On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 23:12 -0700, Carol Spears wrote: > > Im doing this: > > > > 1) New image 400x400 white bg > > 2) Create Path - round mountain shaped > > 3) Enter some text > > 4) choose "Create path from text" from the text tools > > the error is in 4) of your steps. > > i am curious which version of gimp has the "Text along path" button, it > might be new. perhaps you should try the recent developers version: > ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.3/
I'm using version 2.2.7 which in the one in Gentoo portage for amd64 "unstable" branch. ( ~amd64 ) > i find the unstable version to be very stable; it is weird how software > is that way -- at least this free stuff i use. stable distributions can > be more unstable since no one really cares about it anymore, for > instance. Well, usually the software marked unstable has (bug)fixes and features not yet found on the 'stable' - so indeed sometimes that is the case in the current versions and development (cvs,svn...) but not always :) > i think the problem is that you do not have the button. no wonder ... > also, if you are worried about problems with the unstable version, it > might actually be in your better interests to see about using the cvs > version. once you can build a gimp, it is usually easy to take the few > extra steps to build the cvs version. what you get from the extra > effort is that any problems you find will probably get fixed; if the > developers agree with you that it is a problem. alright - ill hack up an ebuild for TheGimp to fetch the cvs instead. Thanks. nuno -- "Non-free programs are dangerous to you and to your community. Don't let them get a place in your life." - RMS _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user