Re: [Gimp-user] Unable to set font in GIMP 2.8.14

[Akkana Peck <akkana shallowsky com>]

> On 03/27/2016 03:48 PM, Bret Busby wrote:
> > I have tried to resume the project, using GIMP 2.8.14, running on
> > UbuntuMATE 15.10, and, whatever I do, I am now not able to set the
> > font for text to be entered.

Steve Kinney writes:
> The on-canvas text editor works /very/ differently from the earlier
> "in its own box" text editor.  The first thing I would try is
> opening the image, selecting the text layer I want to work on,
> activate the Text tool, and click on the text to bring up the
> on-canvas editor.  Then /select/ all the text with the mouse, then
> /change/ the font name in the small on-canvas control box.

Or go to Tool Options for the text tool and check "Use editor".
Then you'll get a dialog like older GIMPs used that lets you
edit text without selecting it, and you can change the font in
Tool Options as in older versions.

        ...Akkana