> Hi, I wasn't sure who to contact, so I joined this list in the hopes I > could reach some developers. > > I'll try to keep this succinct. > > I recently switched to Ubuntu and Gimp with great excitement, finally > free of Satan's Empire! But my happiness was short lived because it > turns out my ability to use Gimp, and therefore Ubuntu, hinged on a > seemingly minor glitch- no text box with word wrap. > > I do simple graphic design- mostly ads for local businesses- usually > with text. In order to play with a body of text, changing fonts and > sizes, etc, you have to have a text box... hitting enter might work > for one line, but formatting a paragraph like that would take... well, > longer than booting up Windows and getting into Photoshop. > > I'm in and out of Photoshop all the time, so booting Windows just to > use it doesn't really work for me- so I just use Windows, which means > I'm not using Ubuntu, all because Gimp doesn't have this feature. > > So that's my story. If I had my way I would never use Windows or > Photoshop again- Adobe ruined Seattle's coolest neighborhood, after > all, and Microsoft ruined, well, everything else. > > So I hope this gets read by someone who has some ability to make text > boxes a feature in future releases. When you select the Text tool, one of the options is to show the editor, tick that. Owen _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
