[Gimp-user] Special Characters In Text

[rich404 <forums gimpusers com>]

> My previous work included special characters such as heart,  diamond,
> club and spade in test relating to bridge hands.. I just tried to
> update this work could not find an option to include these characters.
>
> My system is Debian stretch running GIMP 2.8.18.The original work was
> done on 6/15/2015 so certainly a much older version of GIMP

You might have just caught a Gimp 2.6 with Debian 6 (EOL 2016), but that image
has the blocks of text flattened to a bitmap - not really editable. There is
also an active selection in your image that needs promoting to a layer, if you
want to progress.

Adding the card symbols. Any number of ways: The linux orthodox way, using
unicode U plus a character code.

see the attached file.

Other ways. 

Do all your text in some other application such as LibreOffice which has a
special symbol facility then copy/paste into the Gimp text tool.

Use a character map and copy/paste individual symbols into the Gimp text tool.

examples: https://i.imgur.com/zSuJxze.jpg

Then the quick-n-dirty way. Make brushes for the 4 shapes and paint in as a
"stamp"

Attachments:
* http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/1071/original/suites.xcf

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