On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Marc Lehmann wrote: > Yes, you could use Gimp->text_get_extents to get the position of the > baseline, and the maximum size (measure XygjZ79 or something similar to be > sure ;) then you can resize the layer after it was created. > > Don´t ask me for details, you have to play around a bit. (btw, if you > happen to write a sub like gimp_text_ext_iso (...) to do this I can > include it in Gimp::Util). > I came across the same problem a little while back when writing a script to render a logo with each letter in a different color. What I ended up doing was using gimp-text-get-extents to get the size of each letter, keeping track of the max height and storing the width in a array for later. After this pass I resized my image appropriately. On the second pass I used gimp-text to render: (string-append this-char " " str) where, this-char is the current character, and str is the whole string. I then clear the area after this-char by using the character width stored from the first pass. The spaces rendered between this-char and str are a attempt (partially successful, still get dags sometimes) to overcome a problem caused by different inter-character spacings. Not exactly a elegant solution but it works (mostly). -Dave
