gimp/plug-ins/gdyntext

GIMP Dynamic Text -- image filter plug-in for The GIMP program
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GDynText  1.4.3 
Copyright (C) 1998,1999 Marco Lamberto
E-mail:   lm@geocities.com
Web page: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/1474/gimp/

Legal stuff
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Intro
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GIMP Dynamic Text is a GIMP plug-in that works like the text tool but
allows you writing multi-line text and made you able of modifying it later
as you want (text/font/font size/color/...).
However I hope that a feature like this will be available on GIMP 1.2 as a
standard tool.

GIMP version required:    1.0.4 or 1.1 (see compiling for GIMP 1.1 below)
Plug-in menu path:        <Image>/Filters/Render/Dynamic Text
PDB function:             plug-in-dynamic-text
Suggested hotkey:         Alt+T

This is my second plug-in, the first was an xvpict loader now embedded into
the Guash plug-in of Shuji Narazaki.
It's rather far from being a complete work and I've just starded in playing
with GTK+ ... it's a really powerful but also a complex toolkit for a
programmer that had used only Java AWT for opening windows on X11!

Compiling for GIMP 1.0
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Simply run 'make install'. Optionally if something goes wrong you could edit
the shipped Makefile.

NOTE:
  Since GDynText 1.4.3 the gtk+ 1.0 and glib 1.0 compatibility was probably
  broken, now gimp >= 1.0.4 with gtk+ 1.2 and glib 1.2 are required for running
  GDynText.

Compiling for GIMP 1.1
======================

You must edit the Makefile and change GIMP11BIN in order to reflect the path
where the GIMP 1.1 binary and gimptool are installed then you could run
'make install11'.

Thanks
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* Glade, the GTK+ gui builder, was a good starting point for learning how to
  write GTK+ applications.
* The "Writing a GIMP plug-in" tutorial written by Kevin Turner help me in
  figuring better how the GIMP plug-in system works.
* I've taken few lines of code for the preview initialization from the bumpmap
  plug-in written by Federico Mena Quintero and Jens Lautenbacher.
* The GIMP Team ;)

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