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 -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013 _______________________________________________ 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
