Wallace wrote:
molly wrote:
Thank you kit and Wallace... So once the text layer has been edited, you have to make a selection before you send to path if you want to stroke it with a path.
I believe that you're correct.
Once a text layer has been edited, you have to make a path form some kind of selection to be able to stroke the text along a path.
Wait a minute.... We are confusing issues here. There is 1) "text to path" where we obtain the outline of the text as a path, and 2) "text along path" where a path that is the outline of the text is distorted to follow a path.
For 1), if the text layer has become a plain bitmap layer, it is still possible to obtain an approximate outline path using "Layer/Transparency/Alpha to selection" on the layer and then "Select/To path". But it won't be as clean/sharp as the path obtained directly from a true text layer.
For 2) "Text along path" extracts the path from the text layer and then warps it to follow a path. But there is no standard tool to warp a random path (such as the one you can recover in 1)) along another path (there are scripts for this...)(*). However in this case if you still have the font re-creating the original text layer doesn't take long.
(*) at least the one I have on my disk