreciated. Leanne

Re: [Gimp-user] Text not scaling in gimp.

2006-06-04 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris
On Sunday 04 June 2006 11:33 pm, Sharon Diehm wrote: Hi, I am a new user to Gimp release 2.2.8. I have started using the text feature in Gimp. How can I make gimp scale the text to the size I want it? It just stays the same size on screen no matter how much editing I do with the tool options

[Gimp-user] text bending

2006-01-18 Thread Vytautas Povilaitis
Is there a way to bend lines of text or just stripes in GIMP? I need to make text go around a circle. -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU

Re: [Gimp-user] text bending

2006-01-18 Thread Simon Roberts
--- Vytautas Povilaitis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to bend lines of text or just stripes in GIMP? I need to make text go around a circle. I'm a newbie with the GIMP, but you can do that in OpenOffice Draw which is more of a design and create type tool, while the GIMP seems to

Re: [Gimp-user] text bending

2006-01-18 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 07:06:21AM -0800, Simon Roberts wrote: --- Vytautas Povilaitis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to bend lines of text or just stripes in GIMP? I need to make text go around a circle. I'm a newbie with the GIMP, but you can do that in OpenOffice Draw

Re: [Gimp-user] text bending

2006-01-18 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:55:28PM +0200, Vytautas Povilaitis wrote: Is there a way to bend lines of text or just stripes in GIMP? I need to make text go around a circle. Toolbox/Xtns/Script-fu/Logos/Text Circle for gimp-2.2 Toolbox/Xtns/Logos/Text Circle for gimp-2.3 also, gimp-2.3 has a

Re: [Gimp-user] text bending

2006-01-18 Thread Vytautas Povilaitis
Wow, that's it. Thank you Carol. On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:22:50 +0200, Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:55:28PM +0200, Vytautas Povilaitis wrote: Is there a way to bend lines of text or just stripes in GIMP? I need to make text go around a circle.

Re: [Gimp-user] text bending

2006-01-18 Thread Simon Roberts
--- Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a newbie with the GIMP, but you can do that in OpenOffice Draw which is more of a design and create type tool ... interesting. i would like to know if Vytautas Povilaitis had open office installed and i would also like to know what other

[Gimp-user] text decoration

2006-01-14 Thread Alan Wolfe
Hey guys, I was wondering, is there a way to style text like you can in photoshop ie add gradients, patterns, outlines, etc? probably a retarded question but asking anyways :P thanks! ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU

Re: [Gimp-user] text decoration

2006-01-14 Thread Jeff Trefftzs
On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 20:59 -0800, Alan Wolfe wrote: Hey guys, I was wondering, is there a way to style text like you can in photoshop ie add gradients, patterns, outlines, etc? Oodles of ways, actually. Start by selecting the text. If it's on its own layer, try alpha to selection. Once

[Gimp-user] Text on transparent background

2005-07-10 Thread Steve Croteau
Greetings, I'm a Gimp newbie and I'm trying to create my company 'black text' logo on a transparent background and save it as a jpg to be used on my web site.  I would like the black text to float above the background images on my site allowing the background image to show around the text.  

Re: [Gimp-user] Text on transparent background

2005-07-10 Thread Andreas Waechter
I'm a Gimp newbie and I'm trying to create my company 'black text' logo on a transparent background and save it as a jpg to be used on my web site. Transparency and jpg are (AFAIK) a contradiction - jpg doesn't support transparency. I'm doing fine with the whole process except the

Re: [Gimp-user] Text on transparent background

2005-07-10 Thread Steve Croteau
On Sunday 10 July 2005 3:25 pm, Andreas Waechter wrote: I'm a Gimp newbie and I'm trying to create my company 'black text' logo on a transparent background and save it as a jpg to be used on my web site. Transparency and jpg are (AFAIK) a contradiction - jpg doesn't support transparency.

Re: [Gimp-user] Text on transparent background

2005-07-10 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 03:16:05PM -0700, Steve Croteau wrote: Greetings, I'm a Gimp newbie and I'm trying to create my company 'black text' logo on a transparent background and save it as a jpg to be used on my web site. ?I would like the black text to float above the background images on

Re: [Gimp-user] Text on transparent background

2005-07-10 Thread Michael Schumacher
Steve Croteau wrote: 1)Don't save to jpg because it doesn't support transparency. 2)Use gif or png instead. 3)To be polite to Win users, if using a png format - change mode to indexed. s/Win/IE/, but otherwise correct. Michael -- The GIMP http://www.gimp.org | IRC:

Re: [Gimp-user] Text along Path.

