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Author:  Nidhogg [ Tue Oct 22, 2019 7:13 am ]
Post subject:  Outline Layer Contents by Ofnuts
Ofnuts, one of the great grandmasters in Gimpluggin' universe has delighted us, once again with a useful new python plug-in called "Outline Layer Contents". It's like one of the Layer Effects styles, stroke but better! At least considering this: You have 3 different join styles. Miter, Round and Bevel.

Thanks man. :coolthup

Tested with Arial Heavy 150
Line Width 16, outside the border. (The other option is over the border.)
Miter limit 2, to prevent spikes. using 0 or 1 with miter join style turns the outline to bevel style.
I'm wondering why the other spike is taller. Big M is not completely symmetrical?

Image
Author:  ofnuts [ Tue Oct 22, 2019 8:29 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Outline Layer Contents by Ofnuts
The spikes are actually from the angles under the M. The outline produced is like this (the white line is the actual text border):

Attachment:
Miter.png
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I can't think of a good way to make sure this never happens, but you can always reduce the miter limit (2 is a bit excessive, 8 would have been enough).

Since your "M" looks symmetric, my hypothesis is that you did the outline on a rasterized layer, not on the original text layer. On the latter, the script uses the path from the text, while with a rasterized layer, it does an alpha-to-selection and select-to-path, and in that case the symmetry of anchors is far from guaranteed.

This said, nothing earth-shattering in the script, everything can be done manually in a few clicks.
Author:  Nidhogg [ Wed Oct 23, 2019 11:01 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Outline Layer Contents by Ofnuts
Yeah, didn't realize the layer had been rasterized with layer to image size before running the plug-in.
Thanks for clarification, works perfectly.
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