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

["Rick Strong" <rnstrong primus ca>]

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.

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
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