put your text on this new path, and compare results: (a) when one of the anchors falls inside a character, or (b) inside the space between characters. stroke the circular path 1px, and, using that as a guide, create a poligonal path with 4 or more anchors, ample for your text create a 'good' circular path (ofn plugin) and put some text on it, with Gimp default 'text along path' In this case, with the guides in place, a circle from diameter or radius. What one really needs is (few) 'smooth anchors'-i.e., those with tangents ('handles') in a straight line: so, ofn-path-to-shape. Sorry, Rich, but generally speaking, I doubt very much that ofn-remove-tangents would improve matters in this situation (see *): as a matter of fact, in the path of this example, most of the anchors causing the problem haven't any tangents already. Same place as the ofn-text-along-path plugin Īnd while you are there try the ofn-path-to-shape plugin for really good circular paths. Applied that gives a new 'Cleaned' path (works here) One of ofnuts many plugins ofn-remove-tangents. Dunno.ĭistorted text along path.xcf (Size: 53.12 KB / Downloads: 72) Given how I created the circle, I'm not sure how that bump got there, maybe it's just a resolution nit. In another reply to my post, Carmen noticed a slight bump. But point taken, only curve one line for best results. Then text along path.Īlso, I sorta blew it as I was only using 2 lines when I found the issue, but when I put together the example I wasn't thinking and created 4 lines. Anyway, find attached xcf you requested.īTW, circle was created by creating a file, putting in vert and horiz guides, eclipse from center (specifying horiz on vert dimension) and finally select to path. You are correct, there is shortened line spacing. I had not saved the previously attached file, but I recreated another going from memory.
(lose some text formatting options though) separate text and separate paths is the way although maybe Ofnuts text along path plugin might handle that. Just a comment, multi line text is never a good idea. Text with adjusted line spacing to bring the 11111 closer to the path more in line with your screenshot, OKĬan you post a Gimp xcf (or xcfgz) with the path(s) and text layer. Text with reduced character spacing, which I thought might be the problem is reasonable This a Gimp 2.10.20 (linux) and replicated your path and scale (29 px text) as best I could. That does not look the case from your screenshot. The original tutorial can be found here (dead link).(06-26-2020, 08:25 PM)rich2005 Wrote: Very strange, with older versions of Gimp you could get that sort of effect if the path was a little too short. Playing around with the spacing options in the brush selection dialog, the color or using one of the animated brushes you can get very interesting results. Using a fuzzy brush and selecting a blue color here is the result for the selection made above. When all the options are selected you can finally click on OK. If you select Stroke Using a Paint Tool, you will be able to use the brush that you have selected. You will get a dialog allowing you to set many options for stroking your selection, including dashed lines and other fancy features.
When all the options are selected you can click on Edit -> Stroke. Choose also a color and you can play with the spacing option for the brush. Step 3 ¶Īfter you have the selection, choose a brush from the brush selection dialog. Use the selection tools to create a selection with the desired shape. When using the tools, holding shift at the beggining of the selection process will add the selection to what is already selected, while holding the control key will substract from it. There are several ways to make a selection, including all the tools in red shown above and select by color as explained on Selecting and removing one color. Step 1 ¶īefore doing that however we need to make a selection with the shape we want.
This option can be accesed on the image menu (right button click on the image), by going to Edit -> Stroke Selection. The solution is to use the selection stroking capabilities of GIMP.
However this doesn’t mean you can’t paint them, in fact there are some interesting options regarding this subject when it comes to GIMP. Since GIMP is an image manipulation program and not a painting program it doesn’t include tools to draw shapes like squares and circles. Text and images Copyright (C) 2002 Francisco Bustamante Hempe and may not be used without permission of the author.