Am Donnerstag, 6. Dezember 2007 schrieb david: > 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. Same for gimp. :-) Since some versions text is floated in a way that you can edit it later on which means that it is not really rendered unless you do something with it that breaks it... Arnold -- visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/ --- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a rm / -rf. Or ask your administrator to do so...
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