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  • Need help with GIMP's "Text Along Path" command

    From not a graphics guy@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 26 17:05:59 2017
    I'm hoping that someone can help me with this.

    I need to be able to place text along a curve. As far as I can tell
    GIMP's "Text Along Path" command is the thing to use in order to make
    this happen.

    I have been trying to get this to work, but it usually gives me just a
    lot of confused circles along the path. At one point I was able to get
    the actual text onto a curved path, but it was in red outline and it
    started off to the far left of the curve and was not centered. And
    today when I'm trying it can't even get that to happen!

    I just want to get text to curve so that I can have it combined with
    another layer's graphic and make a curved banner image with text on
    the banner.

    I'm using GIMP 2.8.10.

    Any suggestions?


    Not A Graphics Guy

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  • From not a graphics guy@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 28 15:41:50 2017
    Replying to my own question. I have found a script that does what I
    need. It's available here: <https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-path-tools/files/scripts/>.

    I'd spent a lot of time looking for advice on doing "Text Along Path"
    by hand before posting here, and then I searched more. Finding this
    script was pretty difficult. I found talk about it but couldn't find a
    link easily.

    This script works well. It's written in Python. I hope this posting
    helps others who may need something like this. That link also goes to
    some other Python scripts for GIMP that the author, ofnuts, has
    posted.


    Not A Graphics Guy

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  • From lisa@21:1/5 to not_a_graphics_guy@nospam.invalid on Sun Oct 29 12:03:05 2017
    On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 not a graphics guy
    <not_a_graphics_guy@nospam.invalid> wrote:

    Replying to my own question. I have found a script that does what I
    need. It's available here: ><https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-path-tools/files/scripts/>.

    This script works well. It's written in Python. I hope this posting
    helps others who may need something like this.

    thanks for finding this script.
    A while ago I got a text-along-path 'text' but when I tried it a
    second time ( and more ) it didn't work. Maybe I don't 'need' it, but
    I'm going to use it in the future. Now I know it's so easy .... :-)

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  • From not a graphics guy@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 31 03:53:33 2017
    On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 12:03:05 +0100, lisa <not.in.use@invalid.xor>
    wrote:

    On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 not a graphics guy
    <not_a_graphics_guy@nospam.invalid> wrote:

    Replying to my own question. I have found a script that does what I
    need. It's available here: >><https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-path-tools/files/scripts/>.

    This script works well. It's written in Python. I hope this posting
    helps others who may need something like this.

    thanks for finding this script.
    A while ago I got a text-along-path 'text' but when I tried it a
    second time ( and more ) it didn't work. Maybe I don't 'need' it, but
    I'm going to use it in the future. Now I know it's so easy .... :-)

    you're welcome, and thanks to the guy "OfNuts" who wrote the script.


    Not A Graphics Guy

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