Hi, skod@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Scott Griffith at ISES-LLC) writes: > The only way I've found of imitating the old Gimp behavior is to > tediously "merge down" the newly created layer after each item is > entered- a very, very painful and extremely time consuming process > when working with extremely large files (each merge takes 25-30 > seconds in the file I'm currently working with). > > Is there a workaround? Failing that, can this be regarded as a plea > for a backwards compatible render-to-active-layer mode in the > Preferences (or tool options) for those few of us users who actually > liked it (and depended on it!) the old braindead way it was? I don't think there's a workaround expect "Merge Down". I am surprised that you are saying that "Merge Down" takes considerable time. You should be able to bind a keybinding to it and have it done rather fast. May I ask how large your images are and what average size of text layers you are working with? I am also interested in what tile-cache size you configured since I wonder if perhaps GIMP is working on the swap file if it's that slow for you. Sven
