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.
Cheers, Cliff On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 3:00 PM Ruben Safir <ru...@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 > > > -- > 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 > -- My Amazon author page : https://amazon.com/author/cliffpratt My Facebook author page : https://www.facebook.com/cliffprattauthor My Search on Kobo : https://www.kobo.com/search?query=Cliff+Pratt _______________________________________________ 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
