. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 7.5.6 Paths and Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 7.5.7 Paths and . . . . 119 iv CONTENTS 9 Text Management 123 9.1 Text Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 9.1.1 Text Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 9.1.2 Managing Text Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 9.1.3 Text Toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 7.5.5 Paths and Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 8.4 Text and Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 8.5 Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 8.5.1 Embellishing Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 8

159 The Flip Tool 162 The Magnify Tool 162 Chapter 11: Text And Fonts .......................................... 165 The Text Tool 166 Chapter 12: Brushes, Gradients, Palettes And Patterns .......... 583 CML Explorer 584 Checkerboard 586 Diffraction Patterns 587 Dynamic Text 588 Figures 591 Flame 592 Fractal Explorer 595 Genetic 599 Gfig 600 First Script-Fu Script 708 Lesson 5: Giving Our Script Some Guts 713 Lesson 6: Extending The Text Box Script 716 The G imp Us e r’s Man u al x v Ta b l e O f C o n ten ts PART IX Perl-Fu

many fewer); but if you create them by transforming a selection into a path, or by transforming text into a path, the result can easily contain hundreds of anchor points, or even thousands. A path Paths and Text GNU Image Manipulation Program Generated by docbook2odf Page 32 of 421 G e n e r a t e d b y d o c b o o k 2 o d f A text item created using the Text tool can be transformed Create path from text button in the Tool Options for the Text tool. This can be useful for several purposes, including: • Stroking the path, which gives you many possibilities for fancy text. • More importantly

formats used by image editing software Image processing software can store extra information, such as text and layers, in its own file format. If you save the image in these formats, you can open your image Alters the zoom level of the image. Measure Shift + M Shows distances and angles. Text M Places text into your image. Image Window A screenshot of the image window illustrating the important

Crop and Resize Shift R Rotate Shift T Scale Shift S Shear Shift P Perspective Shift F Flip T Text Shift B Bucket Fill L Blend N Pencil P Paintbrush Shift E Eraser A Airbrush K Ink C Clone widget Enter Set the new value This accepts the new value you typed in a text field and returns focus to canvas. Space , Enter Activate current button or

the GIMP, you'll find that it is packed with features. Paint tools include a paintbrush, airbrush, text tools, clone, blur, and sharpen. You can also transform images with rotation, scaling, flipping, built into GIMP on the main menu include moving, magnification, cropping, transforming, flipping, text, color picking, fill, blending, pencil, paintbrush, eraser, airbrush, clone and convolve. Once you

tab. 3 To select a layer, simply click on the layer 4 To rename a layer, doubleclick on the text of the layer and type in the new name 5 To reorganise layers, drag/move the layer up and down within