[Gimp-user] Text gets enlarged automatically upon ...

[chrisj <forums gimpusers com>]

> Not 100% sure of what you have done but first a guide to those layers
>
> First screenshot
>
> 1. Get this out the way, a non-active text layer, moved partly off the
> canvas, dotted line shows the boundary and if you look at your
> screenshot you see the top of the text slightly clipped.
>
> 2. The text tool options dialogue sets the properties for the text
> layer Font, size, colour, anti-aliasing (does anyone turn that off?)
> kerning, character spacing. Change these values and all text on the
> text layer is affected.
>
> 3. The on-canvas text tool dialogue will initially reflect the Tool
> Options. Selecting characters on canvas and individual (or groups) of
> characters and properties can be changed.  The position of the cursor
> does show the relevant properties.
>
> That is the basics and you do need to understand how Gimp works.  
>
> Second screenshot
>
> 4. Any graphic editing on a text layer and it then becomes a regular
> bitmap. This one the GEGL drop shadow.
>
> 5. The layer dialogue now shows the change from text to raster
> (bitmap).
>
> Third screenshot and a maybe this is what you did.
>
> 6. New day with a different computer or different setup. Open the
> image, use the text tool on the raster layer. Gimp has some text
> information, but has to discard any effects to get back to a text
> layer.
>
> 7. Selecting Edit will discard the drop shadow effect and return to
> original state.
>
> Fourth screenshot
>
> 8. Now have the text layer back, the text icon is there. --- but ---
> The font Albertus used initially is no longer there. (Either removed
> or a different computer.)
>
> 9. The now non-existent font is replaced by the system default ( in
> this case Standard Symbols)
>
> 10. Part of it is still there, the Century font for the magenta 'E' is
> there and is used.
> The on-canvas tool does not control antialiasing.  If the text looks
> 'blocky' then usually it is very small with insignificant
> anti-aliasing and not much can be done about that, or it is the font.
>
> Need a plugin to show text properties that might still remain on a
> raster layer?
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-tools/files/scripts/  
>
> look for text-info-0.1.py well down the list (dated 2014-08-26)


thanks for taking the time to explain - much appreciated 

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