Text functionality in GIMP

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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

full control to the user

Positioning

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

Typography

  • 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


Other

  • simple annotations are supported