10-07-2015, 11:27 PM | #1 |
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GIMP and diacritics
I'm working with GIMP on a cover for an ebook of one of Charlotte Brontë's books. But I can't work out how to get GIMP to do the eumlaut character.
It's easy to get the eumlaut character in NotePad++ and LibreOffice Write by using Alt+0235, but that doesn't work with GIMP. Is there a way to do diacritics with GIMP? Or will I have to make an image and add it to the GIMP image? |
10-07-2015, 11:34 PM | #2 |
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While Alt+0235 doesn't work in Gimp what will work is to type it into your text editor and then copy and paste it into your Gimp text box.
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10-08-2015, 06:32 AM | #3 |
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10-08-2015, 07:04 AM | #4 |
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BTW, Inkscape has a nice built-in Unicode Glyphs menu.
If you prefer keyboard input, you could enter Unicode characters via the CTRL+U toggle. For example, if you wanted to enter Noël, you'd type No, press CTRL+U, type EB, press space followed by CTRL+U and type l. You could, of course, also select the character directly from the Glyphs dialog box. |
10-08-2015, 08:05 AM | #5 |
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There's always the character map to select and copy to clipboard (then paste in gimp).
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10-10-2015, 03:00 AM | #6 |
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Thanks for the suggestions
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10-20-2015, 12:03 AM | #7 |
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An alternative to (I assume) Window's character map is the very useful BabelMap. Think of it as character map on steroids (to abuse a very badly abused phrase).
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10-20-2015, 12:09 AM | #8 |
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An online resource...here...click on the character you want and it'll copy to your clipboard...then paste into any program.
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10-22-2015, 04:51 AM | #9 |
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I always use Windows "Character Map". Easy way to get it is to do "Windows key +R" and type "charmap".
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10-22-2015, 08:53 AM | #10 |
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It doesn't need to be Windows, though. I use KDE on linux, and there I have "KCharSelect". I assume there's a similar tool on every desktop environment.
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