Vertical Text Rendering Plug-in for GIMP2
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This plug-in is a renderer of vertical text. It enables to create a vertical
layouted text image layer. And Japanese specific layout types such as ruby,
kerning of punctuation mark, mixed font, horizontal row in vertical row, are
impremented.
Tate-gaki means vertical writing in japanese.
- Gimp version 2.8
- Freetype2
Microsoft Window
Get binary distribution. It contains 'tategaki.exe' and 'gimp20-tategaki.po'.
Copy 'tategaki.exe' to your plug-in directory (By default installation,
the folder may be 'C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins'..?
And Copy '*.po' to your locale directory (By default installation,
the folder may be 'C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\share\locale\ja\LC_MESSAGES'
and so on.
Unix/Linux
Get source and do configure, make, make install.
Apple OS X
I don't know about this operating system so much.
But may be configure, make, make install works well too.
Run the plug-in from <Filter>/Text/Tategaki...
Basic Tab contains these settings
- Font
- Select font
- Font Size
- Font size and unit.
- Line Align
- It contains 4 options. Top, Center, Bottom, Both.
- Line Pitch
- Per line pich.
- Yakumono
- It means punctuation mark. Generally Japanese glyph is square.
But the punctuation marks area has harf square. so extra half area are choked up
in japanese publications. this parameter enables you to the composition rule.
This parameter has 3 type options.
BetaGumi option does not allow to choke up spaces between punctuation marks.
All glyphs are layouted accoding to a grid system. Beta-Gumi means flat-typo
and so on in japanese.
YakuTume option choked up spaces between punctuation marks. All punctuation
marks layouted as half square. Yaku-Tume means choked-punctmark and so on.
JISX4051 option is another rule of choked up. Basically it is same as YakuTume.
But when opening branket placed on after close branket, it looks too tight. so
half square placed on between these brankets. This rule is defined in JISX4051.
- Tracking
- character tracking.
- Antialias
- Antialias enabled
This option allow you to mix another font by type of character. It has 3 type of
character. Kana, Ruby and ASCII.
- Kana
- Kana is Hiragana and Katakana which is phonetic of japanese. Japanese has
Kana (phonetic) and Kanji (chinese ideograph). Generally japanese plublishers
use one font for body text without any distinction between kana and kanji.
But some special compposite rule is used by the manga publishers. they adopts
serif font as kana type and san-serif as kanji type for the lines in the word
balloon. This option allows you to composite this rules.
- Ruby
- Ruby is readings for kanji.
- ASCII
- ASCII is alphabet which glyph has half square.
This option allows you to composite the readings for kanji.
Some specific command in the text convert to ruby.
[ruby parentcharacter rubycharacter]
example
[rte TCP TransmissionControlProtocol]
notice: currently half square space is used for separator of arguments!
the ruby commands.
ruby | same as top align |
rt | top align |
rc | center align |
rb | bottom align |
rja | justify 0:1:0 |
rjj | justify 1:2:1 (JIS X 4051) |
cordon spaces when ruby is longer than parent character |
rte | top align |
rce | center align |
rbe | bottom align |
rjae | justify 0:1:0 |
rjje | justify 1:2:1(JIS X 4051) |
This option allows you to horizontal line in a vertical line.
If this option is enabled, the sequence of ascii number or exclamation marks
are turned 90 degrees.
You can save parameters as preset. The preset can load and save any time.
They are saved into the directory named tategaki in the gimp preference
directory (such like .gimp28).
- Load
- load selected preset.
- Save
- save current parameters as new preset.
- Delete
- delete selected preset.
- Update List
- update preset list.
Set the font directory path on FontDir Tab. And close the dialog,
and re-open the tategaki. Then fonts found in the path are enabled to use.
- Modify
- This button enter modify mode, if active layer has the plugin parameter.
In the modify mode, you can change the text and rendering options.
push Apply button to apply changes to the layer.
- Apply
- This button is enabled when modify mode.
It apply your changes to the layer, and back to normal add mode.
- Cancel
- This button is enabled when modify mode.
It allows you to back to normal add mode without any changes to the layer
- Create
- This button create a new layer and draw vertical text rendering.
And clear text field on dialog. When the layer is created, if a selection
exists, the new layer moved into the region. In this way, you can control
a position of layer.
The parameters are attached to the layer, so if you want to to change the
vertical text drawing, select the layer, and push the modify button.
- Close
- This button close dialog.
- Hide Options...
- this option hides parameter widgets.
- Topmost
- This option enables the dialog keep on top.
OHTSUKA, Yoshio <ohtsuka.yoshio@gmail.com>