On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:16 PM, peter sikking <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Jan 26, 2012, at 12:06, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 3:03 PM, peter sikking wrote: >> >>> let's see if I can stimulate this a bit. within the UI team we >>> are discussing about the following: >>> >>> ‘text never is the main purpose in GIMP work (like it is in scribus >>> or libreOffice writer), it only plays a supporting role within >>> a graphical work’ >> >> I must have died and come to hell. In graphic design it's equally >> important to images. > > > now we are getting somewhere. please elaborate a bit. http://www.google.com/search?q=Text+in+art and flip over to images. Text can be the whole subject of an artwork. Or it can be the background... Or the commentary. Or whatever. It's a resource like any other. Yes, you could format your text in a text editor, then try to export it as image and then import again into gimp... but that would be one pretty damn perverted workflow... --Alexia _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
