Text along path

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

ofnuts wrote:

molly wrote:

I am using Gimp-2.6.12 in Linux Fedora 16

Can you start Gimp from a terminal session, and see if you get any messages in the terminal session when the script runs?

I can try but I never did that before so someone will have to tell me how to do it. I have only been using Fedora a couple of months so still learning.

pogogogo · **Joined:** Apr 22, 2010 **Posts:** 123

ofnuts wrote:

pogogogo wrote:

I have a message.

Very strange. The second message come from the destructor of the Text object. So the text object has been created. But the workimage is created in its initializer, so it should be there. Unless the problem is indeed when creating this image. Can you try to change the line:

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self.workImage=gimp.Image(fontSize*4, fontSize*4, RGB)

to

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self.workImage=gimp.Image(int(fontSize*4),int(fontSize*4), RGB)

After changing everything is 2xOK! :hi5

It works in ubuntu and windows too.
Many thanks for all of your scripts. :tyspin

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14729 **Location:** USA

ofnuts wrote:

pogogogo wrote:

I have a message.

Very strange. The second message come from the destructor of the Text object. So the text object has been created. But the workimage is created in its initializer, so it should be there. Unless the problem is indeed when creating this image. Can you try to change the line:

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self.workImage=gimp.Image(fontSize*4, fontSize*4, RGB)

to

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self.workImage=gimp.Image(int(fontSize*4),int(fontSize*4), RGB)

This works for Gimp-2.7 versions.

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4758

OK, updated Sourceforge with version 0.1...

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14729 **Location:** USA

Thanks Ofnuts! Great script.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

pogogogo wrote:

The script works for me only with python 2.6.No matter what version of Gimp :noiseblower

Yours is perfect pogogogo

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

I deleted the 0.0 plug-in after playing with it for days and I am now trying the 0.1 from source forge.
So far, this is as far as I got with it. In the paths dialog, every letter is on a different layer and some of them are faded and unreadable. I don't know what I am doing wrong.
Would someone who is having good luck, like pogogogo...anyone do a screen shot of the text-along-path screen so I can see what settings you used.
Also, how do I stroke the path with a color if they are all on different layers?
Thanks in advance.

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4758

molly wrote:

I deleted the 0.0 plug-in after playing with it for days and I am now trying the 0.1 from source forge.
So far, this is as far as I got with it. In the paths dialog, every letter is on a different layer and some of them are faded and unreadable. I don't know what I am doing wrong.
Would someone who is having good luck, like pogogogo...anyone do a screen shot of the text-along-path screen so I can see what settings you used.
Also, how do I stroke the path with a color if they are all on different layers?
Thanks in advance.

You must have used "Yes" to "Keep character paths" (as well as to "Keep upright"). This isn't necessary, a complete path for the whole string is always produced (it should be at the bottom of your paths list...). Actually, since you haven't clicked on the eye icons on the paths in the paths list, what you see there is the "master" path.

The "faint" characters may be due to overlapping paths with previous attempts

There is an option to leave individual character paths in because it can be useful at times (want to use different colors, or fix selections where characters overlap).

Start with the defaults (besides text/font, which are mandatory))...

Erisian · **Posted:** Tue Apr 10, 2012 9:03 am **(#49)**

Ofnuts - Golden Spiral, path-mirror and path-spread all show up in my plugin browser, this is the only one that doesn't. Is there anything at all that you did with those that you forgot with this one? Could it have anything to do with my insistence on sticking to 2.6.11?

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4758

Erisian wrote:

Ofnuts - Golden Spiral, path-mirror and path-spread all show up in my plugin browser, this is the only one that doesn't. Is there anything at all that you did with those that you forgot with this one? Could it have anything to do with my insistence on sticking to 2.6.11?

It is displays fine in both my python-fu and script-fu browsers. If it doesn't show up on your setup it is likely because it didn't register properly due to som execution/syntax error, but then this normally produces messages visible if you start gimp with gimp-console. Did you at least upgrade to version 0.1?

You can check that the file didn't get damaged by starting a command prompt, navigating to your plugin directory, and run (assuming your python interpreter has a "python" executable of course):

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python text-along-path.py

This should answer something like:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "text-along-path.py", line 28, in <module>
    from gimpfu import *
ImportError: No module named gimpfu

This error is normal, "gimpfu" in only defined when running as a Gimp plugin, but the Gimpfu module is loaded only after the file has been parsed and found to not contain any syntax errors. So if it shows up the file is clean.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

getting there.

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4758

molly wrote:

getting there.

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Erisian · **Posted:** Tue Apr 10, 2012 9:59 am **(#53)**

Nice one molly! :jumpclap

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

thanks, erisian,
nice ofnuts, how do you keep your text so nice and close, mine is all spread out.

Alonte · **Joined:** Jun 04, 2011 **Posts:** 254

do i download all of them or just the text along path one?

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Alonte wrote:

do i download all of them or just the text along path one?

Alonte, I just downloaded the text along path.

Alonte · **Joined:** Jun 04, 2011 **Posts:** 254

ok thanks

Erisian · **Posted:** Tue Apr 10, 2012 12:39 pm **(#59)**

OK, so on my computer running XP, it almost works in 2.7.6 portable but crashes with the following error message.

However, I reinstalled it in 2.6.11 and I noticed that when querying new plugins, it skipped past this one very quickly.

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4758

molly wrote:

thanks, erisian,
nice ofnuts, how do you keep your text so nice and close, mine is all spread out.

Layout "Centered" which is the default (you must be using "Filled")

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