On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 10:57:44AM +1300, Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list wrote: > 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.
The archives don't have a decent search mechanism other than google and it seems google don't care about mailing lists any more > > 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 -- 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://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! 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
