[LAU] [OT] gimp frustrations

[david]

Arnold Krille wrote:
> 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...

Then my inability to make it work that way apparently owes its problem 
to GIMP's design rather than its feature set.

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David
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