Hi, I wasn't sure who to contact, so I joined this list in the hopes I could reach some developers.

I'll try to keep this succinct.

I recently switched to Ubuntu and Gimp with great excitement, finally free of Satan's Empire! But my happiness was short lived because it turns out my ability to use Gimp, and therefore Ubuntu, hinged on a seemingly minor glitch- no text box with word wrap.

I do simple graphic design- mostly ads for local businesses- usually with text. In order to play with a body of text, changing fonts and sizes, etc, you have to have a text box... hitting enter might work for one line, but formatting a paragraph like that would take... well, longer than booting up Windows and getting into Photoshop.

I'm in and out of Photoshop all the time, so booting Windows just to use it doesn't really work for me- so I just use Windows, which means I'm not using Ubuntu, all because Gimp doesn't have this feature.

So that's my story. If I had my way I would never use Windows or Photoshop again- Adobe ruined Seattle's coolest neighborhood, after all, and Microsoft ruined, well, everything else.

So I hope this gets read by someone who has some ability to make text boxes a feature in future releases.

When you select the Text tool, one of the options is to show the editor, tick that.

Owen

Hi,

On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 11:30 -0700, joff roepcke wrote:

I do simple graphic design- mostly ads for local businesses- usually with text. In order to play with a body of text, changing fonts and sizes, etc, you have to have a text box... hitting enter might work for one line, but formatting a paragraph like that would take... well, longer than booting up Windows and getting into Photoshop.

The text tool in GIMP 2.6 does have a text box with line wrap. It might not have all the features you demand, but it does line-wrapping just fine.

But honestly, if you are trying to layout longer paragraphs in GIMP, then you are simply using the wrong tool for the job. You might want to look at a page layout program such as Scribus instead. Or you might find Inkscape, a vector editor, more useful.

Sven