Image composition Q

[Christian Brink]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> I am in need of a program such as Gimp, but with a better developed text 
> entry similar to XaraEx or OOoWriter, but which can directly save the 
> result as a .png image, something writer can't do.  Gimp can, but the 
> font choices suck a very high vacuum.
>
> XaraEx looks like it was the thing, till I found that once the text has 
> been planted, it appears not to be movable for setting up a pleasing 
> composition.
>
> Do we have such a tool that can write text and manipulate its size and 
> position and then save in a png/jpg/etc image format capable of being 
> loaded into 4L-gui?  I want to write cd/dvd labels.
> I use the the Freetype plug-in for Gimp - It does a much better job rendering fonts and gives you far more formatting text options (and it creates a layer by default).
>   

As for font choices there are many free (legal free, PD) TT font sites 
available, just dump them into your ~./fonts