Re: [Gimp-user] text mode, need instruct sequence

[Gene Heskett <gheskett shentel net>]

On Friday 02 October 2020 21:02:35 Rick Strong wrote:

> My eyes are nearly 80 years old, I am going blind in one of them and I
> can easily read 18 pt type. Anyway, you need something larger. OK. Try
> double clicking on the "A" tool and setting the type specs in the
> dialogue/tab that comes up on the right. Screenshot attached. I assume
> you are using the latest version.
No, stretch is 2.8, so totally different view, that double-click worked. 
But the save didn't, on rerunning orvile it was back to 18px. But it 
seems to have saved for the session, which is a huge help.  Thank you.
> Rick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Heskett
> Sent: Friday, October 02, 2020 7:38 PM
> To: Rick Strong
> Cc: gimp-user-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] text mode, need instruct sequence
>
> On Friday 02 October 2020 18:36:07 you wrote:
> > Gene,
> >
> > By my reckoning, an 18 px letter is less than 1 pt high on an 300
> > dpi print—virtually invisible. Try setting the text size to 18 pts.
> > (POINTS, not pixels) to be legible.
>
> I have done that, Rick, but 18 pts isn't near big enough for older
> eyes either, so you backspace to get rid of the dust specs, look up to
> the text box and its reset to 18px. Frustrating is a very weak
> description. You spend 10 minutes bounceing from one place in that
> tool, to another trying to get it to keep what you selected long
> enough to type one line of text. Repeat for every line of text you
> want to overlay on a pix.
>
> > Good luck.
>
> I don't need luck, I need instructions that work, please read my whole
> message.
>
> > RS
>
> My whole point is that there is no way to set the defaults AND setting
> anything else restores the default of 18 px, switches it back to sans
> font, and the selected color back to black.  Changing ANY of those
> settings should change them at the very least for the lifetime of the
> current session. ANY TIME YOU CHANGE ONE THING, IT RESETS EVERYTHING
> ELSE BACK TO THE DEFAULTS. INCLUDING CHANGING WHERE YOU WANT TO PUT IT
> BY LEFT CLICKING THE SCREEN WHERE YOU WANT TO START TYPING. And if
> your put it here click is too high, the box disappears under the
> friggin ruler at the top of the screen so that you can't see if its
> decided to restore all the defaults
>
> Since you have not addressed my main bitch at all, how about telling
> us how to change the text defaults to something that IS usable and by
> makeing those the defaults, 90% of the frustrations would be
> addressed. Maybe _you_ have a sequence that works, but no one has told
> the users. Put it in a format I can print and tape to the wall for
> next time.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gene Heskett
> > Sent: Friday, October 02, 2020 5:05 PM
> > To: gimp-user-list gnome org
> > Subject: [Gimp-user] text mode, need instruct sequence
> >
> > Greetings all;
> >
> > I, like Ruben Safir, am A. tired of the lack of good docs, and B.
> > the churn in how it works. I just had occasion to caption some pix
> > as an aid to my wife who is not a computer whiz, in setting up a
> > piano keyboard, and the air was quite blue around me by the time I
> > got done because every time I tried to set one option in the text
> > panel it reset everything else back to the defaults.  And an 18 px
> > black character isn't more than a visible dot on an 8x10 printout,
> > so I click on the size and add a zero to make 180 px. Then I am
> > going to put it in a black area of the printout, so I select the
> > color white and hit enter and it resets the size to 18px and the
> > font back to sans from sans serif. Thats bs at its finest.  So is
> > the text box when its under the top ruler and you can't see that its
> > decided to reset everything back to the defaults. So please tell me
> > the correct sequence of key or mouse strokes to set that up and if
> > possible set it as the defaults so I don't have to get so frustrated
> > just to add a line or 3 of text captions to a picture. You've made 4
> > hours of very frustrating work out of captioning 6 photo's that
> > ought to be 3 minutes plus print time each. If this worked. But
> > IMNSHO it sucks dead toads thru soda straws. So please make it
> > _Just_Work_, write some docs that tell us how to use it, and then
> > stop the churn.
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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