Arnold Krille wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 5. Dezember 2007 schrieb david: >> Arnold Krille wrote: >>> Am Mittwoch, 5. Dezember 2007 schrieb Dave Phillips: >>>> I have an image. I want to add simple text to it. I want that text to be >>>> white, not black. >>>> What would you use to do this ? >>> Gimp! >>> Either select the right color before you start creating the text. >>> Or edit the text again and change the colors while editing. >>> Or make the text its own layer and fill the whole layer with the color >>> you want. >>> Or... >>> You could also try to do it on the commandline with "convert", but I >>> think Gimp is _much_ easier to use. >> I prefer adding text to images using Inkscape. Vector-based text comes >> out much better than bitmap based text, at least to me. > > After saving to a pixel-based format (and I believe that dave means > pixel-based when he talks about images) that advantage becomes nill. And gimp > afaik uses the same font-engine as inkscape to render text. And yes, inkscape > renders text! To screen and to the exported pixmap/image... I agree, the final text is rendered as a bitmap. But in Inkscape, that isn't done until you export the image. So in the meantime, you can resize the text and do other stuff with it without losing any quality. -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
