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Text tool stops working how I expect (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/gimp

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Hi folks, can anyone help me figure out what's happening here with editing text?

Sometimes when I'm trying to change the font of text it stops working. I'm attaching an image to better illustrate the problem.

With text highlighted I go to change the font settings in the section circled in red but they do not actually change the font/update the settings outlined in blue. I cannot use the settings outlined in blue to select the font from a list, so I cannot use this as a workaround.

This problem doesn't always present itself and I suspect that I'm causing it myself but I just don't know how.

Any help would be much appreciated!

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[–] YoorWeb 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Red section should change the font of all text in the layer. Blue section is for fine tuning and will only work for the selected text.

The blue section doesn't have the font list button, but you can delete the font name in it and type in the first letters of the font you want to use and the list will pop-up.

Exercise: in "Example Text" select word "Example" and you can change it's size and font using the blue section.

It takes some experimenting but generally the red section is global for selected layer while the blue section is for fine tuning selected text.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Ah that makes perfect sense now. Thanks!