GIMP Version: 2.6.11
Operating System: Windows
OS Version: HAL 2000
GIMP Experience: Basic Level

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Hallo!

I've done text on a circle .. fairly simple. This arc thing I need a little help with. I'm trying to figure out why or how to center the text on the arc. It ends up getting mushed on the left hand side.

Plus, give me a refresher how how to added the fill to it or is that paint path?



Appreciate the help!

Text along path maps the text starting on the first point of the path (for circles it is often at 09:00).

To center, you have two solutions:

1) In the general case, restrict the path to where you want the text. Using the Path editor, add two points on the circle when you want the arc to start and stop, and remove the rest. The problem is creating an arc of the exact required length.

2) on a circle, there is an easier solution: you just rotate the generated path around the center of the circle. You can use the Rotate tool to rotate a path (third icon in the "Transform" choices in the tool options).

Once done: "Select/From path" and bucket-fill selection (or stroke path or whatever)

This is the one I was thinking of, but man is that going to be on big circle! Seriously! Guess that's the beauty of the canvas. You can crop it down.

To bad that even in the 2.7 version you can't move the text along a path to were you need it. *sigh*

But I'm glad you answered ofnuts .. it was one thread from another forum when I was searching that brought me here!

Back to the drawing board!

And the drawing board said ...

Here's my results.



Although I seem to get a lot of artifact and jaggies on the bend. Is there anyway to get a smoother result?

Mr Biggz,
Did you try using Filters > Distorts > Curve and bend? That works well also for curving text.

Not that well IMHO. Causes fuzziness. Working on paths, when possible of course, gives much sharper results.

I get much cleaner results by just "Path to selection"+ "bucket fill". What did you do?

I did that .. path to selection and then bucket filled. To bad I don't have Gimp open right now to show you the history. But that's what I did!

Why not sharpen the selection via the quick mask and then paste in FG or BG color? Or Threashold the Quick Mask.

Alan

The best way to do this is the way Ofnuts suggested.Then rotate the text around the circle.
Using a PATH will always give you smoother results around the edges.
That's why you should always stroke the path not the selection.
Then you should be able to use the paintbrush to fill the selection or gradient fill or whatever you want to use.

Here is how mine turned out -



XCF attached