It's unreasonable to use gimp to recreate a logo of maybe two to three words? I 
certainly don't need a full blown text editor for that and would look elsewhere 
when I do. Not sure if you read my reply, but I only spoke about an existing 
feature that is unusable in certain situations such as being zoomed in while 
trying to get an alignment correct. Unless this is by design for some reason, I 
would think this would be considered a bug or an incomplete feature. I just 
wanted to bring light to it as others have in the hopes that a solution might 
be found.

I will continue to work around the problem as I always have. I wasn't bitching 
or complaining about it, only adding another voice to let the devs know this 
isn't just an edge case problem and effects more than just the OP. Feedback is 
usually the path progress which was my goal.



On Wed, Jul 11, 2018, at 5:17 AM, Owen wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > I use the text tool a lot myself and have just come to work around most the 
> > annoyances. I realize that it's a tricky situation as there are a ton of 
> > variables to consider as well as multiple workflows. I am just chiming in 
> > to agree wholeheartedly with #4.
> > 
> > I recreate logos and have to match fonts to text in an image. In doing so I 
> > am constantly zooming in to get the kerning correct which puts the floating 
> > box with the kerning adjustment out of view. I have to zoom out to make an 
> > adjustment and back in to check it. This can get painful after a while. Of 
> > course I wish the floating panel would "float" within the viewport, but I'd 
> > be just as happy to have the adjustment available in the tool panel if 
> > that's the only way to get it to work.
> > 
> > Baseline and any other controls that are exclusive to the floating panel 
> > should be available in the tool panel if the floating panel cannot be kept 
> > in view at all times.
> 
> 
> 
> I think it is unreasonable to expect gimp to be a full blown font editor. 
> 
> Why not try your corrections in say Scribus?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Owen 
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