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thecooptoo
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 Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 4:52 pm Post subject: GIMP : absent font selection menu [SOLVED] |
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when adding text to an image I get the dialog box that lets my type the text, but no option to select the font or font size.
here the emerge info for the gimp
| Code: | skippy paul # emerge -pv gimp
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N ] dev-util/gtk-doc-1.10-r2 USE="-debug -doc -emacs" 0 kB
[ebuild R ] media-gfx/gimp-2.4.2 USE="alsa dbus doc gnome jpeg pdf png python svg tiff -aalib (-altivec) -curl -debug -gtkhtml -lcms -mmx -mng -smp -sse -wmf" 17,362 kB
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How do i select the font and font size for the text. ?
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You have to open the toolbox.
Ctrl-B will put it in the foreground.
Then click the "A" and you should get a dropdown menu to chose fonts etc.
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I get a box to type the text in wi the the options 'open, clear LTR and RTL , but no dropdown menu
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gerard27
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Bunders link shows you the dropdown menu.
You can only get it by clicking the A in the toolbox.
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