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.
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 -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis 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
