Howto Make LARGE fonts in Gimp?
cayenne
I'm playing with Gimp...very newbie to any graphical tools. I'm
working on a tutorial at:
http://www.xach.com/gimp/tutorials/punch-out/step2.html
It says that on a new layer, to use the text tool to type in a large
font a word. I've double clicked the text tool, and checked the
dynamic text box...which I thought would do the trick. In the text box
when I type in my word...I set it to be like 128 or even higher px.
However, it does not seem to make the text any bigger than what looks
to be about 33 pt. I've tried charter and utopia fonts...not working.
Can someone help me to figure howto make fonts big? I'm going to need
to do this to try to make some logos.
Thanks in advance
chilecayenne
robertS
working with "regular" text. You can increase the size there too.
cayenne
> Works fine for me. You might try unchecking the dynamic text button and
> working with "regular" text. You can increase the size there too.
>
I've tried this...but, no use. I can't seem to get text of any large
size...
I'm using Gentoo...did an emerge of freefonts. So, I should think I
have a good selection of fonts to choose from....
In other editors I've owned..you could type in text, then, use the
pointer to stretch them to the size you need....I don't see anything
like that here.
Can someone maybe talk me through an example of trying to type a word
that is say, 200 px in size?
Thank you,
CC
Otto Lang
> Can someone maybe talk me through an example of trying to type a word
> that is say, 200 px in size?
Here it works perfectly with ``use dyamic text''. Most standard tt-fonts
only go up to 72pt. With the dynamic tool I can scale them to each size.
Another way to scale the fonts is the ``rotation, scaling, ...'' tool.
But here the results are not very nice.
> Thank you,
>
> CC
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Marc Nadeau
> cayenne <chilec...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Can someone maybe talk me through an example of trying to type a word
>> that is say, 200 px in size?
>
> Here it works perfectly with ``use dyamic text''. Most standard tt-fonts
> only go up to 72pt. With the dynamic tool I can scale them to each size.
>
> Another way to scale the fonts is the ``rotation, scaling, ...'' tool.
> But here the results are not very nice.
>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> CC
>
> ./ol
As the owner of a font-related site i made thousands of font samplings using
the gimp (1.2.3).
Scaling as much as desired works perfectly with 'dynamic text' on or off.
Just type the wanted size in the appropriate dialog box or scrollbox.
TrueType fonts are vectorial (bézier curves) and scale as big as you wish
but because of their quite simple scaling algorythme most of them do not
look so nice when too big or too small.
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
> Can someone maybe talk me through an example of trying to type a word
> that is say, 200 px in size?
1. Create or load an image which is large enough for the big word
2. Choose the text tool
3. Click somewhere on the image -> Text Tool dialog appears
4. Enter your word/text
5. Choose desired font
6. Choose "pixels" instead of "points"
7. Enter "200" into the size box manually
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch