On Friday 18 July 2003 12:17, charkee berekeke wrote:

fellow gimp users,
Can anyone teach me how to write text vertically ( top to bottom ) ?

TIA charkee

do you mean text rotated 90 degrees? Or do you mean text like
T
H
I
S

The solution depends on answering the above first :

John Culleton

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John Culleton wrote:

On Friday 18 July 2003 12:17, charkee berekeke wrote:

fellow gimp users,
Can anyone teach me how to write text vertically ( top to bottom ) ?

TIA charkee

do you mean text rotated 90 degrees? Or do you mean text like
T
H
I
S

The solution depends on answering the above first :

I would be interested in learning how to write text like

T H
I
S

While, we're on the topic of text, are there any tutorials on making text along an arc? The "curvebend" filter _almost_ does what I want but not quite.

Thanks...

Peace...

Tom

On Sunday 20 July 2003 10:20, Tom Williams wrote:

John Culleton wrote:

On Friday 18 July 2003 12:17, charkee berekeke wrote:

fellow gimp users,
Can anyone teach me how to write text vertically ( top to bottom ) ?

TIA charkee

do you mean text rotated 90 degrees? Or do you mean text like
T
H
I
S

The solution depends on answering the above first :

I would be interested in learning how to write text like

T H
I
S

While, we're on the topic of text, are there any tutorials on making text along an arc? The "curvebend" filter _almost_ does what I want but not quite.

Thanks...

Peace...

If that is what you want to do, and you don't need all the other tools of Gimp, then Context has a specialized manual that shows how to use Metapost to bend text around a circle, follow an s curve and so on. The manual is called Metafun and its file name is metafun-p.pdf for the print optimized version and metafun-s.pdf for the screen optimized verson.

It is a different approach. You put commands in an ascii text file and then compile that file to get the picture. Here is a fragment of code that prints a string with the characters lying on their side: \startMPdrawing
for i=1 upto n:
pic[i] := pic[i]
shifted (0,ypart -.5[ulcorner pic[1],llcorner pic[1]]) ; endfor ;
\stopMPdrawing

...and this is only one of the macros required.

This is not exactly paint by numbers easy! But graphics seldom is. The full set of code to print text around in a circle goes over 20 lines.

However the examples in the manual are extraordinarily clear and it is easy to crib an example and substitute your own text or curve description or whatever.

There are also examples for typesetting text contained within an obtuse graphic like a circle, a diamond, a half circle or whatever.

Hi,

charkee berekeke writes:

That piece on writing text on a curve is really interesting =). I would still like to know if gimp can

write vertical text, like T
H
I
S

It cannot do this. At least not without major hassle like moving the glyphs around manually. I don't plan to add support for vertical text until Pango supports it.

Sven

Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

charkee berekeke writes:

That piece on writing text on a curve is really interesting =). I would still like to know if gimp can

write vertical text, like T
H
I
S

It cannot do this. At least not without major hassle like moving the glyphs around manually. I don't plan to add support for vertical text until Pango supports it.

Sven

One way I've figured out to do this is by using the "Dynamic Text" tool.

Simply choose the text tool from the toolbox, right click on the image and click "Dialogs", then "Tool Options", then make sure "Dynamic Text" is checked. Then with the text tool selected, create a new transparent layer (always a good thing to do), and click on the image and the dynamic text tool dialog should open. Choose your font, font size, and metric (points, pixels, etc).

Then type the first letter and then press "Enter" then type the second letter and press "Enter", etc..

Then when done, click "Apply" and the text should appear vertically as a floating selection that you can then choose the "move tool" to move around to the final location and then anchor.

At least that's worked for me.... :)

Peace...

Tom

Tom Williams wrote:

While, we're on the topic of text, are there any tutorials on making text along an arc? The "curvebend" filter _almost_ does what I want but not quite.

Thanks...

Peace...

Tom

Harish Narayanan wrote:

You could try the "Text Circle" in the GIMP menu. Xtns > Script-fu > Logos > Text Circle I think.

Harish

Thanks... I've tried that but it curved the text TOO much... :)

Peace...

Tom

In the file area of the gimpwin-user yahoo group, there's a script I wrote that will fit text to a path. It won't write the text vertically the way you want, but it will work nicely for arcs. I think you need to be a member of the group to access the file. The url is: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gimpwin-users/files/Scripts/text-along-path.sc m

Guillaume

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Williams [mailto:tomdkat@comcast.net] Sent: 21 July 2003 05:02
To: Harish Narayanan
Cc: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] how to write vertical text

Harish Narayanan wrote:

You could try the "Text Circle" in the GIMP menu. Xtns >

Script-fu >

Logos > Text Circle I think.

Harish

Thanks... I've tried that but it curved the text TOO much... :)

Peace...

Tom

Hi,

Sven Neumann writes:

write vertical text, like
T
H
I
S

It cannot do this. At least not without major hassle like moving the glyphs around manually. I don't plan to add support for vertical text until Pango supports it.

Well, as someone pointed out, you can of course do it the way you did it in your mail. That is, enter a single glyph per line. For 1.2 you will need to use the GDynText plug-in since the basic text tool doesn't support multi-line text. I was however assuming you were speaking of text in asian scripts that are rendered top-to-bottom. You would not get far with the one-letter-per-line approach then.

Sven