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Set radius for curcular text path?

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Set radius for curcular text path? AlphaCat 25 Mar 18:37
  It can be done! AlphaCat 25 Mar 21:40
  Set radius for curcular text path? Joao S. O. Bueno 26 Mar 13:33
AlphaCat
2015-03-25 18:37:40 UTC (about 9 years ago)
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Set radius for curcular text path?

I use GIMP 2.8.14 in Windows 8.1. I've finally been able to get text to follow a curved path (having happened upon one of the contradictory explanations that actually works), but once the text outline appears along the path, its distance from the path appears to be a random phenomenon. This has worked fine for moderately curved text paths. However, I am trying to get text to follow a concentric circle around a circular object, but the text outline appears impossibly far from the object. I cannot figure out how to control the radius of the concentric text path. Is this possible using the Paths tool, or do I need a script? If that is the case, what script do I need?

Thank you.

AlphaCat
2015-03-25 21:40:16 UTC (about 9 years ago)
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It can be done!

Never mind. I have done some more digging and found the script I needed: text-along-path-0.4.py
It is a fine thing.

It can be downloaded from this page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-path-tools/files/scripts/

Thank you.

Joao S. O. Bueno
2015-03-26 13:33:11 UTC (about 9 years ago)

Set radius for curcular text path?

If you are trying to use this kind of effect, it is hardly to tell GIMP is the right tool for the job - You should create your text outlines in a vector based program - like Inkscape - for instance,
and paste them in GIMP for pixel based effects, if desired.

There _are_ ways of creating this effect in GIMP, as you found-out for yourself, but adjusting the
created path/text is always cumbersome. In Inkscape it is even possible to live-edit the text along a circle.

On 25 March 2015 at 15:37, AlphaCat wrote:

I use GIMP 2.8.14 in Windows 8.1. I've finally been able to get text to follow a curved path (having happened upon one of the contradictory explanations that actually works), but once the text outline appears along the path, its distance from the path appears to be a random phenomenon. This has worked fine for moderately curved text paths. However, I am trying to get text to follow a concentric circle around a circular object, but the text outline appears impossibly far from the object. I cannot figure out how to control the radius of the concentric text path. Is this possible using the Paths tool, or do I need a script? If that is the case, what script do I need?

Thank you.

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