Austin Donnelly <austin@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thursday, 8 Feb 2001, Frank de Lange wrote: > > >[fonts work on some images, but not others] > > Check both image's resolution: they're probably different. > > If you ask the text tool for text in a particular "point size", then > it needs to scale it so it comes out at the right size for the image's > resolution. > > If you ask for text sized in terms of "pixels", then it won't get > scaled, and you'll probably get the results you expected. > > New images (by default) are close in resolution that of your screen, > so the distinction between points or pixels is minor. > > Maybe the text tool should default to selecting pixel sizes, not point > sizes? Too many people get confused. Yeah, additionally, if the image resolution is a bit extreme, GIMP requests really huge fonts from the X server. Some buggy X servers then prefer to crash. IMHO we cannot simply set maximum sizes for the requested font but should rather follow Austin's proposal and default to "Pixels". ciao, --Mitch
