hi,
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:27:36AM -0700, David Wuertele wrote:

I have some Japanese text that I need to superimpose on an image. I have the font that I need to use in .ttf form. I am able to create files and type Japanese into them using emacs, but I couldn't figure out how to do so in the Gimp Text tool.

if you are using gimp2, then you need to drop the font into ~/.fonts (for system-wide use) or into ~/.gimp-2.0/fonts for only gimp to use it. use the tool with the big T icon and touch the image surface to engage the tool.

if you double click on the button with the big T, you will see the text tool options and be able to control the text size and other things.

weird to me that you can get the fonts to work in emacs but not gimp, unless you are using gimp-1.2. if this is the case, i highly recommend upgrading to gimp-2.0 since it uses fontconfig. the way fonts worked were in flux during the gimp-1.2 series.

carol

Hi,

David Wuertele writes:

I have some Japanese text that I need to superimpose on an image. I have the font that I need to use in .ttf form. I am able to create files and type Japanese into them using emacs, but I couldn't figure out how to do so in the Gimp Text tool.

The GIMP text editor supports GTK+ input modules just like any other GTK+ widget that allows to input text. AFAIK there are input modules to enter japanese text.

You could also write the text in emacs and open it from file using the GIMP text editor. Your file needs to be in UTF-8 encoding though.

Sven