brown705 Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 I have to create a TIF for a tabletop display, and one of the requirements is that I "outline fonts". I was told that Photoshop has this option when saving the TIF. Does Paint.NET have this option? Can I somehow do this? Michael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toe_head2001 Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 Try this here: http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=5715 Quote (September 25th, 2023) Sorry about any broken images in my posts. I am aware of the issue. My Gallery | My Plugin Pack Layman's Guide to CodeLab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brown705 Posted October 4, 2007 Author Share Posted October 4, 2007 Try this here:http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=5715 I don't think this is the same thing. A rep from the display company told me that this "outline fonts" feature of Photoshop does not actually create a visible outline or border on the text in the image, it simply "informs" the program that the fonts in the image are actually text entries, not just image graphics, so when the image is closed and loaded again, Photoshop recognizes fonts and renders them as vectors, rather than as rasters like the "graphic" part of the image. Michael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drakaan Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 So, better asked, your question is: "Can Paint.NET save part of my image (text, specifically) as vector data, instead of raster data?" The answer to that (as of the latest version) is "nope". Paint.NET presently only natively works on raster images. Once you save your image, the file format stores that data (and some info about blending modes), and that's it. Not to say it won't happen sometime in the future, but when that might be is a question for Rick to answer (and I don't think he's worked out the "when" yet). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Paint.NET presently only natively works on raster images. By design. Quote No. Way. I've just seen Bob. And... *poof!*—just like that—he disappears into the mist again. ~Helio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 The best and simplest way to get around this is to simply put the text on an unflattened layer and save the file in .PDN format. It preserves the text by itself without deleting any information beneath it. Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drakaan Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 The best and simplest way to get around this is to simply put the text on an unflattened layer and save the file in .PDN format. It preserves the text by itself without deleting any information beneath it. True, unless you expect to be able to edit the text later as if you had just opened the text tool (which seems to be part of the answer brown705 is looking for). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 Point granted. But since there's literally no way to do that, the best workaround is to just keep the text easy to get to. :-) If you have a specific set of effects or adjustments to apply to it repeatedly, Pyrochild's Scriptlab plugin could accomplish it. For now. Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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