On Thursday 21 July 2016 22:28:51 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 21 July 2016 20:50:29 Akkana Peck wrote: > > Gene Heskett writes: > > > Greetings everybody; > > > > > > I just went to add some text to some pix I just shot to be > > > followed by moving the edited copies to my web page. > > > > > > But I opened the first one in gimp, clicked on the A to get the > > > text entry box, and no box appears. > > > > Are you clicking on the canvas after clicking on the A? The A just > > makes the text tool active; you have to click in the canvas to > > create a new text layer (and set its initial position). > > > > ...Akkana > > Clicking on the canvas left no mark on the canvas, nor did it open the > teeny text editor. And I just did an update, and now it works, and not > one of the 50+ updates looked to have anything to do with gimp. And I > wonder if thats part of the reason I have thinning grey hair and a > back back, 81 years always sounds like such a worthless excuse. I > need to restart tdm-trinity anyway, and synaptic says there is a newer > api compatible kernel, suggesting I reboot, so I guess its time. > Ok, rebooted, and now I have the text box, but nothing I do to or in it, shows up in the image within the image box outline I've pulled out to a quite decent size.
Did I miss another memo? Thanks for the speedy reply, Akkana. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ 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
