On Friday 02 October 2020 21:02:35 Rick Strong wrote: > My eyes are nearly 80 years old, I am going blind in one of them and I > can easily read 18 pt type. Anyway, you need something larger. OK. Try > double clicking on the "A" tool and setting the type specs in the > dialogue/tab that comes up on the right. Screenshot attached. I assume > you are using the latest version. > No, stretch is 2.8, so totally different view, that double-click worked. But the save didn't, on rerunning orvile it was back to 18px. But it seems to have saved for the session, which is a huge help. Thank you. > Rick > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gene Heskett > Sent: Friday, October 02, 2020 7:38 PM > To: Rick Strong > Cc: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] text mode, need instruct sequence > > On Friday 02 October 2020 18:36:07 you wrote: > > Gene, > > > > By my reckoning, an 18 px letter is less than 1 pt high on an 300 > > dpi print—virtually invisible. Try setting the text size to 18 pts. > > (POINTS, not pixels) to be legible. > > I have done that, Rick, but 18 pts isn't near big enough for older > eyes either, so you backspace to get rid of the dust specs, look up to > the text box and its reset to 18px. Frustrating is a very weak > description. You spend 10 minutes bounceing from one place in that > tool, to another trying to get it to keep what you selected long > enough to type one line of text. Repeat for every line of text you > want to overlay on a pix. > > > Good luck. > > I don't need luck, I need instructions that work, please read my whole > message. > > > RS > > My whole point is that there is no way to set the defaults AND setting > anything else restores the default of 18 px, switches it back to sans > font, and the selected color back to black. Changing ANY of those > settings should change them at the very least for the lifetime of the > current session. ANY TIME YOU CHANGE ONE THING, IT RESETS EVERYTHING > ELSE BACK TO THE DEFAULTS. INCLUDING CHANGING WHERE YOU WANT TO PUT IT > BY LEFT CLICKING THE SCREEN WHERE YOU WANT TO START TYPING. And if > your put it here click is too high, the box disappears under the > friggin ruler at the top of the screen so that you can't see if its > decided to restore all the defaults > > Since you have not addressed my main bitch at all, how about telling > us how to change the text defaults to something that IS usable and by > makeing those the defaults, 90% of the frustrations would be > addressed. Maybe _you_ have a sequence that works, but no one has told > the users. Put it in a format I can print and tape to the wall for > next time. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Gene Heskett > > Sent: Friday, October 02, 2020 5:05 PM > > To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > > Subject: [Gimp-user] text mode, need instruct sequence > > > > Greetings all; > > > > I, like Ruben Safir, am A. tired of the lack of good docs, and B. > > the churn in how it works. 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 8x10 printout, > > so I click on the size and add a zero to make 180 px. Then I am > > going to put it in a black area of the printout, so I select the > > color white and hit enter and it resets the size to 18px and the > > font back to sans from sans serif. Thats bs at its finest. So is > > the text box when its under the top ruler and you can't see that its > > decided to reset everything back to the defaults. So please tell me > > the correct sequence of key or mouse strokes to set that up and if > > possible set it as the defaults so I don't have to get so frustrated > > just to add a line or 3 of text captions to a picture. You've made 4 > > hours of very frustrating work out of captioning 6 photo's that > > ought to be 3 minutes plus print time each. If this worked. But > > IMNSHO it sucks dead toads thru soda straws. So please make it > > _Just_Work_, write some docs that tell us how to use it, and then > > stop the churn. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
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