This is not really a new idea.
Since I was a very young age, I have seen text written in Vietnamese for "Happy New Years" and Other words for weddings fit inside circles.
So I thought I'd do a simple script that does this.
Warning: if your radius is too big it'll run out of space to fit inside image and I have experienced color spills not sure why yet.

But here it is, will be available under Images/Script-Fu/Words To Circles...
(release #7)

It'll use current foreground color for the text, and you can choose background color to draw circles with.
here are options.


Here's a sample run


of course after it runs you can move layers around to place them however you like maybe downward vertically to create a more asian text feel.

Enjoy.

another for fun

I made the font size 200 before perspective-ing so that it's smoother previously size 50.

i'll change them to let and see if that improves

Edit: Okay done all let now and sets now instead of define.
Edit: Okay I also rounded values so maybe that'll solve the gdouble error that Wallace is seeing.

Oh dear - keeps crashing; details below.
Error message
GIMP Warning
Plug-In 'Words To Circles' left image undo in inconsistent state, closing open undo groups.

Words To Circles Warning
Error while executing script-fu-words-to-circles:

Error: ( : 1) Procedure execution of gimp-item-transform-perspective failed on invalid input arguments: Procedure 'gimp-item-transform-perspective' has been called with value '-1.#IND00' for argument 'y1' (#5, type gdouble). This value is out of range.

Screenshots of Script Details on a 1600 x 1200 canvas



Image outcome

did you try the latest version...i thought rounding would've solved the gdouble problem.

Pretty sure it was the latest version I downloaded - it was only 30 minutes ago.

i was able to reproduce this problem ... looking into it.

Didnt like my u or n but i like the filter.

To give your script every chance of working from default do some math for the user by adding or changeing
(let*
(
(width (car (gimp-image-width image)))
(height (car (gimp-image-height image)))
(center-x (if (= center-x -1) (/ width 2) center-x))
(center-y (if (= center-y -1) (/ height 2) center-y))
)

SF-ADJUSTMENT "Center X (-1 = Image X Center)" '(-1 -1 2000 1 10 1 0)
SF-ADJUSTMENT "Center Y (-1 = Image Y Center)" '(-1 -1 2000 1 10 1 0)

That's a big problem.... there's something seriously wrong with my script and i don't know why it's doing it.. i am using pythagorean theorem and
getting the text width of the whole word before hand to calculate it to fit into a circle....but for some reason..it's returning x values that are outside of my radius... man...

Ahh if i capitalize the word it throws the last letter off the circle. If i dont use a cap for first letter it works.

The only thing i can think of is ... create a text layer with the whole word ...gives a different width
then the sum of widths of text layers of single letters.... but i don't know how to solve that right now.

Thats the ticket. You need to use all caps or all small letters in each word or you can use caps at the end or middle of the word. Weird.