On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 11:16 PM Jacques Le Fèvre via gimp-user-list wrote:
Dear Jacques, I can def weigh in on some of your points but I'm of no help regarding 2.4 builds. Sorry about that. > - The freehand selection tool: I need it very much to correct defects on > scanned slides. See attached example. > > Closing the selected area on GIMP 2.4 takes only a release of the mouse > button. On GIMP 2.10, you need reaching the very pixel you started from, Nope, you can release the mouse button and press Enter. > - The text tool: On GIMP 2.4, you can directly and continuously adjust > the font size so that it fits to the background. On GIMP 2.10, you have > to adjust the size of the layer. Nope, you only need to select the text and adjust the font size in the on-canvas toolbar. > I have produced this picture: > http://merleblanc-brest.org/images/planmax.jpg > on the laptop with GIMP 2.4. Because of the drawbacks, both with the > freehand selection tool and the text tool, it would have been > unpractical to perform the task with GIMP 2.10. Neither v2.4 nor v2.10 are practical choices for this sort of thing, the reason being, both versions rasterize a text layer once you rotate it. Inkscape would be a vastly better tool for this. The text tool definitely needs revisiting but it simply doesn't have the problem you are describing. > - Saving pictures: With GIMP 2.10, this can be done only to .xcf, which > is recognised by no other software, so that such images cannot be used > on the web or included in documents. In addition, this flavour of .xcf > is not recognised by earlier versions of GIMP. You have to export the > final result of editing to other formats, and this does not always work > properly to TIFF files. Please elaborate on the TIFF issue. > file (TIFF from my scanners). In addition, the colour space in GIMP 2.4 > is the same as on my scanners, which is not the case in GIMP 2.10. I'm guessing you are referring to sRGB there. I can't see how GIMP 2.10 is not capable of handling it properly. Please elaborate. > - CTRL-F: In GIMP 2.4, it repeats the last filter, in GIMP 2.10 it > repeats the last tool with the same settings, There is no such thing as "repeating the last tool" in GIMP. Please clarify. Alex _______________________________________________ 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
