Scaling through menu keeps aspect when it's off..help pls ><

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(02-25-2020, 10:04 PM)marigolden Wrote: Tried to attach the file but too large oh well.. forgot how to do the compression thing. Anyway so my usual trick of scaling through the menu to get around the glitch in gimp where it sometimes deletes the picture when you scale it isn't working. The not disappearing part is working, but it refuses to obey the setting that has keep aspect off so it makes it smaller instead of narrower. Any recourse??

And yes there was plenty of room of layer boundary, and in fact since I was trying to make it narrower that isn't an issue anyway but just to be clear.. def a part of gimp that annoys but finally ran into situation where this trick doesn't work ugh!

Are you taking about Layer>Scale layer or Image>Scale image? In both cases you just have to click on the chain link next to the horizontal & vertical size settings, this opens the link and the two fields become independent.

(02-25-2020, 10:04 PM)marigolden Wrote: Also, not sure if a person or general host runs this site but would be nice if the text written when you press back after it tells you request entity too large will still be there, as I needed to retype

That's mostly me (but I didn't write the software). However this is a feature of your browser, I can go back and recover my text with Firefox but not with Chrome. The "Entity too large" page isn't really from the forum sofware anyway, its the "armour" around it that prevents miscreants from trying to drown/crack the server with giant uploads.