On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 09:20 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: > Since we now have three ways to control text properties there's a risk > of confusing descriptions. For example, the text options panel has > "Adjust line spacing" while the tool box overlay has "Change baseline of > selected font".
Kerning and letter spacing are not the same thing. Or shouldn't be ;-) Kerning automatically adjust spacing between letters, e.g. moving V and A closer together so that they look as if they are evenly spaced. Kerning uses data included with the fonts. Pair Kerning normally has two settings (on and off); adjusting the spacing between a specific pair of characters is also called kerning - either "every V/A pair" or "this particular pair". Letter spacing is a constant amount of space added to (or subtracted from) the glyph advance between every pair of characters. If that's not how the terms are used, please file a bug. > Several features do not seem to function properly. In particular, the > text editor seems to behave strange. Yes, the text editor does not support all of the typographical features. There was a move to remove it, but there are useability problems with removing it - especially when you have text on a path, or if your text doesn't all fit on the screen. > Changing the baseline using the semi-transparent tool box does not have > any effect, neither does changing the baseline in the text editor. They work fine here, but you have to have selected some text on the canvas. > Changing it in the 'classical' tool options dialog does work. > > When the text editor is shown, the on-cavas editing doesn't work > anymore. works here (but I have a pre-release of 2.8) although you can't select text. > In the text editor, when you want to change e.g. the font size of a > piece of text, strange things happen. For example, select the word > "quick" and then go to the font size field and use the mouse wheel. The > selection is lost and although the font size (number) changes, no text > is affected. yes. > > I consider these "first release" inconveniences that beyond doubt will > get fixed soon. Especially if you report them so the developers discover it too, and even sooner if you include a patch :-) Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml The barefoot typographer _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
