If you use a script or handwritten type font with the Artistic Text tool, the overlapping segments of each character is rendered incorrectly. For example, this font will reproduce the problem: https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Damion Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create new image 2. Add Artistic Text. 3. Change text font to handwritten or script-type text, or use the following font: https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Damion Actual Results: The intersections between characters are not filled in. Expected Results: The intersections between characters are filled in.
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Hi Arron, Thanks for your report. We'll have to keep this in mind when working on the next generation text tool: https://phabricator.kde.org/T1004
Git commit 059d14b2d4853fae96bc07b930fc9ecf0495a534 by Boudewijn Rempt. Committed on 30/03/2016 at 23:48. Pushed by rempt into branch 'master'. Not that the artistic text tool isn't broken in lots of ways... M +4 -1 plugins/flake/artistictextshape/ArtisticTextShape.cpp http://commits.kde.org/krita/059d14b2d4853fae96bc07b930fc9ecf0495a534
Thanks Boudewijn. Is there a bounty I can donate to for work / improvements on the text tool? It seems anemic in general and could use some love, very specifically.
Hi Arron! If everything goes according to plan, we'll start our next kickstarter campaign May 1st. That campaign will have two big goals: a new text tool and making our vector layers svg2-compatible. You're totally right that both our text tools are in a really bad shape: in the case of the artistic text tool it's because the maintainer left the KOffice project years and years ago, and in the case of the multi-line text tool because it's Calligra Words in disguise. If you don't mind the Dutch headlines, here's an overview of what I _want_ to do for the text tool: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qZ-o5kjNj9bl5EC-mO0u7m5pMdJ6ckUidSsSU30qK5I/edit?usp=sharing
Thanks for the information, Boudewijn! I'll keep an eye out for the Kickstarter.