Typing in pinyin in the GIMP text tool

[kake]

Hello! I want to make myself an icon along the lines of the pretty-coloured text ones that blnchflr did a tutorial for, but I've run across a small problem.

I'm using GIMP 2.6.7 on OS X 10.6.2, and I cannot get the text tool to let me type in pinyin, nor can I get it to admit that I have Chinese fonts installed. Has anyone here got any experience in making this work?

Edited to add: Sorted thanks to ewx and dragonwolf (see comments).

Comments

[ewx]

Try middle-click pasting.

[kake]

It worked, it worked, it worked, you genius! Thank you!

(I had to look up how to do middle-click pasting — I found it in X11 Preferences -> "Emulate three button mouse", then hold down Option when clicking.)

[ewx]

There is an OSX-native GTK+ under development, so we might get a Mac Gimp that’s better integrated at some point in the future. Wouldn’t like to say when though!