GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 700046
When text with more than one font is selected any changes to selection cause a crash
Last modified: 2013-05-11 18:40:34 UTC
With the new text tool, a user can have various fonts, sizes, styles, and colours of text within a single text box. GIMP also enables the user to select parts or all of the text within a text box. Steps to reproduce: 1 Create a text box. 2 Write some text using one font. 3 Write some text in the same text box using a different font. 4 Select some or all the text within the box (but including text of at least two different fonts). 5 Attempt to change the colour, style, size, baseline, or kerning of the selection. 6 Expected: The requested change is implemented. Else, a dialogue box states that user has selected text containing more than one font, and it cannot be processed. 7 Actual: GIMP crashes. Any unsaved work is lost.
Hi, I can't reproduce with neither the master branch, nor the GIMP 2.8 branch. But that's probably normal because I believe that's something that has been fixed, probably along bug 689523. Even though the title looks like another issue, it basically made so that there is no time where no font is selected (even in strange cases like one where you select text with various fonts). See commit 6a39d214947da4aba7354d25655065f9d42456c2 in particular. To confirm it has been fixed, would it be possible for you to compile GIMP from the git repository, the branch "gimp-2-8" in particular, and confirm if this bug is indeed fixed for you as well?
It's in fact a duplicate of bug 694417. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 694417 ***