circular path - what am i doing wrong?

babyjail · **Joined:** May 24, 2014 **Posts:** 2

GIMP Version: 2.8.10
Operating System: Linux
OS Version: CrunchBang 11
GIMP Experience: Beginner Level
URL or Image link: http://i.imgur.com/niAIGVv.png

hey fellas, seems like i'm too stupid to figure it out and i'm very sure i'm doing something very wrong, if somebody could help me out?

see the image, should be self-explanatory...

i want to align the text along the circular path, like shown in the image. why does gimp create the path, but with missing words, meaning: incomplete?

i did the following:

- create a circle using the circular selection tool
- convert the selection into a path
- edited the circular path so that i get an arch
- create the text
- in the layers-box, right-click on the text-layer and say "text along path"

all works fine, but the text is incomplete. don't wonder about the arch, it also didn't work when i used a full circle, same effect.

i already tried removing the spaces between the words, but that didn't help as well.

can't get my head around it...

any help would be greatly appreciated. and, please keep in mind, i'm relatively new to gimp (or picture editing at all).

thanks a bunch!

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

There is a bug in some versions of gimp where the text is truncated to 19 characters but your version seems recent enough...

You can try my text-along-path script. It gives you more control on what happens, and will keep your circles really circular (the standard method distorts the letters slighly).

babyjail · **Joined:** May 24, 2014 **Posts:** 2

Hah!

Thanks a bunch, works like a charm!

:jumpclap

SysTemX · **Joined:** Dec 08, 2013 **Posts:** 1088

Molly did a tutorial viewtopic.php?f=23&t=6720

SONBERT · **Joined:** Dec 31, 2013 **Posts:** 10

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Hi all please excuse my ignorance, I`m pretty new to all this, but I`m learning all the time. I`m trying to text along an arch as my image, but as you see, my text is all on one end, if I make the text bigger, I lose my text outside my new project. Can someone give me some help in how to get the text along the arch??. Many thanks for any help you can give me. Have a lovely day

Akros · **Joined:** Jan 10, 2013 **Posts:** 863

SONBERT wrote:

Can someone give me some help in how to get the text along the arch??. Many thanks for any help you can give me. Have a lovely day

You can try Ofnuts text-along-path script (http://gimp-path-tools.sourceforge.net/tools.shtml#text-along-path) .
Then, select:
Centered / Baseline options.

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

1) the regular "text-along-path" function doesn't center the text, it is always left-aligned. My scrpit (see above) lets you center the text, among other things

2) some early Gimp 2.8 releases truncate the text. Fixed since 2.8.8, IIRC.

SONBERT · **Joined:** Dec 31, 2013 **Posts:** 10

ofnuts wrote:

1) the regular "text-along-path" function doesn't center the text, it is always left-aligned. My scrpit (see above) lets you center the text, among other things

2) some early Gimp 2.8 releases truncate the text. Fixed since 2.8.8, IIRC.

Thanks very much for your help, can`t see a download for windows 8? and can you advice which file in gimp to put once downloaded. Once again many thanks for your help

Wallace · **Posted:** Fri Jul 25, 2014 10:46 am **(#9)**

SONBERT wrote:

Thanks very much for your help, can`t see a download for windows 8? and can you advice which file in gimp to put once downloaded. Once again many thanks for your help

It's a Python file that needs to be put into your Gimp user plugins folder. I'm using Win7 and it's located at... C:\Users\My User Name\.gimp-2.8\plug-ins
Not sure where it is on Win8, but it may be at that same location.

SONBERT · **Joined:** Dec 31, 2013 **Posts:** 10

Wallace wrote:

SONBERT wrote:

Thanks very much for your help, can`t see a download for windows 8? and can you advice which file in gimp to put once downloaded. Once again many thanks for your help

Go here, http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-pa ... s/scripts/ and look down the list of Ofnuts' path tools for the text-along-path-0.4.py file download.

It's a Python file that needs to be put into your Gimp user plugins folder. I'm using Win7 and it's located at... C:\Users\My User Name\.gimp-2.8\plug-ins
Not sure where it is on Win8, but it may be at that same location.

BTW... My internet security software always tells me that downloading files with a .py extension could do harm to my computer. I know Ofnuts and I also know that downloading anything he has offered will not harm my machine.

Thanks very much for taking the time, to explain this to me, I now understand, what to do, unfortunately, when I click on the text along path 0.4py, it says download with start in 5 secs, and counts down to zero, and then takes me to an information page about the download? I`ll try and figure it out, I`m sorry to keep asking for help but I`m just finding my way with this programme and am really enjoying using it. Thanks for all your help.