[Gimp-user] Text tool not working
I am trying to use the text tool and nothing is happening except it is freezing gimp up. I have uninstalled and reinstalled. Looked up youtube to make sure I was doing it right. I even made just a single layer test image and nothing. I click on the text icon or from the menu and click where I want the text and nada. Most of the time I get Gimp not responding. -- Solarra (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) ___ 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
[Gimp-user] Text Tool
>Actually, it doesn't. Please just try it :) > >All it does is create a text editing dialog on top of the canvas where >the text toolbar is still present. > >Alex Thank you Alex. I am starting to get used to it. My GIMP - 2.8 - does have the option to "use editor" but I seldom use it. I was just kind of annoyed at first having the dialog box right there in the way of my view of my image but it's not bothering me as much now. Thank you very much for your response. I appreciate it. I also have to say that I love using GIMP. It is an amazing program! I am still in the process of learning it and I love everything new that I learn and am able to do. Again, thank you! Lee -- mojolee (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) ___ 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
Re: [Gimp-user] Text Tool
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 12:25 AM, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: >>> Is there any way to remove this dialog box? >> >> No. At least, not yet. > > Err..actually GIMP 2.8 does have an "Use Editor" checkbox on the > text-tool tool-options that does exactly that. Actually, it doesn't. Please just try it :) All it does is create a text editing dialog on top of the canvas where the text toolbar is still present. Alex ___ 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
Re: [Gimp-user] Text Tool
On 9 December 2015 at 15:45, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 7:59 AM, mojolee wrote: > >> Is there any way to remove this dialog box? > > No. At least, not yet. Err..actually GIMP 2.8 does have an "Use Editor" checkbox on the text-tool tool-options that does exactly that. > >> I don't know why the designers decided to include this > > It's helpful and removes the need to go to the sidebar all the time. > Everything happens on the canvas. The new on-canvas controls allows one to change style of part of the text - like, coloring some letters differently, or changing font. The old way would only allow a single style for each text layer. > > Alex > ___ > 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 ___ 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
Re: [Gimp-user] Text Tool
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 7:59 AM, mojolee wrote: > Is there any way to remove this dialog box? No. At least, not yet. > I don't know why the designers decided to include this It's helpful and removes the need to go to the sidebar all the time. Everything happens on the canvas. Alex ___ 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
[Gimp-user] Text Tool
In the 2.6 version of GIMP, when I wanted to add text to a picture, I just clicked the "Text Tool icon," and in the options part of the toolbox, selected the font style, size, and color and then clicked on the picture and started to add text. In the 2.8 version, now when I click on the picture, after I've already picked what I mentioned before, a little rectangular dialog box, with the same options mentioned before, appears right above where I am trying to insert text. It is irritating and frustrating because I don't want to see it. I want to just see the photo and the text I am trying to type and it's position and so on. If I want to adjust or change anything pertaining to the text, I will do it in the options portion of the toolbox. Is there any way to remove this dialog box? I don't know why the designers decided to include this but I don't like it or need it. Please help, if you can. Thank you. -- mojolee (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) ___ 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
[Gimp-user] Text tool: Toolbox vs. on-canvas options
As much as I love the new on-canvas text editing in GIMP 2.8, I do run into some creative disputes with the on-canvas text editor from time to time My main issue is that the on-canvas options are used to provide local style overrides (e.g. emphasizing a word here or there) and have no connection to the default settings for the text object as a whole. Local style overrides are good and all, but there are some scenarios where you might think (even expect) the on-canvas options to change the default for the text object as a whole, and they don't. And not understanding that these are separate settings leads to problems down the road, such as: 1 - If there is no selection inside the text, the on-canvas controls have no immediate (visible) effect; they appear to "not work" because there is no selection to affect. GIMP makes no attempts to divine whether you intended to change the default style or specify a new one to start typing with (which is a rightly thorny issue by itself). As an alternative idea - you know how if you double-click it selects the current word, and if you triple-click it selects all text in the object? How about adding an intermediary step where it selects all nearby words that share the same