#!/usr/bin/env python # Copyright (C) 2005 Adrian Likins # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. # # Renders each glyph of a font into a brush. Handy for say, creating alot # of brushes from a dingbat font. # # TODO: # Need a better way to find where to save brushes (stuff coming in devel gimp) # Would be cool to be able to query the font info and find out which glyphs are in the font # since a lot of dingbats are incomplete. Maybe use pygtk->pango/etc? # Would be cool to make some image hoses. Maybe one brush for a font with the char changing # with direction/etc. import os import string import gimp from gimpfu import * def get_gimp_version(): # assume version like "gimp-2.2.8" ver = pdb.gimp_version() parts = ver.split(".") # print parts major_minor_ver = string.join(parts[0:2], ".") return major_minor_ver def font_to_brushes(font, chars, size): #print font, chars, size, brushdir # ugh, the font selector widget seems to want to return a PDB_STRING of format "fontname fontsize" # so, we just strip that bit off... parts = font.split(" ") if parts[-1].isdigit(): fontparts = parts[:-1] font = string.join(fontparts, " ") brushdir = "%s/.gimp-%s/brushes/" % (os.path.expandvars("$HOME"), get_gimp_version()) for char in chars: (width, height, asc, dsc) = pdb.gimp_text_get_extents_fontname(char, size, 1, font) img = gimp.Image(width, height, RGB) drawable = gimp.Layer(img, "test", width, height, RGB_IMAGE, 100, NORMAL_MODE) img.add_layer(drawable, 0) pdb.gimp_edit_fill(drawable, BACKGROUND_FILL) font_layer = pdb.gimp_text_fontname(img, drawable, 0.0, 0.0, char, 0, 1, size, 1, font) pdb.gimp_floating_sel_anchor(font_layer) pdb.plug_in_autocrop(img, drawable) pdb.gimp_image_convert_grayscale(img) name = "%s_%s_%s" % (font, char, size) filename = "%s/%s.gbr" % (brushdir,name) pdb.file_gbr_save(img, drawable, filename, filename, 20, name) pdb.gimp_image_delete(img) pdb.gimp_brushes_refresh() return register( "python_fu_font_to_brushes", "Convert a font to brushes", "Convert a font to brushes", "Adrian Likins", "Adrian Likins", "2005", "/Xtns/Python-Fu/Font To Brushes", "", [ (PF_FONT, "font", "Font to convert to brushes", "Sans"), (PF_STRING, "glyphs", "Characters", "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUV123456789"), (PF_FLOAT, "size", "Size of Font", 20.0), # (PF_STRING, "brushdir", "Brush folder", "%s/.gimp-%s/brushes/" % (os.path.expandvars("$HOME"), get_gimp_version())), ], [], font_to_brushes) main()