Text functionality in GIMP
From GIMP GUI Redesign
Contents
Internationalization
- full support for everything that is in Unicode
- support for all OpenType features
- multiple writing systems in the same text-box
Typography settings
Character level
- Font family
- Font style
- size
- Color
- Hinting
- Kerning (M+OT)
- faux bold
- faux italics
- underline
- through-line
- baseline shift
- language
exhaustive OpenType: ligatures, small caps,
line level
- leading (Line Spacing)
- Indent
tracking
paragraph level
- justifying
- inter-paragraph spacing
- text-flow
Text-box level
- freely positionable on the canvas
- text boxes of any shape
- box fixed or dynamic
Other
- manual access (M) to open type (OT) features: Glyph palette
Corrections
- the text content is always accessible and editable
- all applied effects are kept (e.g. updated to the new wording)