[Gimp-user] Re: Text tool problem

2004-10-14 Thread olivier ripoll
Balas Mark wrote: Hi! What versions of freetype and fontconfig are you using? How could I find this out? (Sorry for being so amateur, but I switched to Linux only three months ago.) Go to the mandrake control center, package category, and launch the remove package tool. There you can search for

[Gimp-user] Re: Text tool

2004-09-23 Thread olivier ripoll
Michael Wagner wrote: 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 really ugly. I already have a running web page where the navigation bar is created of text links (only using the A

[Gimp-user] Re: Text tool

2004-09-23 Thread olivier ripoll
--- Michael Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hallo again, I send this mail back to the list (maybe my reply-to is not correct... you replied directly to me, not to the list). or Michael Wagner wrote: The button should have a total height of 16 pixels and so I start with an empty image

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Text tool

2004-09-23 Thread Michael Wagner
Hallo, [snip] or Yep, these fonts should be perfect. But indeed, 16 pixels is a little or troublesome to have nice text: I have tried with Nimbus and Vera, and or the result is not satisfying... I tried Tahoma and Verdena and the result gets better... or 2- antialiasing: in the text tool

[Gimp-user] Re: Text Tool

2004-09-23 Thread Jim Clark
I have used a font called Ergoe for 12 pt text buttons, and it worked great. I cannot tell you from where I installed it, but any time I need small text it is the one I choose as it is clear and legible. Here is a web site I did many years ago, much has changed but the mouseover on the left is

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Text tool

2004-09-23 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Michael Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: or Yep, these fonts should be perfect. But indeed, 16 pixels is a little or troublesome to have nice text: I have tried with Nimbus and Vera, and or the result is not satisfying... I tried Tahoma and Verdena and the result gets better... The