2005-06-14 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 06:06:16AM +0200, nuno alexandre wrote: On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 20:01 -0700, Carol Spears wrote: well, i got the hard parts done -- a lot more quickly than i thought i would be able to. first i made a path using the pathtool, then i used the text tool to make some

Re: [Gimp-user] Text along Path.

2005-06-14 Thread Jakub Steiner
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 08:23 +0200, nuno alexandre wrote: i am curious which version of gimp has the Text along path button, it might be new. perhaps you should try the recent developers version: ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.3/ I'm using version 2.2.7 which in the one in Gentoo portage

Re: [Gimp-user] Text along Path.

2005-06-14 Thread nuno alexandre
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 12:55 +0200, Jakub Steiner wrote: Hello there! This functionality indeed appears to only be in 2.3. If you want to have a little more interactive control on how the text is placed on the curve, I really suggest using Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) and import back to

[Gimp-user] Text along Path.

2005-06-13 Thread nuno alexandre
Hi, Is there some way to achieve this with TheGimp ? http://www.ultraweaver.com/tutorials/textalongpath/index.htm thanks nuno -- Non-free programs are dangerous to you and to your community. Don't let them get a place in your life. - RMS

Re: [Gimp-user] Text along Path.

2005-06-13 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 04:01:27AM +0200, nuno alexandre wrote: Is there some way to achieve this with TheGimp ? http://www.ultraweaver.com/tutorials/textalongpath/index.htm well, i got the hard parts done -- a lot more quickly than i thought i would be able to. first i made a path using the

Re: [Gimp-user] Text along Path.

2005-06-13 Thread Eric P
nuno alexandre wrote: Hi, Is there some way to achieve this with TheGimp ? http://www.ultraweaver.com/tutorials/textalongpath/index.htm thanks nuno 'Curve Bend' under filters can do a similar effect, but I think you'll want Inkscape (Inkscape.org) to do it right.

Re: [Gimp-user] Text tool

2005-01-21 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Alexander Rabtchevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've looked through the discussion on the next GIMP release in the development list. :) Are there any plans on adding the features the text tool don't have compared to freetype plugin (spacing, transformations). While the transformations

[Gimp-user] Text tool

2005-01-20 Thread Alexander Rabtchevich
I've looked through the discussion on the next GIMP release in the development list. :) Are there any plans on adding the features the text tool don't have compared to freetype plugin (spacing, transformations). While the transformations are available via tools, there is the bug at least in

[Gimp-user] text tool crash (bug 154144 ?)

2004-11-02 Thread Andrew
Mandrake 10 Community I was using the gimp2_0-2.0.4-1mdk.i586.rpm that came with the above distro without any problems. I then upgraded to gimp-2.0.5 (tar.bz2). Now the text tool causes Gimp to crash after either one or two keystrokes. If it crashes after the second, the first letter I type

[Fwd: Re: [Gimp-user] Text tool problem]

2004-10-19 Thread Balas Mark
Hi! As I said before, I have a serious problem with the text tool: after selecting it and start typing anything, GIMP closes its windows and exits. Last time I wasn't able to answer every questions: Sven Neumann wrote: It would probably help to start gimp from an xterm (or whatever terminal

[Gimp-user] Text tool problem

2004-10-14 Thread Balas Mark
Hi! I have just started to use Gimp 2.0.5, under Mandrake Linux 10.0. I have a really serious problem with the text tool. If I do the following: 1. Start Gimp 2. Create a new image 3. Select the text tool 4. Click on the new image 5. Start typing any text Both the image window and Gimp closes

Re: [Gimp-user] Text tool problem

2004-10-14 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Balas Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just started to use Gimp 2.0.5, under Mandrake Linux 10.0. I have a really serious problem with the text tool. If I do the following: 1. Start Gimp 2. Create a new image 3. Select the text tool 4. Click on the new image 5. Start typing

Re: [Gimp-user] Text tool problem

2004-10-14 Thread Geoffrey
Balas Mark wrote: Hi! I have just started to use Gimp 2.0.5, under Mandrake Linux 10.0. I have a really serious problem with the text tool. If I do the following: 1. Start Gimp 2. Create a new image 3. Select the text tool 4. Click on the new image 5. Start typing any text Both the image window

