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

Hm, how many text layers do you have?

If I create a text layer I can create it with the particular font and font
size. When I create another text layer, I can set the font, etc in the new
layer to something different. If I then decide that the font is wrong in
the first text layer, and I select that text layer, it comes up with the
font and font size that I selected in the first place ie, what it was when
I left that layer. If I go back to the other text layer it shows the font
and font size that it was when I left THAT layer.

So
1) I create a text box/layer (call it One), set the font to something, and
the font size to 16 pts. I type something eg One. [I create a text box by
clicking on the text tool, and clicking on the canvas.]
2) I create a second text box/layer. (call it Two). I set the font to 64
pts. I type something eg Two. [I create a new text box by clicking
somewhere outside the first text box.]
3) I decide that the font size in One is too small. I switch to that text
layer [By clicking in the text box.]. *The font size now shows 16 pts*. I
change the font size. I don't delete the text. I just change the font size
(to say 32 pts).
4) I switch to layer Two. *The font size now shows 64 pts*.
5) If I switch between text layers the font size alternates between 16 and
64 pts.

Each 'line of text' is in a separate text layer. Each text layer retains
the font, font size and other attributes that it had when you last left it.
Any new layer contains the attributes of the previous text layer that you
created.

Cheers,

Cliff


On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 11:02 PM Rick Strong <rnstrong primus ca> 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.

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



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