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

[Cliff Pratt <enkiduonthenet gmail com>]

Ok, I now have 2.8.22 running in Ubuntu in a VM. That's as close as I can
get to your setup - Debian 9 and Gimp 2.8.?.

This is vanilla, out of the box, no configuration.

I created a new blank image, and selected the text tool. In the Tool
Options the font is "Sans", the size is 18 px and the colour is black.

In the tool options I change the font to "Serif", size to 36 px and the
colour to green. All this in theText Tool Options. *Note that this changes
the default foreground colour to green*.

I click on the canvas and drag to get a text box. Type "Abcd". The font is
"Serif" and the colour is green, and the size shows as 36 px.

I decide that I want the test to be blue and 42 px and the font to be sans.
I make sure the text box is selected.

I click the font button and select "Sans" in the drop down list in the Tool
Options. The text immediately changes to Sans. It stays green and 36 px.

I change the colour to blue and the size to 42 px in the Tool Options.
Those attributes change immediately. Changing one has no effect on the
other and changes are immediate.

*Note that this does not change the default foreground colour which remains
green*.

If I click and drag another text box elsewhere, it takes the size and the
font from the first box, but it shows the colour from the default
foreground when I type some text. But if I type some text and* then *change
the colour in the tool options it doesn't change the default foreground
colour.

I haven't seen it 'reset' any other options. If I had to guess, I'd guess
that you have another, invisible text box, you've clicked in that and it
uses the font and size option from that box. That's why I asked how many
layers you have.

Cheers,

Cliff





On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 10:05 AM Gene Heskett <gheskett shentel net> wrote:

> 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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