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Text strangely shuffled on resizing text box - Immortality - 10-31-2023
GIMP 2.10.34 (revision 2)
Windows 11
Hello everyone,
I apologise for posting a question so soon after my former one.
Without having changed any settings, suddenly when a new text line should be formed, the text starts a new line above the present line instead of below. When the textbox gets crammed, the text seems especially scrambled/shuffled. The text direction is set from left to right, not Arabic right to left. When the text jumps up a line, the last word in the line below becomes the first word in the line above.
I recorded and narrated the experience here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drtibebcq3Y
So far I could not find anything that deals with this specific issue.
Kindly yours,
Immortality
RE: Text strangely shuffled on resizing text box - Ofnuts - 11-01-2023
In your text Tool options, on the left you have a widget (vertical spacing) set to a large negative number. Reset it to 0.
Also, a good still screenshot is usually much better than a blurry video.
RE: Text strangely shuffled on resizing text box - Immortality - 11-01-2023
(11-01-2023, 01:23 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: In your text Tool options, on the left you have a widget (vertical spacing) set to a large negative number. Reset it to 0.
Also, a good still screenshot is usually much better than a blurry video.
Thank you; this has resolved the issue. I had used Gimp for a few days straight, and truly do not recall having set the vertical spacing to this value. This seemed to have jumped up out of nowhere. I trust it must have been my own unconscious hand having been the cause somewhere, though.
I will provide screenshots next time as well; YT might have rendered the video for you on a lower resolution, it does so dynamically based on a respective user's bandwidth. The 1080px version should have been quite clear. I trust you will have superior tech knowledge compared to me, but the cogwheel icon on a YT video allows you to switch to a higher resolution should YT initially render a video on too low a resolution. I always have to manually put a video to a higher resolution when following a tech tutorial, because I need to be able to read the text clearly.
Or perhaps we have a different experience on what is considered blurry :-).
Thank you and yours sincerely,
Immortality
RE: Text strangely shuffled on resizing text box - Ofnuts - 11-01-2023
(11-01-2023, 11:24 AM)Immortality Wrote:(11-01-2023, 01:23 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: In your text Tool options, on the left you have a widget (vertical spacing) set to a large negative number. Reset it to 0.
Also, a good still screenshot is usually much better than a blurry video.
Thank you; this has resolved the issue. I had used Gimp for a few days straight, and truly do not recall having set the vertical spacing to this value. This seemed to have jumped up out of nowhere. I trust it must have been my own unconscious hand having been the cause somewhere, though.
I will provide screenshots next time as well; YT might have rendered the video for you on a lower resolution, it does so dynamically based on a respective user's bandwidth. The 1080px version should have been quite clear. I trust you will have superior tech knowledge compared to me, but the cogwheel icon on a YT video allows you to switch to a higher resolution should YT initially render a video on too low a resolution. I always have to manually put a video to a higher resolution when following a tech tutorial, because I need to be able to read the text clearly.
Or perhaps we have a different experience on what is considered blurry :-).
Thank you and yours sincerely,
Immortality
II did watch your video at 1080p... on a 1440p screen and although it usually causes no problem here it made the video quite blurry. Scaling down to 1:1 made it sharp and crisp, so sorry about this.
You can make Gimp start with sane setting each time instead of keeping whatever goofy setting you set by accident, see here for details.