Copying special characters into GIMP
Jeff
I've been having a hard time getting special characters (from say the
font "Webdings") into GIMP; I'm using Windows XP, and if I use the
utility "character map" (under Programs > Accessories > System tools)
to view all the characters available in Webdings, I can't do a simple
copy and paste from character map into GIMP for some of the available
characters (some work, some don't). For instance, try the character
with character code "0x9A" in Webdings--it won't copy into GIMP.
I would appreciate any help!
Thanks,
Jeff
Penguiniator
One thing you might want to try in such an instance is to paste
the character into a word processor, set the font size to
whatever you want, and use the GIMP File/Acquire/Screen Shot...
feature to capture an image of the character. It won't be
treated like text, but it will allow you to get it into the
image.
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regards
Michael Soibelman
I don't use windows anymore but I do appreciate the OP's question. After
reading the post I was using Gimp (OpenSuSE 10.1 + Gimp 2.3.10) to make a
corporate logo for inclusion in a soon to be web site. I needed a
trademark symbol so I opened up kword and used the 'insert special
character' function to insert the trademark character. Then I copied it
and, in the Gimp text input menu, pasted it. Voila! There it was in my
image... Cool !! Thanks for asking. Why do I spend so much time reading
and answering other peoples questions ?? Because I often can use the
knowledge I gain while trying to figure out the answers...
Thanks again...:-)
David Wilson Clarke
> I don't use windows anymore but I do appreciate the OP's question.
> After reading the post I was using Gimp (OpenSuSE 10.1 + Gimp
> 2.3.10) to make a
> corporate logo for inclusion in a soon to be web site. I needed a
> trademark symbol so I opened up kword and used the 'insert special
> character' function to insert the trademark character. Then I
> copied it
> and, in the Gimp text input menu, pasted it. Voila! There it was
> in my
> image... Cool !!
You may be able to use KcharSelect, which comes as part of
kdeutils3-extra.
This is similar to what the OP was doing in Windows, which I'm
surprised didn't work. Could the OPs problem be different charsets?
Say the Char picker in iso8851-1 and gimp in UTF8?
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Dave Clarke
Michael Schumacher
> I've been having a hard time getting special characters (from say the
> font "Webdings") into GIMP;
The standard way to enter special characters in GIMP (and other
GTK+-based applications) is to use Ctrl+Shift+<unicode-character-code>
For example,
Ctrl+Shift+2665
will return a filled heart.
HTH,
Michael
David Wilson Clarke
The compose key also works for me, although this only gives you a
subset of special characters.
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Dave Clarke
Jeff
> The standard way to enter special characters in GIMP (and other
> GTK+-based applications) is to use Ctrl+Shift+<unicode-character-code>
>
> For example,
>
> Ctrl+Shift+2665
>
> will return a filled heart.
>
>
> HTH,
> Michael
Thanks for the tip--I tried it with the font Times Roman and got the
filled heart like you said; but your method still doesn't work for the
character "0x9A" in Webdings! As one might suspect, the characters in
Webdings that will copy and paste over can also be entered by your
method, but the characters that can't be simply copied and pasted over
can't be entered by your method into GIMP. And yet I successfully
copied and pasted the "0x9A" character into MIcrosoft Word, so it
definitely seems to be GIMP's problem and does not have anything to do
with the Character Map utility I'm using.
Any other ideas of how to get the character directly entered into GIMP
without having to resort to importing it as a graphic (i.e. screenshot)
from another program (as described in one of the previous posts)?
Jeff
Am I missing something, because Isn't kdeutils3-extra only for Unix and
Linux operating environments? I'm trying to do this in Windows.
David Wilson Clarke
Yes, I was replying to Michael here.
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Dave Clarke
Michael Soibelman
> Jeff wrote:
>
>>
>> David Wilson Clarke wrote:
>>> Michael Soibelman wrote:
>>>
>>> > I don't use windows anymore but I do appreciate the OP's
> Dave Clarke
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Thanks David. I just put a link on my desktop for KCharSelect. Suddenly
I'm finding Gimp to be much more useful. Before, I was creating text as
vectors in Sketch and importing as '.eps' files. Now I don't need to do
that anymore....
Thanks again.
Joal Heagney
The 0x9A is in octal base, rather than decimal base. Gimp may not
support octal base entry.
Try converting 0x9A to the decimal 154 and using that instead.
Joal Heagney
Per Larsen
Since octal base implies the digits 0-7 I suppose you mean hexadecimal
base (digits 0-f, and which also matches the decimal value 154).
PerL
Jeff
> The 0x9A is in octal base, rather than decimal base. Gimp may not
> support octal base entry.
>
> Try converting 0x9A to the decimal 154 and using that instead.
In the GIMP text editor, I tried doing a "shift-ctrl" plus entering the
character code as 154, and I'm still not getting the correct 0x9A
Wingdings character that I'm after.
David Wilson Clarke
I don't have the wingdings font, so I'm not sure what the character
you want looks like. This character only has the value 0x9A in the
wingdings font. It may, however exist as a standardised symbol.
Unicode is a standard for encoding characters, regardless of font.
There is a dingbats section in Unicode from 0x2700 to 0x27BF. You can
find the character chart here, with a load of other char typed (it's
a pdf):
<http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html#CombiningDiacriticalMarks>
If your character is here (finally I get to the point), maybe you
could enter the Unicode value, and that may work.
Sorry, all a bit complicated.
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Dave Clarke
David Wilson Clarke
Miscellaneous Symbols (0x2600-26FF) looks posibly useful too.
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Dave Clarke