Text functionality in GIMP
From GIMP GUI Redesign
Contents
Internationalization
- full support of all Unicode content
- support for all OpenType features
- multiple writing systems in the same text-box
- right to left and top-down typing
Corrections
- the text content is always accessible and editable
- all applied effects are kept
- binding of graphical output to the original wording is broken
- the user decides on the order things are done (graphics first? -> placeholder text)
Quick plain text
- simple annotations are supported
- can be inserted in a simple fashion (annotation mode/1-click)
Effects
- stroke text
- fill text
- all effects and filter can be applied on the text itself (see "Corrections")
Layout
- full control to the user
- all this is done in the context of the overall work:
- the canvas
- the applied effects
Positioning
- freely positionable on the canvas
- text boxes of any shape
- (rectangular?) box fixed or dynamic
- text along path
- transformation tools
- ?layout grid on text layer?
Typography
- fine grained-control
- presets can be saved
- manual access (M) to open type (OT) features: Glyph palette
Character level
- Font family
- Font style
- size
- Color
- Hinting
- Kerning (M+OT)
- faux bold
- faux italics
- underline
- through-line
- baseline shift
- language
exhaustive OpenType: e.g. ligatures, small caps,
line level
- leading (Line Spacing)
- tracking
paragraph level
- Indent
- justifying
- inter-paragraph spacing
- text-flow