08-05-2023, 12:03 PM
To add to Ofnuts post:
You put your font, the one I just downloaded is BiauKai.ttf in your Gimp fonts folder. Do you know where that is ?
You need to open the Gimp preferences and in MacOS I think that is in the first tab "Gimp", look for Folders > Fonts and the path to the fonts folder is shown. It might be something like /Users/MyName/Library/Application Support/Gimp/2.10/fonts, but might be different depending on MacOS version. This is my linux preferences.
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Just throwing this in as a possible. It depends what shows. If you get the Chinese Characters shown, great. With my linux installation I either get european characters (1) or code symbols. For this screenshot I get round that by making my own font (2) using Fontforge font editor (a quick copy-paste exercise).
Once you have your character showing (3), then it is the same for any font.
(4) Layer -> Text to Path and in a new layer Edit -> Stroke Path
(5) If you are careful, paint in parts of the character after Select -> From Path
You put your font, the one I just downloaded is BiauKai.ttf in your Gimp fonts folder. Do you know where that is ?
You need to open the Gimp preferences and in MacOS I think that is in the first tab "Gimp", look for Folders > Fonts and the path to the fonts folder is shown. It might be something like /Users/MyName/Library/Application Support/Gimp/2.10/fonts, but might be different depending on MacOS version. This is my linux preferences.
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Just throwing this in as a possible. It depends what shows. If you get the Chinese Characters shown, great. With my linux installation I either get european characters (1) or code symbols. For this screenshot I get round that by making my own font (2) using Fontforge font editor (a quick copy-paste exercise).
Once you have your character showing (3), then it is the same for any font.
(4) Layer -> Text to Path and in a new layer Edit -> Stroke Path
(5) If you are careful, paint in parts of the character after Select -> From Path