I'm hoping that someone can help me with this.

I need to be able to place text along a curve. As far as I can tell
GIMP's "Text Along Path" command is the thing to use in order to make
this happen.

I have been trying to get this to work, but it usually gives me just a
lot of confused circles along the path. At one point I was able to get
the actual text onto a curved path, but it was in red outline and it
started off to the far left of the curve and was not centered. And
today when I'm trying it can't even get that to happen!

I just want to get text to curve so that I can have it combined with
another layer's graphic and make a curved banner image with text on
the banner.

I'm using GIMP 2.8.10.

Any suggestions?


Not A Graphics Guy

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Replying to my own question. I have found a script that does what I
need. It's available here: <https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-path-tools/files/scripts/>.

I'd spent a lot of time looking for advice on doing "Text Along Path"
by hand before posting here, and then I searched more. Finding this
script was pretty difficult. I found talk about it but couldn't find a
link easily.

This script works well. It's written in Python. I hope this posting
helps others who may need something like this. That link also goes to
some other Python scripts for GIMP that the author, ofnuts, has
posted.


Not A Graphics Guy

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On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 not a graphics guy
<[email protected]d> wrote:

Replying to my own question. I have found a script that does what I
need. It's available here: ><https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-path-tools/files/scripts/>.

This script works well. It's written in Python. I hope this posting
helps others who may need something like this.

thanks for finding this script.
A while ago I got a text-along-path 'text' but when I tried it a
second time ( and more ) it didn't work. Maybe I don't 'need' it, but
I'm going to use it in the future. Now I know it's so easy .... :-)

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On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 12:03:05 +0100, lisa <[email protected]>
wrote:

On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 not a graphics guy
<[email protected]d> wrote:

Replying to my own question. I have found a script that does what I
need. It's available here: >><https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-path-tools/files/scripts/>.

This script works well. It's written in Python. I hope this posting
helps others who may need something like this.

thanks for finding this script.
A while ago I got a text-along-path 'text' but when I tried it a
second time ( and more ) it didn't work. Maybe I don't 'need' it, but
I'm going to use it in the future. Now I know it's so easy .... :-)

you're welcome, and thanks to the guy "OfNuts" who wrote the script.


Not A Graphics Guy

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