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| Gimp 2.10.30 Text alignment not working weird bug I haven't seen before. |
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Posted by: guest273 - 7 hours ago - Forum: General questions
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Hey there GIMPers!
So, I hope that at least one of these pictures shows up, as in this case pictures can speak thousands of words:
If the images are not showing up, here's an Imgur link: https://imgur.com/a/MDzWdOd
![[Image: MDzWdOd]](https://imgur.com/a/MDzWdOd)
[img=1141x400]https://imgur.com/a/MDzWdOd[/img]
Long story short - I've been using GIMP quite a lot over the past couple of years, mostly sticking to the basics, but also learning a new thing then and now. So the fact that I've encountered something this disruptive I haven't seen before has caught me by surprise. It looks like a bug or a super hidden feature that can be activated with a key or key combination...
Essentially - Text Tool's text alignment feature no longer works properly for "Center" or "Right justified". It assumes there's more space for the text to the right side, but that's not the case. In my image I have specifically used 'View' -> 'Snap to Canvas Edge', so it would be easy to see that the text is not Center Aligned.
There are no space-bars, no enters, no tabs, no invisible symbols in front of the text. No Font, size changes affect the behavior, opening a new project & re-making the layers from scratch doesn't fix this. Changing the resolution of the base image does not change anything. I tried copying in a duplicate text layer from an older project and it's still haunted by this.
And the worst thing is that this seems to also affect my older projects now... So I must have accidentally clicked some key / key-combination that does something I'm unaware of now. What is going on and how do I turn it off?
Thank you!
- guest273
This is how right alignment looks like:
Okay. A full PC restart and starting a brand new project somehow fixed this issue.
But I would still like to know what and how caused this.
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| Can the gradient tool be non-destructive? |
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Posted by: ESH - Yesterday, 03:41 PM - Forum: General questions
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Gimp 3.2 on Win 11.
We are now using Gimp 3 with a number of very good non-destructive filters.
But the gradient tool seems to be "baked in" when committed on a pixel-layer and cannot be re-invoked for later adjustments - or am I using it wrongly?
If not - is there a work-around to allow adjustments on an existing gradient?
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| Numerous issues with 3.0+ I've been having. |
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Posted by: seagull - 11-24-2025, 08:57 PM - Forum: General questions
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Gimp 2.10 worked fine, but then it was auto-upgraded to 3.0+ (I use Linux).
* No more Colorcube Analysis in 3.0+, so I cannot tell how many colors an image has.
* The good process for converting to indexed colors from 2.0+ was replaced with one in 3.0+ that sucks. With the 16-color CGA palette, it makes everything green-tinted. With 3-bit RGB (8 colors), it makes everything darker. And the dithering in Floyd Steinberg has a lot of lines and other distortion that was lacking in 2.0+.
* 3.0.4 does a lot of writing to the drive. About 10 MB just to start up, and hundreds of KB to MB every time I open an image or change a preference. Even 3.0 didn't have that problem.
Meanwhile I "downgraded" to 2.1 and it's definitely an upgrade.
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| How to transform a layer and a path both together? |
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Posted by: teapot - 11-19-2025, 02:28 AM - Forum: General questions
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Hi,
In gimp 3 (currently 3.0.4) how do I transform a layer and a path both together with a transform tool such as move, rotate, scale etc.
In gimp 2 I can lock them both and then use a transform tool to transform both by the same transformation.
In gimp 3 I can have the path selected in the paths dialog and the layer selected in the layers dialog but as far as I can spot so far a transform tool will transform one or the other not both.
Thanks for any help.
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| Gimp 3.0.6 Python plug-in bug with text layer.set_color(color)? |
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Posted by: Volker - 11-18-2025, 02:43 PM - Forum: Scripting questions
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My environment: Apple Mac mini M2, macOS Tahoe 26.1.
I want to set the color of a text layer from a Python plug-in. In Gimp 2 I used the plug-in "gimp-text-layer-set-color".
In Gimp 3 I find the layer method "set_color(color)", but the color remains to be the foreground color. The same with the PDB plug-in.
First try with layer method:
Code:
textColor = Gegl.Color.new("red") # e.g.
textLayer = Gimp.TextLayer.new(image, "Text", someFont, sometextSize, Gimp.Unit.pixel())
textLayer.set_name("Text")
textLayer.set_color(textColor)
image.insert_layer(textLayer, parent, position)
The text is black.
Next try with pdb proc:
Code:
textColor = Gegl.Color.new("red") # e.g.
textLayer = Gimp.TextLayer.new(image, "Text", someFont, sometextSize, Gimp.Unit.pixel())
textLayer.set_name("Text")
pdb = Gimp.get_pdb()
textLayerSetColor = pdb.lookup_procedure("gimp-text-layer-set-color")
pdbConfig = textLayerSetColor.create_config()
pdbConfig.set_property("layer", textLayer)
pdbConfig.set_property("color", textColor)
textLayerSetColor.run(pdbConfig)
image.insert_layer(textLayer, parent, position)
The text is black.
Next try with foreground:
Code:
textColor = Gegl.Color.new("red") # e.g.
foreground = Gimp.context_get_foreground()
Gimp.context_set_foreground(textColor)
textLayer = Gimp.TextLayer.new(image, "Text", someFont, sometextSize, Gimp.Unit.pixel())
textLayer.set_name("Text")
image.insert_layer(textLayer, parent, position)
Gimp.context_set_foreground(foreground)
Success! The text is red.
Where is the error? With my code or with Gimp?
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