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Re: Better GIMPing

Under gnome I use a panel applet called "Character Palette" with gives
access to many symbols. You choose the symbol in the applet, and then
you can CTLR-V it into the text editor.

You can also install new fonts in your $HOME/.fonts directory, if that helps.

On 3/8/10, Herbie <technowombat@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm wondering if I'm missing something fundamental here, when using GIMP I
> have occasion to use fonts that have non-standard symbols in them.
>
>  In order to access them in GIMP, I have to fire up Abiword, use Insert >
> Symbol (CTRL + M), Select the appropriate font from the dropdown, find the
> symbol in the symbol table, and either cut and paste it into GIMP, or if
> it's a symbol I'll be using a lot, convert it back into a normal font to
> find out it's 'real' symbol, and then find the UNICODE value for that, then
> when using GIMP's text editor I can do CTRL + SHIFT + U and enter the
> unicode value.
>
>  h.
>
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