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.
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
[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.