style? E.g. 2 clicks - current word; 3 clicks - current style; 4 clicks - all text (Another alternative would be, in the Layers dialog, display a text object like a layer group instead of a single layer, similar to the display of an XML tree. But I'm sure the technical implementation would be horribly complex :[ ) 2 - Inversely, select all text in the object and then make some adjustment to it (font face/size/color). This has the same (visible) effect as changing the default style, but again, technically you are specifying a local style that just happens to cover the length of the entire text object and GIMP is making no attempts to discern whether that was actually your intent. The immediate result is - if the cursor is placed at the start of the text object then any insertions are typed using the default style, while if the cursor is placed at the end, any insertions are typed using the local style. I don't really see any ideal alternative behavior here (word processors in general tend to do the same thing) outside of just "don't do that". 3 - Related to #2: When creating a text object, click once to get started, but before the initial typing, make some adjustments via on-canvas controls (again, font face/size/color). Again, whether you realize/expect it or not you are typing using a local style override that is not affected by the default options in the toolbox. 4 - If you use the on-canvas controls to specify a setting that happens to match as the default (toolbox) options, it is actually -not- the same setting but invisibly different. E.g. type "Lorem Ipsum" at 24px size; then change the word "Lorem" to 28; then change it back to 24 (do not Undo this; change it back manually). Now adjust the default font size in the toolbox; the word "Lorem" does not change in size because it's not actually using the default size, it's using a local size that just -coincidentally matches- the default size. (A similar thing applies with font face and color.) Here, the on-canvas Font Face and Font Size boxes could benefit from an additional entry (labelled "default" or something) to identify when a given section of text is using the default face/size or not; there's no easy way to tell at the moment. 5 - Speaking of font sizes, an option/setting/preference to scale local font sizes (on-canvas options) relative to changes made in the default size (toolbox options) would be stellar. Say I'm using 'small caps' to emphasize words or phrases in one of my text objects -- which I do by typing the emphasized words in ALLCAPS and then shrinking their text size by a notch (e.g. 20 px default style -> 16 px local style). Some time later I want to scale my text object from a default of 20px to 40px and I do -- but my smallcaps words are stuck at 16px and I have to resize them manually. If I was choosing a different form of emphasis (bold/italic) this would not be a problem, but as it stands 6 - And, out of two years' occasional GIMP 2.8 usage I did not even once realize there was a button in the on-canvas box labelled "clear style of selected text". (A.k.a. the 'revert' button.) How come I never noticed it before? . . . I'm thinking maybe because its icon is a -paintbrush-. (Y'know, an interior decorating paintbrush like you'd buy at a home improvement store instead of an art store.) See, paintbrushes are tools that 'do' stuff, not 'undo' stuff. Shouldn't the icon be an eraser instead? Or even that arrow-circling-about-back-to-itself like we have on every other reset-to-default button in every toolbox? I also have some gripes about the placement of the 'clear style' button (now that I'm aware of it) in the on-canvas toolbox, but t
[Gimp-user] Text tool question
>This is bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710943 Okay thanks ! -- Scookum (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Text tool question
On 09.11.2013 15:40, Scookum wrote: > e.g I hit T for text then if I type S Gimp presents me with the tool hot keyed > for "S".. This is bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710943 -- Regards, Michael GPG: 96A8 B38A 728A 577D 724D 60E5 F855 53EC B36D 4CDD ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
[Gimp-user] Text tool question
Hi Everyone, I just installed gimp on my new mac using the dmg file provided at gimp org downloads. I do most of my photography editing in Aperture but would like to use Gimp to add other effects such as text etc. I've been trying to add some text to some images but I'm having a lot of problems, I press T for text and the text editor pops up but every time I try to type something it's using what I'm typing as hotkeys and not entering text. e.g I hit T for text then if I type S Gimp presents me with the tool hot keyed for "S".. Any suggestions?My Gimp is 2.8.4 -- Scookum (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
[Gimp-user] text tool
Please revert to previous setup. I've used gimp since 07 or earlier. The new text tool seems less useful. The old one was fine. The new one doesnt seem to add anything that couldnt be done before. Downloading an old copy of the gimp. ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] text tool chanes text properties when i paste over old text content
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 3:49 AM, realbezo wrote: > Is this the official forum of gimp The gimpusers.com gate to the mailing list? No, it's not. > and where can i report a bug or request something about gimp http://www.gimp.org/bugs/ Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
