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Feature suggestion: Text
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 3:52 pm
by TorfusPolymorphus
I'd love to be able to use texts in different fonts in my images. Something like
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TEXT { "my text" "this_cool_font" }
Modern fonts are stored as vectors anyway, so that shouldn't be a problem. I know doing font stuff in a platform independent way is a PITA, although using a 3rd party library (
freetype?) could ease that pain greatly.
As a bonus, alignment options.
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 8:39 am
by pakin
I'd love to be able to use texts in different fonts in my images.
For the time being, check out
pfbtocfdg and my
Curses picture in the Gallery.
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 6:37 am
by TorfusPolymorphus
This is great! And it even works for proportional fonts. Thanks a lot, this is a very valueable tool.
It seems that there is no general listing for such 3rd party tools in the wiki. I think it would be nice to have one. Any opinions on that?
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 3:42 pm
by MtnViewJohn
TorfusPolymorphus wrote:This is great! And it even works for proportional fonts. Thanks a lot, this is a very valueable tool.
It seems that there is no general listing for such 3rd party tools in the wiki. I think it would be nice to have one. Any opinions on that?
I have renamed the Linux GUI page to
Third-Party Applications. Have a party.
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 6:40 pm
by pakin
...and I've added a pointer for pfbtocfdg to that page.