Re: [Gimp-user] 2.8.22 is wacky

[Michael Schumacher <schumaml gmx de>]

On 05/25/2017 05:17 AM, Nate Owens wrote:

> *Selecting the move tool always selects the path tool instead*
> Selecting the path tool also opens the path tool
> *How to open the move tool?*

How are you trying to select the tool - keyboard? mouse? Some other
pointing device? Something else entirely?

> *In earlier versions the text along a path tool worked great...*

Um... there never was a Text along Path tool, actually (always just the
"create a path which attempts to follow another path, and is shaped lite
the letters of the text".

> you could *choose the baseline for the path*, even run it along a circle
> Then you could save or export the results cleanly as xcf or other formats
> Now the only sensible way to do something remotely resembling this is to
> use the cage transform tool and then it is a nightmare with many steps to
> get the file saved or exported in any usable way

You could be remembering something different, maybe third-party plug-in.
If you still got a XCF file with text shaped in this way, it would be
good if you can share it. Also, anything you know about when this was
possible can be helpful.

> *Is there a currently functional stable version of Gimp with an accurate
> updated user manual?*

The current stable version is GIMP 2.8, and the user manual at
http://docs.gimp.org/en/ is updated daily from the contents of its
version-tracking repository. It is still likely not complete, and I'd
like to know what you are missing the most there.

What we are currently lacking is up-to-date released packages of the
user manual.

> I tried Gimp 2.9.? and it was even worse.

GIMP 2.9 is a development version, and to really get the most of it you
should follow development closely and try to keep your 2.9.x version up
to date.

It isn't a stable release, and thus not actually intended for production
use, but I am aware that many people use it to great success.

> *What are the options to retrieve a usable Gimp?*

Tell us what doesn't work (like you did here), and then help us to
figure out why it doesn't work for you.


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Michael
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