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strycat, on 09 August 2012 - 02:03 PM, said:
I just wanted to say that I'm having this same problem with the font Castellar (http://fontzone.net/...ails/Castellar/).
Other programs I'm using like libreoffice have no problems making it italics. I was about give up and to do a screen capture from that when I saw the suggestion to try inkscape.
Inkscape also easily made the font italics. I then exported to bitmap and opened it in the gimp and finally cut and pasted it into the image I wanted it in. I probably should have tried RobA's script but I didn't.
A big thanks to everyone who posted in this thread it was quite helpful.
I do hope the gimp developers will implement this feature.
Other programs I'm using like libreoffice have no problems making it italics. I was about give up and to do a screen capture from that when I saw the suggestion to try inkscape.
Inkscape also easily made the font italics. I then exported to bitmap and opened it in the gimp and finally cut and pasted it into the image I wanted it in. I probably should have tried RobA's script but I didn't.
A big thanks to everyone who posted in this thread it was quite helpful.
I do hope the gimp developers will implement this feature.
Yes, {Open|Libre}Office can italicize it, but it will do exactly the same as what you could do in Gimp, it will apply a Shear transform (and in Gimp you could fine tune that). The same applies to underscore (with Gimp you can adjust height/thickness). The difficult thing to do in Gimp is boldface, but Office isn't good at that either, it completely fills the letters and so destroys the general look of the font (and I'm pretty sure it would not work correctly with most other fancy fonts).
IMHO, text in Gimp is supposed to be really good looking(*), and this completely rules out algorithmically generated italics (good-bye kerning) and boldface (good-bye baseline).
(*) after all this is why you are using that specific font, right?
