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- <p>
- The Text tool places text into an image. When you click on an image
- with this tool the Text Editor dialog is opened where you can type
- your text.
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- <p>
- The Text Tool can be called in the following
- order, from the image-menu:
- <span class="guimenuitem"><span class="accel">T</span>ools</span>/
- <span class="guimenuitem">Te<span class="accel">x</span>t
- </span>.
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- </li>
- <li>
- <p>
- The Tool can also be called by clicking the tool icon:
- <span class="guiicon">
- <span class="inlinemediaobject"><img src="../images/toolbox/text.png" /></span>
- </span>
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- <h4 class="title"><a id="id3447109"></a>Key modifiers (Defaults)</h4>
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- <span class="term">
- <span>
- <b class="keycap">t</b>
- </span>
- </span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- The <span><b class="keycap">t</b></span> key will change the active tool to the
- Text Tool.
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- </dd>
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- <dt>
- <span class="term">Overview</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- The available tool options for the Texttool can be accessed by
- double clicking the texttool icon.<span class="guiicon">
- <span class="inlinemediaobject"><img src="../images/toolbox/text.png" /></span>
- </span>
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Font</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- There are two ways of selecting fonts in the GIMP. The
- first is from the image Dialogs/Fonts menu. The second is
- with the Font selector in this tool. Both methods select
- from the installed X fonts. When you select a font it is
- interactively applied to your text.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Size</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- This control sets the size of the font in any of several
- selectable units.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Hinting</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- Uses the indices of adjustment to modify the characters in order
- to produce clear letters in small font sizes.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Force Auto-Hinter</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- <span class="guilabel">Auto Hinter</span> tries to automatically compute
- information for better representation of the character font.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Antialiasing</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- Antialiasing will render the text with much smoother edges and
- curves. This is achieved by slight blurring and merging of the
- edges. This option can radically improve the visual appearance of
- the rendered typeface. Caution should be exercised when using
- antialiasing on images that are not in RGB color space.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Color</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- Color of the text that will be drawn next. Defaults to
- black. Selectable from the color picker dialog box that
- opens when the current color sample is clickes.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Justify</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- Causes the text to be justified according to any of four
- rules selectable from the associated icons.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Indent</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- Controls the indent spacing from the left margin.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Line Spacing</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- Controls the spacing between successive lines of text. This
- setting is interactive: it appears at the same time in image
- text.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Create Path from Text</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- This tool creates a selection path from the selected text.
- </p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
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- <p class="title">
- <b>Text Editor</b>
- </p>
- <dl>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Overview</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- This dialog window is opened when you click on the image with the
- Text Tool. It's a still basic text editor that nevertheless allows
- you to write on several lines. Word wrap is not possible - the
- text layer lengthens gradually - and you have to press the
- <span><b class="keycap">Enter</b></span> key to move to the next line.
- </p>
- <p>
- The text you type appears interactively in the image, in a
- rectangular selection that has its left upper corner on the pixel
- you have clicked with the tool.
- </p>
- <p>
- You can correct the text you are writing and you can change the
- text font with the Font Editor.
- </p>
- <p>
- You can move the text by using the Move Tool, but you loose the
- Editor then. You can re-edit this text as you will see now.
- </p>
- <p>
- As soon as you start writing, a Text layer is created in the Layer
- Dialog. On an image with such a layer (the image you are working
- on, or a .xcf image), you can resume text editing by activating
- this text layer then clicking on it (double click).
- </p>
- <p>
- To add another text to your image click on a non-text layer: a new
- Text Editor will appear and a new text layer will be created. To
- pass from a text to another one activate the corresponding text
- layer and click on it to activate the editor.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Load Text from File</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- Text can be loaded from a text file by clicking the folder
- icon in the text editor.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">Clear all Text</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- Clicking this icon clears the editor and the associated text
- on the image.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">From Left to Right</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- This option causes text to be entered from left to right, as
- is the case with most Western languages and may Eastern
- languages.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <span class="term">From Right to Left</span>
- </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>
- This option allows text to be entered from right to left, as
- is the case with some Eastern languages, such as Arabic
- (illustrated in the icon).
- </p>
- </dd>
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