Backwards Words [SOLVED]

Leigh · **Joined:** Feb 27, 2014 **Posts:** 26

I read the link you posted, Oregonian, cant say it made much sense to me, though. Appreciate the effort.

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

Leigh wrote:

hmm, well its set to system language.. what should it be set to? I've never changed this setting, why would it be changed?

Things happen

"System language" is fine.

Did you reboot Windows (after all this is Windows

)?

Oregonian · **Posted:** Wed Sep 24, 2014 8:17 am **(#23)**

This woke me up out of a sound sleep this morning. Got up and tested the idea and it worked. Made the text type backward.

The horizontal letter spacing in the Text Tool dialog set to a fairly high negative value makes the text type backward. Set it back to zero or whatever other spacing you want.

Interestingly, resetting the Text Tool back to default values did not change the horizontal letter spacing back to zero (default value).

Odinbc · **Posted:** Wed Sep 24, 2014 9:53 am **(#24)**

Oregonian wrote:

Interestingly, resetting the Text Tool back to default values did not change the horizontal letter spacing back to zero (default value).

Am I reading this right? You changed the letter-spacing to a negative value and reset the text tool but the letter-spacing stayed at the negative value? If that's true it would be worth a bug report search.

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

Yes, that value isn't reset.

Leigh · **Joined:** Feb 27, 2014 **Posts:** 26

ding ding ding!!!! we have a winner! that worked, Oregonian! I'm not sure I'd changed that, either. Thank you all soooo much for your help. It doesnt matter what stupidity I bring here, people are always glad to help. yay!! :clap

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12776

Oregonian wrote:

This woke me up out of a sound sleep this morning. Got up and tested the idea and it worked. Made the text type backward.

The horizontal letter spacing in the Text Tool dialog set to a fairly high negative value makes the text type backward. Set it back to zero or whatever other spacing you want.
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Interestingly, resetting the Text Tool back to default values did not change the horizontal letter spacing back to zero (default value).

Kudos O for sleuthing this one out. This one should be posted at Buzilla too.

Also, what a cool way to type backward words. lol

Oregonian · **Posted:** Wed Sep 24, 2014 10:42 am **(#28)**

Leigh wrote:

Thank you all soooo much for your help. It doesnt matter what stupidity I bring here, people are always glad to help. yay!! :clap

I'm happy it worked for you. It was a very interesting question. Sometimes a click of the mouse in a random place can wreak all sorts of havoc. :puzzled

@ Odin & Lyle: I tried reporting a bug at Bugzilla once and had such a negative experience with the staff that I swore I'd never try that again.

saulgoode · **Posted:** Wed Sep 24, 2014 10:52 am **(#29)**

Oregonian wrote:

@ Odin & Lyle: I tried reporting a bug at Bugzilla once and had such a negative experience with the staff that I swore I'd never try that again.

My experience has been more positive. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720492

@Leigh, with regard to the resetting problem (and BTW, nice sleuthing O), this should have been fixed back in GIMP 2.8.4 (correction: 2.8.10) . Please check whether you are using a more recent version and determine whether the above bug report needs to be re-opened.

EDIT: I've tested on 2.8.14 and the letter spacing properly resets to "0.0".

Oregonian · **Posted:** Wed Sep 24, 2014 11:03 am **(#30)**

saulgoode wrote:

this should have been fixed back in GIMP 2.8.4 . Please check whether you are using a more recent version and determine whether the above bug report needs to be re-opened.

EDIT: I've tested on 2.8.14 and the letter spacing properly resets to "0.0".

I'm using 2.8.6 and it doesn't reset.

saulgoode · **Posted:** Wed Sep 24, 2014 11:10 am **(#31)**

Oregonian wrote:

I'm using 2.8.6 and it doesn't reset.

My mistake. The reset bug wasn't fixed until the 2.8.10 release. (At the time I reported the bug, the latest release was 2.8.8, but I was still using 2.8.2)

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

Oregonian wrote:

@ Odin & Lyle: I tried reporting a bug at Bugzilla once and had such a negative experience with the staff that I swore I'd never try that again.

Reported 8 bugs, 6 were fixed.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12776

saulgoode wrote:

Oregonian wrote:

@ Odin & Lyle: I tried reporting a bug at Bugzilla once and had such a negative experience with the staff that I swore I'd never try that again.

My experience has been more positive. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720492

@Leigh, with regard to the resetting problem (and BTW, nice sleuthing O), this should have been fixed back in GIMP 2.8.4 (correction: 2.8.10) . Please check whether you are using a more recent version and determine whether the above bug report needs to be re-opened.

EDIT: I've tested on 2.8.14 and the letter spacing properly resets to "0.0".

Maybe so Saul, but, for a myriad of reasons, I'm sticking w/ 2.8.10. Way too many gotchas with 2.8.12/2.8.14 for me to take the gamble.

Wallace · **Posted:** Wed Sep 24, 2014 2:46 pm **(#34)**

Interesting find Oregonian.
I did play with these text setting, but did not go as far with them. I also thought that this would be very obviously noticeable, if the text setting were set dramatically either way.
That's why I did think this to be an issue.
Nice work on this one everyone. :bigthup

You get a

Oregonian.

Oregonian · **Posted:** Wed Sep 24, 2014 2:56 pm **(#35)**

Thanks for the star, Wallace. I put it on my sig.

2-ton · **Posted:** Wed Sep 24, 2014 4:42 pm **(#36)**

even though it's a bug, it's a great piece of information to know about, so if it ever happens we will know where to look to rectify it!

Wallace · **Posted:** Wed Sep 24, 2014 4:46 pm **(#37)**

Oregonian wrote:

Thanks for the star, Wallace. I put it on my sig.

Sure thing O.
It's actually a Celtic Star plz emoticon I made that can be found on DA.

Graechan · **Posted:** Wed Sep 24, 2014 5:09 pm **(#38)**

I agree with Lyle,it is a cool way to force the text to type backwards

Oregonian · **Posted:** Wed Sep 24, 2014 5:46 pm **(#39)**

Graechan wrote:

I agree with Lyle,it is a cool way to force the text to type backwards

What would you use backward text for?

Graechan · **Posted:** Wed Sep 24, 2014 6:41 pm **(#40)**

'O' we do get asked for strange things at times :rofl