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

[rich404 <forums gimpusers com>]

> Also, there seems to be a dialog box above the canvas, and the the
> tool options below. The box above the canvas (with Arial Heavy) seems
> to be controlling the text, but the tool options box (calabri bold)
> below has the anti-alias checkbox, why are there two? And how can I
> apply anti-alias to the text, if the above one is controlling the
> edit? see attached image

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.

> And how can I apply anti-alias to the text, if the above one 
> is controlling the edit

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)




 


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* https://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/1180/original/03-text.jpg
* https://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/1181/original/04-text.jpg

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