[Gimp-user] [Mac] 2.8.2

2012-10-29 Thread Fpacius
2 - How do you change the language? The release notes say: A question that often arises is how to change the UI language in GIMP, which has traditionally been a bit cumbersome. Not any longer, it is now possible to change the language in Preferences. But, I don't find that option anywhere in

Re: [Gimp-user] [Mac] 2.8.2

2012-10-29 Thread Michael Schumacher
Von: Fpacius for...@gimpusers.com 2 - How do you change the language? The release notes say: A question that often arises is how to change the UI language in GIMP, which has traditionally been a bit cumbersome. Not any longer, it is now possible to change the language in Preferences. But, I

Re: [Gimp-user] export to non xcf

2012-10-29 Thread Richard Gitschlag
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:09:10 +0100 From: schum...@gmx.de To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] export to non xcf Von: Donald Miller damill...@gmail.com Can't directly save to jpg, so exported. Export to jpg made png. Same for psd. Shouldn't name track chosen

[Gimp-user] edit text content and properties

2012-10-29 Thread Donald Miller
Hello Gimp-user-list One thing Photoshop now does well is to modify text: Select Layer, click, edit... including content, font, and size units. On GIMP2, I can select similarly, but edit options seem not to allow easy change of text or properties. Attempting to highlight or select from text box

Re: [Gimp-user] edit text content and properties

2012-10-29 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Donald Miller wrote: On GIMP2, I can select similarly, but edit options seem not to allow easy change of text or properties. They absolutely do :) Attempting to highlight or select from text box seems to only let me move box, copy all, paste replace. This

Re: [Gimp-user] edit text content and properties

2012-10-29 Thread Donald Miller
Hello Alexandre Thanks for fast response. Sounds logical. Highlighting in place seemed not to work, so I use editor, changed px to pt, found NO CHANGE. Also tried editor with use selected font, no change. Have previously found GIMP to reject my mods, including size/ppi. Is something protected?

[Gimp-user] edit text content and properties

2012-10-29 Thread rich
Hello Alexandre Thanks for fast response. Sounds logical. Highlighting in place seemed not to work, so I use editor, changed px to pt, found NO CHANGE. Also tried editor with use selected font, no change. Have previously found GIMP to reject my mods, including size/ppi. Is something protected?

[Gimp-user] re Online Manual

2012-10-29 Thread Donald Miller
Hello Gimp-user-list Perhaps manual would anticipate more questions to user-list if there were a draft/w.i.p. version to insert notes. For example: 5.20, You can set the default for the rulers in the Image Window Appearance dialog. images differ from latest release. Ex2: Text editing could

Re: [Gimp-user] re Online Manual

2012-10-29 Thread Donald Miller
Thanks Alexandre So someone could make a DIV with colored border and percentage width, to insert note boxes, much like WORD accepts multi-author notes, comments. I've not used DocBook, but was active in HTML-4. Regards, Don Miller damill...@gmail.com ==

Re: [Gimp-user] edit text content and properties

2012-10-29 Thread Donald Miller
Hello Rich group Ok, I've chosen Text-tool, clicked string and highlighted, reset px to pt and large size, and nothing changes. If I press enter or select move tool, string can be erased from box. Ctrl-z brings back string. (1) how can one safely exit the text box? (2) why don't my changes