Re: Better GIMPing

[Herbie <technowombat@yahoo.com>]

Thanks Erich,
 		I went to install that, but as I don't run GNOME, debian 
was wanting to download most of the GNOME system just to run that one app. 
I then found gucharmap, which I'm guessing is something similar? Gives me 
control codes and so forth. Saves me firing up Abiword.

h.

On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Erich Schroeder wrote:

> 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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