Cool,

Haven't been doing too much Gimping lately. but I like to keep up on shiny things.

Thanks for the script, Graechan. I do have a couple of questions on the operation.

When I use a single line of text, the gradient is applied and I get the Chrome effect, as in the tutorial.


I'm have not looked to see how the tutorial does it, but would it better if the script applied the gradient to only the text/object, rather than the entire layer (autocrop layer, apply gradient, restore original layer size)?

When I use multiple lines, the gradient is applied to all the text and I lose the effect I got with the a single line.


Should the script apply the same effect on each text line, in order to get a consistent effect?

Do those seem like reasonable suggestions or am I off base?

Thanks, Grae, grabbing it for replacement!

The simplest solution would be to break each text line into a separate layer and apply the script to each.

I don't know python so I can't say the true mechanics, but to do what you're suggesting, the script would have to recognize a return character as an action point and be able to identify the height of each line based on the actual text (even in the same font, a line with "font" is taller than a line with "same" while a line with "separate" is taller in both the up and down dimensions because of the characters that go above and below the baseline).

hi
I love the script.
thanks
Doron