GIMP Version: 2.8.14
Operating System: Windows
GIMP Experience: Basic Level

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Ofnuts' TEXT ALONG A PATH

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Hi Ofnuts!

Is it possible to have an "extension" of your excellent script "Text along a path" to draw:
- a brush
- an image
- a pattern
along a path as it is for text?

Maybe you will say: this function is already there! if so, phantastic!

I just played a bit with your script using webdings/wingdings for text: very interesting outcomes!

Thanks

thanks Wallace, but there is no equivalent possibilities inside a script

I don't know of any scripts that will allow you to stroke a path using a pattern or an image. That is not related to the paint tools.
However, there may be some sort of Python Plugin developed by Ofnuts, which does do what you're asking.
Maybe Ofnuts will offer you a suggestions, other then what I already have.

ya, that's a reason why I addressed this post primarily to Ofnuts (see first line).
He is a magician of path management, and what I like to have is the same possibility he's offering for text also for other gimp objects, like as I said brushes, patterns, images, ...
I should tell youi that my interest came out exactly from the poor stroking possibilities available in a script compared with those you mentioned for an interactive use.

There is a plugin follow-path
http://www.arakne.es/en/dessign/gimp-pl ... llow-path/

a bit of searching and AFAIK this is the most recent version follow-path5
http://www.arakne.es/en/2014/04/ down at the bottom of that page

Dialog looks like this

That is a small 'icon' layer. Draw your path right to left or rotate the 'icon'

With a new white layer under looks like this.

thanks Rich.
is it capable of "following" also the "curvature" (as Ofnuts filter does)?
(not shown in your example)

That is the orientate (orient sic)-on path button - toggle that off.

This might/might not do what you want. Good for small discrete patterns. Do not expect to join a pattern up seamlessly,

it seems to be good...

hmm, giving a look to the pdb function to call that filter a looong series of parameters is involved, I guess the author should better create one or more "simpler" interfaces: the user in the majority of cases will just need the 3-4 parameters that are changed in the interactive call...
can you imagine the "readability" of a filter that lists more than 50(!) parameters (for each call)?
it's not for me
I was born with the Golden Rule that a mind is capable of mastering up to seven variables at a time...

What would you want the script to do for brush/image that stroking with a brush and "emulate brush dynamics" with the proper dynamics(*) doesn't already do?

(*) in particular mapping angle to direction (the "Track direction" standard dynamics)

the pdb stroking function available to be called inside a script does not have all the capabilities available online (dynamics set to "track direction" only provides the capability to follow the line of the path, but does not provide the change in the "positioning"/"angle": the brush is painting always in the same shape)

Ah, so you want the function to call it from another script....

yes, Ofnuts, I very rarely use Gimp functions interactively; when I like some function I create a script to use it (I'm a lazy boy....)

Saulgoode wrote a filter to warp text perhaps that could be utilized to write a new filter to use an image. Actually misshaping the images as they curve the path in a single line made into a filter would be very interesting indeed.