Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings;
I am in need of a program such as Gimp, but with a better developed text
entry similar to XaraEx or OOoWriter, but which can directly save the
result as a .png image, something writer can't do. Gimp can, but the
font choices suck a very high vacuum.
XaraEx looks like it was the thing, till I found that once the text has
been planted, it appears not to be movable for setting up a pleasing
composition.
Do we have such a tool that can write text and manipulate its size and
position and then save in a png/jpg/etc image format capable of being
loaded into 4L-gui? I want to write cd/dvd labels.
I use the the Freetype plug-in for Gimp - It does a much better job rendering fonts and gives you far more formatting text options (and it creates a layer by default).
As for font choices there are many free (legal free, PD) TT font sites
available, just dump them into your ~./fonts
