essevanderstraaten Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 I am making a picture and it involved text. The text is not small and not long but keeps going off the page and out of center. Can someone tell me how to make it stay in the image? The text <----> The text where I want it ^ | | v I hope I made myself clear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarkut Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 Just click to place the cursor where you want it, and press Enter. Paint.NET doesn't have any real word processing type of functions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essevanderstraaten Posted October 9, 2010 Author Share Posted October 9, 2010 Just click to place the cursor where you want it, and press Enter. Paint.NET doesn't have any real word processing type of functions. No that doesnt work, I tried that. The words just go all to the right and off the image. How do I make it all stay in one image? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarkut Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 (edited) It works for me. Don't know why it won't for you. Do you mean that you want the words to form vertically? Edited October 9, 2010 by Sarkut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essevanderstraaten Posted October 9, 2010 Author Share Posted October 9, 2010 (edited) It works for me. Don't know why it won't for you. I went ahead and took a picture: Erm, I hope it isnt too big.. Another edit: I want them like the way a book would have them: You would read left to right and up to down. Edited October 9, 2010 by essevanderstraaten Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarkut Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 Yes. You have to stop before it goes too far, and press Enter to drop to the next line. Or prep it in a word-processor and copy it into Paint.NET as an image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essevanderstraaten Posted October 9, 2010 Author Share Posted October 9, 2010 (edited) Yes. You have to stop before it goes too far, and press Enter to drop to the next line. Or prep it in a word-processor and copy it into Paint.NET as an image. I did prep it in notepad.. but stop and entering does not work for some reason. Copying it in as an image would be way to much work. Edited October 9, 2010 by essevanderstraaten Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarkut Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 Maybe rebooting the PC will sort things out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essevanderstraaten Posted October 9, 2010 Author Share Posted October 9, 2010 Maybe rebooting the PC will sort things out. No, I honestly think it wont. Thanks for your help though, maybe someone else might come along. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarkut Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 As a work-around you can type until you have as much text as you want on a line, then switch to a different tool momentarily before restarting the Text tool one line space down. It is a good practice to always make a new (transparent) layer to put your text on, rather than adding it directly to the white background layer. It makes it easier to adjust the text later, should you need to. This has nothing to do with your current difficulty, however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essevanderstraaten Posted October 9, 2010 Author Share Posted October 9, 2010 As a work-around you can type until you have as much text as you want on a line, then switch to a different tool momentarily before restarting the Text tool one line space down. It is a good practice to always make a new (transparent) layer to put your text on, rather than adding it directly to the white background layer. It makes it easier to adjust the text later, should you need to. This has nothing to do with your current difficulty, however. Well darn, this is going to take forever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paint dot mike Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 no one said it would be easy Quote [center][IMG]http://i41.tinypic.com/okzz91.png[/IMG][/center] [center]Don't be afraid to forgive and forget. Life is too short to hold grudges |[url="http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/19711-paint-dot-mikes-gallery/page__p__333003&#entry333003"]Paint.Net Gallery[/url]|[/center] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 You have to put in your own line breaks. Paint.NET doesn't auto-wrap. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csm725 Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 Rick - Coming soon plz? Quote My deviantART | Sig Battles | My Tutorials | csm725.com Click to enter or vote in the official Paint.NET competitions! COMPETITIONS: LOGO OF THE WEEK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 Depends on your definition of soon.I've been throwing around ideas on a "rich text tool" for the last week or so, for v4.0. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csm725 Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 Yeah. I meant 4.0-soon. Is 4.0 still due for late 2011? Quote My deviantART | Sig Battles | My Tutorials | csm725.com Click to enter or vote in the official Paint.NET competitions! COMPETITIONS: LOGO OF THE WEEK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 It's been delayed until 2013. I'm hoping the world ends in 2012 and I won't have to finish it ...... kidding! Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csm725 Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 So really 2013? Didn't quite understand you there :O Quote My deviantART | Sig Battles | My Tutorials | csm725.com Click to enter or vote in the official Paint.NET competitions! COMPETITIONS: LOGO OF THE WEEK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 End of 2011 is still the goal. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csm725 Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 Alright, can't wait! Quote My deviantART | Sig Battles | My Tutorials | csm725.com Click to enter or vote in the official Paint.NET competitions! COMPETITIONS: LOGO OF THE WEEK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barbieq25 Posted October 10, 2010 Share Posted October 10, 2010 Well darn, this is going to take forever. Sarkut has given you great advice. On a new layer type your text. Rather than having one long line, break it up. So type some of the words. Press Ctrl + D to deselect the words. Then go to Effects - Align Object plugin & choose the alignment you want. Create a new layer & type some more text, repeat the deselect. You can then use the rectangle select (not magic wand) to move the text down beneath the previous text or use the Align Object plugin to align the text. Keep doing this, each time on a new layer so you can move the text without problems. As for taking forever, it would take about 5 minutes max, depending on how much text you want to do. In fact it has probably taken longer for me to type a response to you than to do the text you want. Life is not like instant coffee - more like a box of chocolates - some pieces are less tasty but we eat them anyway because they are chocolate Rick, for someone who hates the thought of switching from XP - take all the time you want. Sorry CSM! Quote Knowledge is no burden to carry. Â April Jones, 2012 Â Gallery My DA Gallery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 10, 2010 Share Posted October 10, 2010 Rick, for someone who hates the thought of switching from XP - take all the time you want. Sorry CSM! Sorry man ... I won't be delaying Paint.NET v4 simply because a few people won't upgrade past XP. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubrica Posted October 10, 2010 Share Posted October 10, 2010 Will those of us with XP be discouraged from downloading v4, then? Or will we just find our copy of PDN stops working? One of our computers is on XP, is all, and it'd be a nuisance to make use of that free copy of GIMP I got with a magazine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csm725 Posted October 10, 2010 Share Posted October 10, 2010 Rubrica: Older version of Paint.NET will continue working. PdN 4 will not work on XP. <IIRC GIMP is free regardless! Quote My deviantART | Sig Battles | My Tutorials | csm725.com Click to enter or vote in the official Paint.NET competitions! COMPETITIONS: LOGO OF THE WEEK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubrica Posted October 10, 2010 Share Posted October 10, 2010 I know it's free, I just strongly dislike it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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