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Fwd: something's starting, it is the text tool

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Fwd: something's starting, it is the text tool Partha Bagchi 13 Jan 17:52
  Fwd: something's starting, it is the text tool peter sikking 13 Jan 17:59
   Fwd: something's starting, it is the text tool Partha Bagchi 13 Jan 18:05
    Fwd: something's starting, it is the text tool Tobias Oelgarte 13 Jan 18:28
Partha Bagchi
2012-01-13 17:52:45 UTC (almost 13 years ago)

Fwd: something's starting, it is the text tool

Apologies. Meant to send it to Gimp-developer.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Partha Bagchi
Date: Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] something's starting, it is the text tool To: peter sikking

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:12 PM, peter sikking wrote:

On Dec 19, I wrote:

The GIMP UI team just got a bit bigger. Dominique Schmidt will work the first 3 months of 2012 on an appropriately sized UI design project. The deliverable is a UI spec.

today we picked the topic Dominique will be working on:

working with text in GIMP, specifically with the text tool.

to start tackling this from the right end, we from the UI team first want to better understand the role of text in working with GIMP. specifically work that is within the product vision:

- high-end photo manipulation; - creating original art from images; - producing icons, graphical elements of web pages and

peter sikking
2012-01-13 17:59:19 UTC (almost 13 years ago)

Fwd: something's starting, it is the text tool

Partha Bagchi wrote:

What's wrong with the tool as it stands now? Looks good to me for what I do with text. My main focus is photography.

tell us what we what you do with text, and we can tell you if the text tool is good enough.

that is the right order of doing things.

--ps

founder + principal interaction architect man + machine interface works

http://blog.mmiworks.net: on interaction architecture

Partha Bagchi
2012-01-13 18:05:05 UTC (almost 13 years ago)

Fwd: something's starting, it is the text tool

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:59 PM, peter sikking wrote:

Partha Bagchi wrote:

What's wrong with the tool as it stands now? Looks good to me for what I do with text. My main focus is photography.

tell us what we what you do with text, and we can tell you if the text tool is good enough.

that is the right order of doing things.

Tobias Oelgarte
2012-01-13 18:28:06 UTC (almost 13 years ago)

Fwd: something's starting, it is the text tool

Am 13.01.2012 19:05, schrieb Partha Bagchi:

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:59 PM, peter sikking wrote:

Partha Bagchi wrote:

What's wrong with the tool as it stands now? Looks good to me for what I do with text. My main focus is photography.

tell us what we what you do with text, and we can tell you if the text tool is good enough.

that is the right order of doing things.

--ps

founder + principal interaction architect man + machine interface works

http://blog.mmiworks.net: on interaction architecture

Usually I add banner text (like a greeting card) and similar usage. I find the text tool quite usable for that purpose.

I never really used the text-tool in Gimp. In comparison to other programs it is quite hard to handle, but good enough for simple tasks. If i need to include more then one line of text inside an image, then i export the image and add the text with another program. It may be Inkscape, OOO, or something else that allows vector graphics like operations.