Text functionality in GIMP

Internationalization

• full support of all Unicode content
• support for all OpenType features
• multiple writing systems in the same text-box

Corrections

• the text content is always accessible and editable
• all applied effects are kept (e.g. updated to the new wording)

Layout

The user must have full control on all levels

Positioning

• freely positionable on the canvas
• text boxes of any shape
• (rectangular?) box fixed or dynamic
• text along path

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: e.g. ligatures, small caps,

line level

• leading (Line Spacing)
• Indent

tracking

paragraph level

• justifying
• inter-paragraph spacing
• text-flow

Other

• manual access (M) to open type (OT) features: Glyph palette
• simple annotations are supported