Re: [Gimp-user] Text effects in GIMP 2.0

2004-10-03 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, David McClamrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In GIMP 1.2 (or even 1.0, with which I started), it was easy to produce a beveled text effect: just insert text, leave it selected, and apply a starburst (spherical), foreground-to-background gradient. Only the text itself was selected, not

[Gimp-user] Text tool

2004-09-23 Thread Michael Wagner
Hello gimp-gurus, I am trying to create web navigation buttons with text on it. Of course I am using TheGimp for it, but I have a problem: The button should have a total height of 16 pixels and so I start with an empty image of that height. Every time I use the text tool the resulting text looks

Re: [Gimp-user] Text tool

2004-09-23 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Michael Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to create web navigation buttons with text on it. Of course I am using TheGimp for it, but I have a problem: The button should have a total height of 16 pixels and so I start with an empty image of that height. Every time I use the

Re[2]: [Gimp-user] Text tool

2004-09-23 Thread Michael Wagner
Hallo, I am using version 2.0.4 on Windows; I have also tried the same thing on the same version on Linux (Knoppix-Hdd-Install to be exact). Viele Grüße Michael Wagner -- www.callacd.com - Ihr persönlicher Downloadservice === Thursday, September

Re: [Gimp-user] text options

2004-07-07 Thread Pawel Müller
Hi folks, On Tuesday 06 July 2004 15:15, Sven Neumann wrote: Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: shouldnt using a polish keyboard and a font with the characters included work to produce polish text? Oh Sorry, I did not seen the polish characters on my polish keyboard I conjured out of

Re: [Gimp-user] text options

2004-07-06 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: shouldnt using a polish keyboard and a font with the characters included work to produce polish text? Yes of course. But I assumed that a polish keyboard wasn't available. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list

[Gimp-user] text options

2004-07-05 Thread Pawel Müller
Salve folks, I just changed to gimp-2.0, and it's real great. But: I miss somethin'. In gimp1.2.x I could get access to the character map of a font. I need it, 'cause I have to design some polish posters. So my question is, how I can get gimp-2.0 to print such a charMap, or if there is another

Re: [Gimp-user] text options

2004-07-05 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Pawel Müller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just changed to gimp-2.0, and it's real great. But: I miss somethin'. In gimp1.2.x I could get access to the character map of a font. I need it, 'cause I have to design some polish posters. So my question is, how I can get gimp-2.0 to print

[Gimp-user] Text tool

2004-06-16 Thread MaRCeLO PeReiRA
Hi there, I would like to write some words over a picture, like Picture by Marcelo Pereira (as a signature on the picture), but I can't add it to the image, because I am losing resolution. I would like to add the words with high resolution, without anti-aliasing effects or whatever else. It

[Gimp-user] Text layer -- tutorial resources?

2004-04-26 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I am relatively new to the Gimp, though I do have some experience with Photoshop. I know how to do basic image editing and manipulation in Photoshop, and I am trying to learn how to do this in the Gimp (1.2 or 2 -- I have them both installed on my Xandros Linux system). The first

Re: [Gimp-user] text that follows a path

2002-12-12 Thread Jeff Trefftzs
Hi Rory - There is a text along path script (actually, there are to of 'em). Unfortunately, I don't remember just where I got them, so they are included here as two attachments. Just drop them into your .gimp-1.2/scripts directory and take it from there. Better read them first, though, to

RE: [Gimp-user] text that follows a path

2002-12-12 Thread Walker, Sam
, December 11, 2002 9:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Gimp-user] text that follows a path How can I make a string of text follow a path? Is there a plugin to do this, or can I use some render filter or what? Basically I've got a string of text I want it to follow a wiggly line. The closest

Re: [Gimp-user] Text on a curved line?

2002-10-10 Thread Geoffrey
Using 1.2.3 I found something just this evening that I used to curve some text. It's under filters-distorts-curvebend Basically, you create the curve you want by adjusting the points on the grid. Worked well. Unliklely you could do a complete circle. To curve text you need to adjust upper

Re: [Gimp-user] Text on a curved line?

2002-10-09 Thread Akkana
Paul Thomas writes: was wondering if Gimp can put text on a curved line. I need to have some text around the outside of a circular image. Walker, Sam writes: My version of GIMP, 1.2.3, has a Script Fu-Logos-Text Circle plugin, that creates text in a circle. Wow, I don't even have a Logos

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