[LAU] [OT] gimp frustrations

[Arnold Krille]

Am Donnerstag, 6. Dezember 2007 schrieb david:
> Arnold Krille wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 5. Dezember 2007 schrieb david:
> >> Arnold Krille wrote:
> >>> Am Mittwoch, 5. Dezember 2007 schrieb Dave Phillips:
> >>>> I have an image. I want to add simple text to it. I want that text to
> >>>> be white, not black.
> >>>> What would you use to do this ?
> >>> Gimp!
> >>> Either select the right color before you start creating the text.
> >>> Or edit the text again and change the colors while editing.
> >>> Or make the text its own layer and fill the whole layer with the color
> >>> you want.
> >>> Or...
> >>> You could also try to do it on the commandline with "convert", but I
> >>> think Gimp is _much_ easier to use.
> >> I prefer adding text to images using Inkscape. Vector-based text comes
> >> out much better than bitmap based text, at least to me.
> > After saving to a pixel-based format (and I believe that dave means
> > pixel-based when he talks about images) that advantage becomes nill. And
> > gimp afaik uses the same font-engine as inkscape to render text. And yes,
> > inkscape renders text! To screen and to the exported pixmap/image...
> I agree, the final text is rendered as a bitmap. But in Inkscape, that
> isn't done until you export the image. So in the meantime, you can
> resize the text and do other stuff with it without losing any quality.

Same for gimp. :-) Since some versions text is floated in a way that you can 
edit it later on which means that it is not really rendered unless you do 
something with it that breaks it...

Arnold
-- 
visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/
---
Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me 
to all your contacts.
After a month or so log in as root and do a rm / -rf. Or ask your 
administrator to do so...
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
Url : http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/attachments/20071206/bdb17386/attachment.pgp