Hi Peter. > I needed the same feature some years ago when I wrote an ASCII plugin > that was able to read and display ASCII files. At that time a change was > made > that the renderer will not crop when the border-parameter was specified > with a negative value. I suppose this feature works up to now. > I dont know what this border parameter is good for. Specifying any value > always cropped me the textbox. But since a lot of scripts are using > gimp-text, changes should be made carefully. Splendit! That is exactly what I need. I've seen the code that does it, but I totally missed it's meaning :) Thanks for the fast reply. It now works terrific. I strongly suggest changing the register help text for the text render functions to include a hint to this behaviour. Nobody should have to spent three days searching for that anymore :) Greetings, Andy