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Interpret text code as image or custom symbol - Piq - 01-13-2024
Hello everyone. I am using GIMP for a project of mine and I need to facilitate the implementation of small pictures/icons when using them in the middle of a text, like you can find in card games.
Let's say I write a text as "This is a [heart] wow", could GIMP interpret [heart] as a symbol/picture and automatically replace it as follow : "This is a
wow" ?Is there a way for GIMP to "translate" a custom text code into an image ? Is there an option or plugin you guys know ? Thank you for your help and sorry for the weird question, google hasn't helped me.
RE: Interpret text code as image or custom symbol - rich2005 - 01-13-2024
Please give your Operating System, it does help when giving suggestions.
You can input a unicode using shift-crtl-u which gives a underlined u character followed by a code.
For card characters see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_cards_in_Unicode
For Windows users first set the input mode to 'simple'
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Then it is shift-ctrl-u then the code then enter. Depending on the font set the colour by selecting the character with the on canvas text tool.
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Linux users, no need to set an input mode, same as above: 20 second animation https://i.imgur.com/X7icqr3.mp4
RE: Interpret text code as image or custom symbol - Piq - 01-14-2024
Thank you for answering but that is not what I want to do.
You are explaining how to insert basic pre existing unicode symbols.
I would like to add custom symbols/pictures summoned by custom text code.
RE: Interpret text code as image or custom symbol - Ofnuts - 01-14-2024
(01-14-2024, 03:23 AM)Piq Wrote: Thank you for answering but that is not what I want to do.
You are explaining how to insert basic pre existing unicode symbols.
I would like to add custom symbols/pictures summoned by custom text code.
It isn't very hard to make some Python code to do the replacement. This can also be solved by a macro in any decent text editor.
However the painful part is to come up with a dictionary mapping names to characters. Unicode characters have standard names but heart is a bit ambiguous so the real names are probably too long for human consumption:
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RE: Interpret text code as image or custom symbol - Piq - 01-14-2024
(01-14-2024, 01:51 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: It isn't very hard to make some Python code to do the replacement. This can also be solved by a macro in any decent text editor.
Lol. What are you talking about ?!
RE: Interpret text code as image or custom symbol - Ofnuts - 01-14-2024
(01-14-2024, 02:27 PM)Piq Wrote:(01-14-2024, 01:51 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: It isn't very hard to make some Python code to do the replacement. This can also be solved by a macro in any decent text editor.
Lol. What are you talking about ?!
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