Vertical Text Rendering Plug-in for GIMP2

Index

Features

This plug-in is used for rendering vertical writing text. It support not only vertical text but japanese specific typesetting rules (ruby, horizontal line in vertical line (called tate-chu-yoko)), emphasized dot mark, combining voice sound marks, unicode ivs and etc... layer.

Requirements

How to Install/a>

Microsoft Window

Get pre-compiled binary. It contains tategaki.exe and gimp20-tategaki.po (japanese locale). Copy tategaki.exe to plug-in folder. By the default, the folder is may be C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins.

Unix/Linux

configure, make, make install.

Apple OS X

Copy tategaki to /Applications/GIMP.app/Contents/Resources/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/

Details

Start from <Filter>/ReddogPlug/Tategaki...
You must set Font directory to use fonts.

Basic

Mixed Font

Allow to use another font according to char class.

Ruby

Ruby Command

Use ruby command to set ruby.
 [ruby parent-string ruby-string]
 
Args Example
 [ruby 京都 きようと]
 

space is used for split tokens, use \ to escape it.

ruby commands
rubysame as rjje
rt top
rc center
rb bottom
rja both(0:1:0)
rjj 1:2:1(JIS X 4051)
If ruby is longer than parent, then parent have empty spaces.
rte top
rce center
rbe bottom
rjaeboth(0:1:0)
rjje1:2:1(JIS X 4051)

Horizontal Line in Vertical Line

It is calld tate-chu-yoko.

Yoko Command

 [yoko string]
 [yoko string trans-rate]
 [yoko string trans-rate alignment]
Example
 [yoko km]
 [yoko !!!!! 1]
 [yoko '90 1 bottom]
 

Dot

Use dot command to put it on side (or top) of chars.

Dot command

It support dot and goma(sesame dot).
 [dot string]
 [goma string]
 [dot 猛犬注意]
 [goma 猛猫注意]
 

Scaling

Use scaling command to shrink strings.

Scale command

 [scale string trans-rateA]
 [scale string trans-rateA trans-rateB]

 [scale 巨大文字 2]
 [scale 長い文字 0.5 1]
 

Tool

Tools for test.

Preset

Enable to save paramters to preset. and restore it.

Font Directory

Set Font directory in FontDir Tab. And then restart tategaki plug-in.

Buttons

その他

Copyright

OHTSUKA, Yoshio <ohtsuka.yoshio@gmail.com>