On Wednesday 22 November 2006 11:51, Christian Brink wrote: >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 Oh dear yes. I've leached quite a few really decent ones from goldenweb.it. I don't recall if I've copied them over from the FC2 drive yet, but I will. Thanks for reminding me. Done. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
