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Question about text-to-path Jeffery Small 04 Dec 06:10
  Question about text-to-path Liam R E Quin 04 Dec 08:51
   Question about text-to-path Jeffery Small 04 Dec 09:55
Jeffery Small
2012-12-04 06:10:59 UTC (about 12 years ago)

Question about text-to-path

I'm using GIMP 2.8 on Xubuntu 12.10. I have been going through the new manual trying out various features, was experimenting with text-to-path, and ran into a problem I can't seem to solve.

In my test, I do the following:

* Create a circular selection with the ellipse tool * Go to the Paths dialog and select selection to path * Select the text tool and enter the 26 characters a-z at 20 pt * I right-click in the text box and select "Text along Path"

Only 18 characters, [a-r], are displayed. This seems to cover an arc of about 45-degrees.

I undo, increase the text point size to 40 pt and reapply to the path and I get 19 characters, [a-s], covering an arc of about 95-degrees.

I have tried this over and over and always get similar results. Regardless of how much text I enter, I only get a small initial portion displayed along the path.

If I start over and create a long linear path with the path tool and then apply text to it, I still get the same truncated strings.

Note: I do not have this problem with GIMP 2.6.11 on my Solaris system.

Questions:

1: Any idea how I can get my entire text string to convert to the path, or is this a bug?

2: Any good reason why the "Path from Text" and "Text along Path" buttons were removed from the Text Tool Options menu?

Thanks. --
Jeffery Small

Liam R E Quin
2012-12-04 08:51:42 UTC (about 12 years ago)

Question about text-to-path

On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 06:10 +0000, Jeffery Small wrote:

I'm using GIMP 2.8 on Xubuntu 12.10. I have been going through the new manual trying out various features, was experimenting with text-to-path,

It's buggy, yes. Right now, Inkscape (also free) is better at this.

2: Any good reason why the "Path from Text" and "Text along Path" buttons were removed from the Text Tool Options menu?

They moved (I can never remember where they went though). I don't know why either, sorry :-)

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Jeffery Small
2012-12-04 09:55:02 UTC (about 12 years ago)

Question about text-to-path

Liam R E Quin writes:

On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 06:10 +0000, Jeffery Small wrote:

I'm using GIMP 2.8 on Xubuntu 12.10. I have been going through the new manual trying out various features, was experimenting with text-to-path,

It's buggy, yes. Right now, Inkscape (also free) is better at this.

Thanks for the info. Someone told me about a text-along-path-0.2.py plug-in that you can obtain here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-path-tools/files/scripts/

I installed this and it works. With this, you create/select a target path and then from the Paths dialog, right-click and find it under the Tools section at the bottom of the context menu. This is another suggested workaround until the built-in functionality is fixed.

2: Any good reason why the "Path from Text" and "Text along Path" buttons were removed from the Text Tool Options menu?

They moved (I can never remember where they went though). I don't know why either, sorry :-)

Turns out they are now context-sensitive and are found by right-clicking on the text box itself, right-clicking on the text layer on the Layers dialog, or on the Layers pull-down menu when the Text tool is selected.

Thanks for the help.

Regards, --
Jeff