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Cammera
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Joined: 27 June 2017 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5 |
![]() Topic: pixel art software with good text toolsPosted: 18 June 2020 at 10:07pm |
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No, seriously, is there any pixel art software with good text tools? Of what I've tested I found:
-Grafx2: Almost perfect, but can't do multiple lines -Aseprite: vector fonts only, no pixel fonts, no multiline. I have to go and fix kerning and characters always. -Lospec pixel editor/pyxeledit/piskel: No text tools at all. |
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Hapiel
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Joined: 30 June 2023 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3266 |
![]() Posted: 19 June 2020 at 1:14am |
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GraphicsGale isn't too bad, but you have to find the right sizes for bitmap fonts if you want them correctly displayed
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DawnBringer
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Joined: 11 August 2024 Online Status: Offline Posts: 568 |
![]() Posted: 19 June 2020 at 2:27am |
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In GrafX2; Use Ctrl-Return to add a linebreak.
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yrizoud
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Joined: 03 May 2021 Location: France Online Status: Offline Posts: 343 |
![]() Posted: 19 June 2020 at 7:48am |
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There is still much room for improvement in Grafx2.
I would mostly like an (optional) setting 'horizontal wrap at X pixels', wrapping entire words (cutting words is rarely useful). Very nice when you have to fit text in a 400px column. And many fonts would benefit from a setting of horizontal and vertical margins (between characters and lines, respectively). Negative vertical margins would be very useful for vector fonts especially, as they always have huge empty space between lines, some +/- buttons would let you squeeze the lines just as you need. |
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Cammera
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Joined: 27 June 2017 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5 |
![]() Posted: 21 June 2020 at 6:35pm |
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I found a middle point by using bitmap fonts abitmap fonts at a system level, but the formats in the repo I linked don't seem to be supported by grafx2 directly- support as a whole is spotty and shifts on a per-application basis, but I'll take what I can get.
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