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- Example of a text item, showing the boundary of the text layer.
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- One of the greatest improvements of GIMP 2.0 over GIMP 1.2 is in the
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- Text layer, and you can come back later to the layer and edit the text in
- it. You can also move the text around in the image, or change the font, or
- the font size. You can use any font available on your system. You can
- control justification, indentation, and line spacing.
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- Actually, you can operate on a text layer in the same ways as any other
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- To understand some of the idiosyncrasies of text handling, it may help for
- you to realize that a text layer contains more information than the pixel
- data that you see: it also contains a representation of the text in a
- text-editor format. You can see this in the text-editor window that pops
- up while you are using the Text tool. Every time you alter the text, the
- image layer is redrawn to reflect your changes.
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- Now suppose you create a text layer, and then operate on it in some way
- that does not involve the Text tool: rotate it, for example. Suppose you
- then come back and try to edit it using the Text tool. As soon as you edit
- the text, the Text tool will redraw the layer, wiping out the results of
- the operations you performed in the meantime.
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- Because this danger is not obvious, the Text tool tries to protect you
- from it. If you operate on a text layer, and then later try to edit the
- text, a message pops up, warning you that your alterations will be undone,
- and giving you three options: (1) edit the text anyway; (2) cancel; (3)
- create a new text layer with the same text as the existing layer, leaving
- the existing layer unchanged.
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