Arnold Krille wrote: > 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... Then my inability to make it work that way apparently owes its problem to GIMP's design rather than its feature set. -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