[Gimp-user] text tool chanes text properties when i paste over old text content
Thanks for the tip, at least i have that feature back with setting my gimp to Single Window Mode from Windows menu. But it made my workspace area smaller, i got used to work with floating window mode. I don't know if it is a bug but it is annoying. Is this the official forum of gimp and where can i report a bug or request something about gimp, because the developer team do not seem to be around, or they have so much work to do in their daily life... Anyway, thanks for your help... >Hello, >I don't know the sourcecode and therefore cannot be sure about this, but >here's what I've concluded from observation: >Text in GIMP saves it's properties in two different places: One set of >properties that is the standard for the entire text layer and then the >modified parameters for every letter you change. Unfortunately, by using >the floating menu you can only change the modified parameters, even if >you have the entire text selected. So when you delete the entire text >and start entering a new one (that's also what happens if you selected >the entire text and start tipping), it uses the layer-wide standard >properties. >To change those, you have to change them in the tool properties of the >text tool instead of the floating menu. >Maybe it'd be worth a bug report if there isn't one, requesting to alter >the layer-wide properties when the entire text is selected. >bw, >Tobl >Am 02.11.2012 04:00, schrieb realbezo: >> Hi, i switched gimp 2.6 to 2.8 and new text tool behaves strangely, as i >> remember in gimp 2.6 when i try to change text content with selecting old >> text and pasting new text i could use same text size and same font with my >> old text without doing anything but now in the gim 2.8 whenever i try to >> change content of a text layer i need to choose again font and text size >> from toolbox options, but why do i have to do this, i have a text placed on >> my image with a certain font and certain font size and i just want to alter >> my text conten not the size of text or font , it changes automatically to >> back text size and font whatever i used last time in another work. >> >> summary: i want to change my text content without setting my font and font >> size properties, i want to use my text layers old properties, please give >> the feature back... >> -- realbezo (via gimpusers.com) ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] text tool chanes text properties when i paste over old text content
Hello, I don't know the sourcecode and therefore cannot be sure about this, but here's what I've concluded from observation: Text in GIMP saves it's properties in two different places: One set of properties that is the standard for the entire text layer and then the modified parameters for every letter you change. Unfortunately, by using the floating menu you can only change the modified parameters, even if you have the entire text selected. So when you delete the entire text and start entering a new one (that's also what happens if you selected the entire text and start tipping), it uses the layer-wide standard properties. To change those, you have to change them in the tool properties of the text tool instead of the floating menu. Maybe it'd be worth a bug report if there isn't one, requesting to alter the layer-wide properties when the entire text is selected. bw, Tobl Am 02.11.2012 04:00, schrieb realbezo: Hi, i switched gimp 2.6 to 2.8 and new text tool behaves strangely, as i remember in gimp 2.6 when i try to change text content with selecting old text and pasting new text i could use same text size and same font with my old text without doing anything but now in the gim 2.8 whenever i try to change content of a text layer i need to choose again font and text size from toolbox options, but why do i have to do this, i have a text placed on my image with a certain font and certain font size and i just want to alter my text conten not the size of text or font , it changes automatically to back text size and font whatever i used last time in another work. summary: i want to change my text content without setting my font and font size properties, i want to use my text layers old properties, please give the feature back... ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
[Gimp-user] text tool chanes text properties when i paste over old text content
Hi, i switched gimp 2.6 to 2.8 and new text tool behaves strangely, as i remember in gimp 2.6 when i try to change text content with selecting old text and pasting new text i could use same text size and same font with my old text without doing anything but now in the gim 2.8 whenever i try to change content of a text layer i need to choose again font and text size from toolbox options, but why do i have to do this, i have a text placed on my image with a certain font and certain font size and i just want to alter my text conten not the size of text or font , it changes automatically to back text size and font whatever i used last time in another work. summary: i want to change my text content without setting my font and font size properties, i want to use my text layers old properties, please give the feature back... -- realbezo (via gimpusers.com) ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
