Hi All - I'm trying to add some curved text to an image using the text to path methodology.
I've tried half a dozen fonts - but the all distort to the point of being unreadable.
Is there a solution to this (that's easy to follow!, I'm pretty basic lol)

Thanks

It could be all sorts of things

- A high degree of curvature for the path. Sharp corners do not work.

- A very small font size will make for poor quality.

- and of course if the text is too long for the path, it will shoot off to a corner.

Try increasing the character spacing. You might have to also reduce character size to fit the path. It is a trade off. see the attached screenshot.

An alternative is a python plugin from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-path-tools/files/scripts/

The top one at the moment: ofn-text-along-path.zip Unzip it, pop the ofn-text-along-path.py in your Gimp profile (for Windows C:\Users\your-name\.gimp-2.8\plug-ins Read the html description of use. It will make a best-fit to a path as well as better kerning of characters.

rich: www.gimp-forum.net

And, of course, the best tool for this job might not be GIMP at all.

Vector oriented edition programs, such as Inkscape will allow much better control of text along a path, including in-place editing of the text. You can then export your final rendering to finish the image in GIMP.

On 2 November 2017 at 11:41, rich404 wrote:

Hi All - I'm trying to add some curved text to an image using the text to path methodology.
I've tried half a dozen fonts - but the all distort to the point of being unreadable.
Is there a solution to this (that's easy to follow!, I'm pretty basic lol)

Thanks

It could be all sorts of things

- A high degree of curvature for the path. Sharp corners do not work.

- A very small font size will make for poor quality.

- and of course if the text is too long for the path, it will shoot off to a corner.

Try increasing the character spacing. You might have to also reduce character size to fit the path. It is a trade off. see the attached screenshot.

An alternative is a python plugin from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-path-tools/files/scripts/

The top one at the moment: ofn-text-along-path.zip Unzip it, pop the ofn-text-along-path.py in your Gimp profile (for Windows C:\Users\your-name\.gimp-2.8\plug-ins Read the html description of use. It will make a best-fit to a path as well as better kerning of characters.

rich: www.gimp-forum.net

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