On 29.01.2013 22:07, AllForGimpbut wrote:

I've tried this a number of times and it was successful. This time nothing I try is successful.

Problem: want some text along a circular path and the result of "text to path" is ALWAYS text is truncated at the 19th character.

GIMP 2.8.2 on Ubuntu 12.11

This is most likely
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676413

Regards,
Michael

On 01/29/2013 04:07 PM, AllForGimpbut wrote:

I've tried this a number of times and it was successful. This time

nothing I try

is successful.

Problem: want some text along a circular path and the result of

"text to path"

is ALWAYS text is truncated at the 19th character.

Ouch. That one looks like a genuine bug, all right.

It looks like your best options might include:

* Export your image, finished except for the circular text, as a PNG file. Import this file into Inkscape and do the text there.

* Create your text circle in Inkscape, export it as a PNG file and import that to the GIMP.

* Hybrid: Export your unfinished image as PNG. Import this file into Inkscape, resume work there and finish the text circle. Export just the text circle as a PNG, and add it as a layer to the GIMP image in progress.

If you really need that text as a path in the GIMP, Inkscape can solve that: Make a circle and scale it to equal the inside diameter of your planned text circle. Type in your text, select it and the circle at the same time, and do Text > Text to path. Tweak the text as necessary - font, size, kerning - with the text editor tool. Select both text and circle to rotate the text if needed.

To export the text as a path, select (only) the text and do Path > Object to path, then Path > Combine. Save the file as a "plain" SVG.

To import the text circle to the GIMP, right click on the Paths dialog where path thumbnails normally appear. In the context menu, select Import Path and open the SVG file. You should get two paths: The circle and the text.

:o)

Steve

On 01/29/2013 10:07 PM, AllForGimpbut wrote:

I've tried this a number of times and it was successful. This time nothing I try is successful.

Problem: want some text along a circular path and the result of "text to path" is ALWAYS text is truncated at the 19th character.

GIMP 2.8.2 on Ubuntu 12.11

Process 1. create a new background
2. make a circular selection
3. issue "select / to path" command
4. issue "select / none" command
5. create my text, 35 characters long on one line 6. issue "text / along path" command

The text ALWAYS starts at the 12 o'clock position and is ALWAYS cut off at the 19th character!

Any solutions anyone?

On the original circle the text cuts off at the 4 o'clock position.

If I make the circle larger the text is still cut off at the 19th character but: - It starts at 12 o'clock and is cut off at 2 o'clock

If I make the circle smaller the text is still cut off at the 19th character but:
- It starts at 12 o'clock and is cut off at 6 o'clock

All the circles are large enough for all the text to print around their circumference.

Really frustrated by this.

The problem with a closed circle is that you can't really tell where it starts. You can force its starting point by removing a (very) small segment (can be sub-pixel) from it with the path editor: add two very close points to the curve (Ctrl-click on the circle where you want the points) then remove the segment in between (Ctrl-Shift-click on segment).

When using text-along-path around a circle, you can position the produced path text using the Rotate tool (with Transform: path in the tool options) and rotate it around the center of the circle.

Otherwise I have a script that does the job slightly differently and give more options to position your text (and isn't affected by the aforementioned bug);
http://gimp-path-tools.sourceforge.net/tools.shtml#text-along-path

On 01/30/2013 08:44 PM, AllForGimpbut wrote:

nothing I try
"text to path"
Ouch. That one looks like a genuine bug, all right.

It looks like your best options might include:

* Export your image, finished except for the circular text, as a PNG file. Import this file into Inkscape and do the text there.

* Create your text circle in Inkscape, export it as a PNG file and import that to the GIMP.

* Hybrid: Export your unfinished image as PNG. Import this file into Inkscape, resume work there and finish the text circle. Export just the text circle as a PNG, and add it as a layer to the GIMP image in progress.

[...]

Thanks for your help Steve. Did my curved text in Inkscape. Imported the png to GIMP made the non text parts transparent and got what I needed

Yay! I love it when a plan comes together.

In a perfect world, there would be a full time developer on the GIMP and the Inkscape projects whose whole job would be to enhance the inter-operation of these tools... Maybe if I accidentally get rich I will fund that.

:o)

Steve