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

[Ruben Safir <ruben mrbrklyn com>]

On 10/2/20 20:24, Ruben Safir wrote:
> On 10/2/20 5:05 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > 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 8
>
>
> Yeah - that has made me crazy as well.  The text tool's behavior is
> completely unpredictable.  Everytime you touch it it does the unexpected
> and it goes back to some default that it pulled from god knows where.
>
> Mine has been stuck on 65 px like it is stuttering.
>
> There used to be a decent scripfu text widget in the filters that is gone.
>
> And one needs a drop down menu for font.  Who knows what fonts are
> installed.  In 1998 I did this with the GIMP
>
> http://images.mrbrklyn.com/brooklyn/tourmap.png
> http://images.mrbrklyn.com/.cache/640x435-bars2.jpg
>
> Just try doing that now.
>
>
> or something like this

This problems continues, BTW


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