I’ve been trying to like The Gimp. When switching software, there is almost always a difficult transition period where your productivity is reduced because you have to learn new ways of doing familiar tasks. To get over that, I tried using The Gimp exclusively for a relatively simple layout comp for a small project. Things were going okay until I tried to use the text tool to enter a couple of short paragraphs. It would let me type a few sentences and then The Gimp would crash without so much as an error dialog box. After doing that a few times I became so frustrated that I gave up and did the comp in the tool I usually use, Paint Shop Pro 8.

I’m not giving up on The Gimp yet. I’m going to upgrade to a newer stable version tonight and see if the problem goes away. Apparently some other people have had problems with the text tool as well that seem to be caused by incompatible fonts so there’s that to look into. More later…

Comments

1. Doug Dangler on 2005-04-20 13:15:11 wrote: Have you tried working with Windows Gimp and pictures from your Nikon D70? I just installed GIMP and I can�t get it to open pictures I�ve taken with the D70. It opens other pics from other sources fine, but not the D70. I�m using fine-JPG mode, so it�s not an issue with RAW. Oddly, Gimp for Mac opens these photos fine. Any suggestions?

2. john on 2005-04-20 23:48:18 wrote: I never experienced this problem because I shoot RAW. But it appears to be a known issue. I confirmed the same problem loading a JPG from my D70 into Gimp 2.2.6 and I also confirmed that the solution described in comment #40 solves the problem.