Image composition Q

[Gene Heskett]

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.

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