Bug 392231

Summary:	Inability to scale text borders - half implemented?
Product:	[Applications] krita	Reporter:	Isaac Zuniga <isaaczuniga>
Component:	Tool/Text	Assignee:	Dmitry Kazakov <dimula73>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	autumn, halla
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	4.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Microsoft Windows
OS:	Microsoft Windows
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Attachments:	Screenshot where to search for "Uniform Scaling" ("Scale Styles") option

Description Isaac Zuniga 2018-03-23 13:24:41 UTC

In Krita 4.0, it seems that the feature of scaling the text border is half-implemented, because I am able to scale the borders, but only when I drag the mouse from one edge of the text to the opposing side. It does not properly scale but "snap" to the fixed appearance of "being scaled".

Here's a video showing the issue: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10oa43ZScM2ZIjymAj5pA36aCFZYWbYcN/view?usp=sharing

I'm not 100% sure if this was intentional or not, but it lacks the ability to scale to intermediate sizes, letalone see a highlight of what the text box is scaling to, which would be a lot easier to work with.

A side note, if I force the transform tool on it, the text is able to scale, but not the way that I was thinking of, as it scales the text as a WHOLE, rather than change the area that the text can "fill up."

Comment 1 Autumn Lansing 2018-03-23 15:19:51 UTC

This is my experience as well. I don't know if you've not added that functionality yet or if it's a bug, but I'm confirming if it's a bug.

This may be related to bug 391796.

Comment 2 Dmitry Kazakov 2018-03-29 16:51:50 UTC

Hi, Isaac!

Thank you for your report! Indeed this behavior is exactly what is expected at the moment. 

According to our initial text requirements, *resizing* of the shape should only resize the borders of the bounding box, over which the text wraps into lines. Right now line wrapping is not implemented, therefore *resizing* of the shape is explicitly blocked in the GUI.

But you can still *scale* your text as a usual vector shape. To do that you should activate "Uniform Scaling" option (will be renamed into "Scale Styles" in 4.1). If you activate this option, the text will be scaled with a post-transformation as usual.

See the attached screenshot for demo

Comment 3 Dmitry Kazakov 2018-03-29 16:52:33 UTC

Created attachment 111724 [details]
Screenshot where to search for "Uniform Scaling" ("Scale Styles") option