This Toshiba Satellite Pro 4270 originally belonged to my Aunt but the LCD screen died and she ended up getting another new laptop. So this was how I ended up with a headless laptop and decided to install MythTV (without TV tuner features) as a media center box that can play DVDs, VCDs and movies off my file server.
I’ve been really pleased with the ASUS A6J since the day I got it which was almost a year ago. Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06 and Edgy Eft 6.10 both worked great directly from installation but Feisty 7.04 has been plagued with problems after problems on this laptop.
Alot of websites have given tutorials about how to justify text in GIMP Image Editor. What most of them forgot to mentioned is that you can align the text left, right or center but not justified even though it has the button there. This was tested in GIMP 2.2 and a current version 2.3. Justified text makes then text line up on both the left and right border of the text box and evenly adjusting the line spacing between the letters in each line to accomplish this.
It turns out from this forum post that its just a placeholder and a patch can be used to enable it. This article also talks about a proposal to implement the justify feature as part of Google’s Summer of code 2007.
Anyway, here is a simple method of justifying text in GIMP without patches.
- You need to have a new text box for each line
- Manually ensure that each line is almost the same length or shorter than desired
- Then in the text box properties section, look for the “Letter Spacing” (See screen shot on right) setting and adjust it until all the lines are visibly the same and inline
Brinley Ang is a software engineer, sysadmin, coder, geek boy, jedi knight fragger, caffine addict, deaf meloncholic and rockstar wannabe. Listens to the sex pistols and a wide assortment of heavy metal.
