I wanted to write a plugin that has more options than FreeType...

What came out of this fun with the code - you can check here:
https://www.gimpscripts.net/2021/07/boxtext-ver10.html
The functions grouped in the TEXT and Transformations tabs are important.
Other tabs can be changed/added/removed on request.

That is going to be an interesting plugin.

A couple of initial thoughts, without going onto the transformations ....
You default pattern is Metal Grit -1 AFAIK not a regular pattern and if not installed gives an error message.
The leading emoji in the default text might worry some users. Only shows here if an emoji font is installed - not guaranteed. I put in notocoloremoji.ttf
https://i.imgur.com/ZSftUjK.jpg

Indeed I don't have this font...

Hi Rich.

Thanks for trying and comments.
Corrected.

Add border (in px) is not working see screenshot => no border

Limiting letter spacing to -100 (up to 100 BTW) does not allow to invert the letters in the text, nor putting letter on top of each other to make some "strange" letters (look at my avatar), nor being able of adding space above 100 pixels on a "normal" sized image (6kx4k) will not produce the desired effect if we need to have bigger spacing..
In all case the result is not what is expected, letter spacing at -100 will produce only letters "glued" together, instead of what is in the preview
Preview at -100 letters are grouped


result are setting above, only one thing is line spacing 100 (positive 100), but result different from preview


Limiting line spacing... > same problems as above with a font size of 500 .... see screenshot....



result all at negative 100


My "recommendation": do not limit letter spacing, nor line spacing... at all
If people wants to put 10⁷⁸ quintilliards pixels in negative they should be able to do so... This reminds me the "Save for the Web" limitation, it was first at 2048 (AFAIK), then as a quick patch some one did put "2048*2", but quickly a lot of people were searching for "unli", so someone just remove the "2048*2 "and did put 10000, but still, it's a hard cap.... = useless for pano > https://github.com/auris/gimp-save-for- ... 9e0c9164a5

image is from unsplash original size is +>6000x+>4000
https://unsplash.com/photos/vigdQSTCkVU



In the hope that it will help you, BTW very nice looking plug in and very intuitive

Great plugin, thanks..

A bit more trial and error Needs plenty experimentation.



I see you added a revamped Follow Path plugin on gimpscripts as well. Works fine, (the flags). The preview is on a dark blue background. Is that intentional or is it my installation ?

In case anyone wonders. the background is B&P's WordArt plugin.

Thanks for all the feedback.

About preview:
Python image preview wasn't designed for everything.
Cli 345 - author of the fu_preview engine warns:

..."Limitations:
only for transform (not creative) plugins that don't add new layers"...

I'm just trying to get around this by manipulating the layer's visibility.

@Patrice.
I increased the range from 100 to 5000.


@Rich.
About follow path.
Now the appearance of the preview depends on the selected theme.
As I like the dark theme - blue (the default) seemed appropriate.
This can be changed by editing line 1022.
The look of the older version did not change with the theme.

Yes! great job, it's working nicely. Also the result is the same as preview
I will play with the other tabs in the coming days, I'll keep you updated
very nice plugin

While waiting for a new version plugin Faux3D by Skinnyhouse I added 3D text extrusion effect as per PixLab tutorial.
Thanks to Patrice.
Version 3.0 available on gimpscripts.net here.

Looks good MareroQ.

I am currently fixing the addition of kerning information to the lettering and then it's adding a tabbed version and good to go!

Wow, and I was wondering that I speak too much in this little tuto and people might not like it
I'm very glad that it gives you the idea to script it

It works awesomely on your BoxText, it's gorgeous

@Skinnyhouse
From the samples You provided, I am convinced that it will be the best tool for 3D text. I am waiting impatiently.

@Patrice
It should always be like that when it comes to a good tutorial.
With such a good source, it takes less time to write code (where I'm a bit interested) than reading the tutorial and executing it the first time.
Maybe contrariness: ..."No script, no G'MIC, no plugin of any kind."...

I can understand what you mean, I just tried to put good keywords for SEO purpose and shows visitors they can do it with native GIMP tools, I'll try to do it better next time.
Thank you very much for your kind words.

In Ver.4.1 I tried the second method of getting the pseudo 3D effect - motion blur this time.

@MareroQ, version 5 latest does not work anymore (I think starting version 4 but not sure) on my system
It does work on the ferrero appimage GIMP 2.10.25, though, but not on my distro GIMP 2.10.32
it's the only python script which is not showing up (Filters/Text), on the other hands heal tools, @Ofnuts' python-scripts and so are just fine.

I'm on MX Linux 21.1 , I use the more than excellent appimage from @Tas_mania to have python/mathmap as a loader for GIMP 2.10.32 if it can help

just curious, is the new version 3.0 that is listed here or is it 5.3, which is on gimpscripts.net?

It is the newest version.

On gimpscript.net you can download only the latest version

Hi PixLab - I tested MrQ BoxText on my MX LInux and it was missing some libs. I repacked and uploaded it to HERE.

MrQ's latest BoxText plugin from gimpscripts works with 'gimp-python2-fuse-overlay-launcher-mx-linux21-1.AppImage'
You will notice it's slightly bigger but has the same filename.