Random Font Text Script Rel5.2 [Improved GUI Options]

[Graechan]

Written by myself and GnuTux for a request made by K1TesseraEna

This script will create text with each letter having a different font. Options include user configurable font size, choice of text output options, choice of filter for random font selection, background pattern, random rotation of each letter, bumpmap, letter outline, curl, locked text color and font, bumpmap, chisel and inner shadow effects and text layer merging. The download includes some nice paper patterns. If you place them in your patterns folder, paper_4 will become your default pattern.

Menu Location Script-Fu/Logos/Random Font Text

; Rel 0.02 - Added Palette selection or (random RGB color choice) for color Choice; option for rotation threshold, option to bumbmap letters

; Rel 0.03 - Added 'Random color from random palette' to color choices, moved cornercurl back to toggle
; Added bumpmap, chisel and 'inner shadow' to 'Text Effects'
; Added the options to lock the font and color

; Rel 0.04 - Added Text output options

; Rel 0.05 - Added Text 0n cubes option{THIS OPTION REQUIRES GMIC}, option to square the text layers and option to add an individual Bkg color to layers

; Rel 0.5.1 - Improved rendering(thanks to David at Gmic)

; Rel 0.5.2 - Improved GUI, and added font name to layers if Text Output Options = Each Character On Separate Layer

Script is available from GimpScripts Random Font Text

Note!:

Included in the download are some nice paper patterns of which if loaded paper-4 will become your default bkg-pattern otherwise it will be set to crinkled paper

[SysTemX]

Graechan The Grand Wizard strikes again

[2-ton]

I hope I put everything in the right spot. I put the script in the script folder and the paper patterns in the pattern folder.
Used the gradient border to jazz it up a bit.

[Graechan]

Yes that's right 2-ton

[K1TesseraEna]

Graechan, you've done a terrific job even though it was a lot of skepticism
about some gimp PDB technicalities. At some point I doubted it was even possible at all.
Thank you!
I have a Q for you. Is it possible to sample font colors from a specific color palette?

[trandoductin]

[Graechan]

K1TesseraEna yes of course that's possible, actually my Rel2 version does just that

[GnuTux]

Looking good, Graechan!

[Graechan]

GnuTux your having fun with effects on the different letters, no bugs detected yet thank goodness,
but my palette widget failed

[GnuTux]

It would be cool to have an option to select RGB color via random number between 0 and 255.

Code:

(set! R (random 256))
(set! G (random 256))
(set! B (random 256))

[Graechan]

Now that Random works better, thanks to your code I could try it as it would be less likely to return so many grays
(set! random-color '((random 256) (random 256) (random 256)))
resulted in this

[GnuTux]

Yes. Looks good. Maybe you could also have upper and lower constraints set by the user.

[Graechan]

GnuTux could you put the code in the script and send it to me in a PM as it looks good

[sallyanne]

I can only find rel 1 on gimp script. You said there was a rel 2?
I have downloaded and installed rel 1 twice and still cannot find it in my gimp. Have done all the refreshing, restarting etc.

[molly]

Tux, I don't know how you got your letters all different textures. I downloaded Rel 1 and none of the options work except when I leave it at the default. When I click bold, curls, it comes out blank.
Here is what I get so far. Where is this Rel 2 I saw mentioned?

Merged and stroked

Only works on these settings, I tried the others and it comes out blank. rebooted several times and still only works on default. I couldn't find Rel2, just Rel-1.

[molly]

I can only find rel 1 on gimp script. You said there was a rel 2?
I have downloaded and installed rel 1 twice and still cannot find it in my gimp. Have done all the refreshing, restarting etc.

Did you look near the top of logos Sallyanne.

[Rod]

[sallyanne]

I can only find rel 1 on gimp script. You said there was a rel 2?
I have downloaded and installed rel 1 twice and still cannot find it in my gimp. Have done all the refreshing, restarting etc.

Did you look near the top of logos Sallyanne.

[ Image ]

Thanx Molly. No I didn't, I only looked at the alphabetical list.

[molly]

I did the same thing, that is why I asked. I then went to help > plug-in-browser and typed in the script name and sure enough it was there so then I looked up near the top.

[SysTemX]