[Gimp-user] Cannot Add New Text (confirm text editing)

[latinojuan <forums gimpusers com>]

Hey, thanks for the reply.

i think it has something to do w/ the layer underneath being so big that
everywhere that i am clicking, GIMP thinks i want to change the current settings
in the text or something.

because if i click off of the canvas, then it lets me add new text.
apparently, it has something to do w/ the layer size. it seems like all of the
layers are 780x1280...

here is the link to the file i am editing...

http://www.screenlicious.com/2012/12/14/infinity/

http://adf.ly/2793262/infinitypsd

i think i am going to just recreate everything in Inkscape, that program makes a
lot more sense in my mind than GIMP.


> It appears to work as advertised to me, so I'm not sure what the issue
> is.
> Here's the behavior I see:
>
> I created a text layer and then rotated the layer 90 degrees using
> Layer/Transform
>
> When I select the text layer, and select the text tool, and then click
> on the
> text layer in the image, the dialog you refer to pops up.
>
> If I select "Create New Layer", the original text layer is left
> unchanged,
> and a new layer containing the same text as the original layer is
> added,
> and I can edit it as a normal text layer because it is new and has
> only plain
> text and has not been modified in a manner which renders the text
> itself
> "uneditable".  For example, I can change the wording of the text
> itself.
>
> If I select "Edit", the original text layer is reverted to its last
> state
> where it was plain text (in this case, back to horizontal text instead
> of
> the rotated text), and I can edit that as a normal text layer.  As in
> the
> other option, I can change the wording of the text itself.  The
> difference
> between the two buttons is that one leaves the original text as is and
> creates an additional text layer, and the other uses the original
> layer.
>
> Is this not the behavior you are seeing?  
> What is the behavior you are expecting?
> GIMP is currently not able to modify the text itself (i.e. change the
> text
> itself) once it has been modified in a manner such as rotation.
>
> Gary

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