>Not 100% sure of what you have done but first a guide to those layers > >First screenshot > >1. Get this out the way, a non-active text layer, moved partly off the >canvas, dotted line shows the boundary and if you look at your >screenshot you see the top of the text slightly clipped. > >2. The text tool options dialogue sets the properties for the text >layer Font, size, colour, anti-aliasing (does anyone turn that off?) >kerning, character spacing. Change these values and all text on the >text layer is affected. > >3. The on-canvas text tool dialogue will initially reflect the Tool >Options. Selecting characters on canvas and individual (or groups) of >characters and properties can be changed. The position of the cursor >does show the relevant properties. > >That is the basics and you do need to understand how Gimp works. > >Second screenshot > >4. Any graphic editing on a text layer and it then becomes a regular >bitmap. This one the GEGL drop shadow. > >5. The layer dialogue now shows the change from text to raster >(bitmap). > >Third screenshot and a maybe this is what you did. > >6. New day with a different computer or different setup. Open the >image, use the text tool on the raster layer. Gimp has some text >information, but has to discard any effects to get back to a text >layer. > >7. Selecting Edit will discard the drop shadow effect and return to >original state. > >Fourth screenshot > >8. Now have the text layer back, the text icon is there. --- but --- >The font Albertus used initially is no longer there. (Either removed >or a different computer.) > >9. The now non-existent font is replaced by the system default ( in >this case Standard Symbols) > >10. Part of it is still there, the Century font for the magenta 'E' is >there and is used. >The on-canvas tool does not control antialiasing. If the text looks >'blocky' then usually it is very small with insignificant >anti-aliasing and not much can be done about that, or it is the font. > >Need a plugin to show text properties that might still remain on a >raster layer? > >http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-tools/files/scripts/ > >look for text-info-0.1.py well down the list (dated 2014-08-26)
thanks for taking the time to explain - much appreciated -- chrisj (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
