Vertical Text Rendering Plug-in for GIMP2

Index

Features

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.

Requirement

Install

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.

Details

Run the plug-in from <Filter>/Text/Tategaki...

Basic Setting

Basic Tab contains these settings

Mixed Font

This option allow you to mix another font by type of character. It has 3 type of character. Kana, Ruby and ASCII.

Ruby

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.
rubysame 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
rjaejustify 0:1:0
rjjejustify 1:2:1(JIS X 4051)

Horizontal Number In Vertical Row

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.

Preset Settings

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).

Font Directory

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.

Buttons

Other

Copyright

OHTSUKA, Yoshio <ohtsuka.yoshio@gmail.com>