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

[Ruben Safir <ruben mrbrklyn com>]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 10:57:44AM +1300, Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list wrote:
> There's not enough information there to tell what is going wrong. Where are
> you making the changes, on screen or in the tool options, for example. As I
> recall there have been similar discussions in the past, and it may pay to
> look at teh archives.


The archives don't have a decent search mechanism other than google and
it seems google don't care about mailing lists any more 

> Cheers,
>
> Cliff
>
> On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 3:00 PM Ruben Safir <ruben mrbrklyn com> wrote:
>
> > 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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