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Options that aren't available for the chosen font are grayed out. Weight shows what typographic "blackness" options you have for the font you have chosen ( black, bold, demibold, medium and regular). This is important, because many different versions of well-known fonts exist and you need to specify which one you mean if you have several versions installed. This parameter has to distinguish different fonts with the same name that are from different companies. There are eight font parameters ( Foundry, Weight, Slant, Set width, Spacing, Registry, Encoding and Border) in the Text Tool dialog box.įoundry refers to the origin of your font (usually the manufacturer).
#Moving text blocks in gimp how to#
To learn how to install new fonts, read "How To Get Fonts To Gimp" starting on page 759. As a rule, be careful using fonts with Asian names, or avoid them entirely. Note that some of the more unusual fonts (such as Chinese or Japanese fonts) may bring X to a near-crashing halt simply because so many characters are involved. Click the name of a font to change the text in the text box. The Font list displays all fonts installed on the local X server. This will make curves look smoother, but the edges will become unsharp and less distinctive. It will blur the edge pixels to transparency. It is often used on artistic text, because it softens the jaggies (the jagged pixel edges of the letter's curves in low resolution). For example, there are 90 pixels for every 72 points, so a text size of 50 points will be 63 pixels wide, because there are 1.25 pixels for every point.Īntialiasing is an effect used to smooth edges in bitmapped images. However, on a high-resolution screen, such as one with a resolution of 90 pixels per inch, setting the text to points will render a larger text than setting the text to pixels. Standard screen resolution is often 72 pixels per inch, in which case text in pixels will be the same size as text measured in points. For example, 12 points is the standard size of body text in most word processing programs. A point, however, is a fixed value - one inch is the same as 72 points. A pixel is the smallest component in a bitmap image, and all measures in pixels depend on the screen resolution. Read about this plug-in in Dynamic Text.Īt the top of the Text tool dialog, the current Text Size is shown in either pixels or points (you can choose which you prefer from the pull-down menu). Tip: If you want to be able to edit the text, you should use a great plug-in called Dynamic Text instead of the Text tool. Then select the Bucket fill tool and click in the layer. Choose right-click|Select| All, click in the foreground color field in the toolbox to access the Color Selection dialog and choose another color. radio button is checked in the text layer. It is also simple to change the color of the letters in a text layer. However, if you choose to place it in a transparent text layer, it's easy to move the entire text layer with the Move tool. Once you've anchored the text to the image, you can't edit it anymore. To create a text layer, press the New Layer button or double-click on the Floating selection icon bar. To merge the text with the image, press the Anchor Layer button in the Layers & Channels dialog. You can either anchor the text to the last active layer, or place it in a layer of its own. When you're satisfied with the position of the text, you have two options. You can move and drop the text as many times as you like, and you don't have to switch to the Move tool. To move the text selection to another position, place the cursor on top of the text so that the move symbol appears, then click and drag the text. If for some reason you aren't happy with the text - if it's too small, too large or if the font just doesn't look right - you can delete the floating text selection by pressing the cross ( Delete Layer) button in the Layers & Channel dialog. The text will have the same color as the foreground color in the toolbox.
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Now your text string will appear as a floating selection in your image.
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Click on the font you want, set the parameters if you want to change the default values and click OK. Type in the text you want in the text box in the bottom of the dialog. The Text Tool dialog box will open and display a list of the installed fonts. To insert text in a Gimp image, click on the Te xt tool in the toolbox and then click at a spot inside the image. Gimp's support for text is based on how the X Window System manages fonts.