new March 2026 - GEGL Metal Text

contrast_ · **Joined:** Oct 31, 2020 **Posts:** 2010

Hello GimpChat, We have a new GEGL plugin I made that is remarkably higher quality. It depends on my plugin lb:bevel (gegl bevel) the unofficial one, if you already have it overwrite it to get the latest version to ensure it works. As if you have a version before mid 2025 it won't work

This is Metal Text, an advanced text styling graph with easy adaptable sliders and a recolor mode.

(source code is below)

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yes it works on Windows 3.2, as we can see its file size is way larger

LOCATION TO PUT GEGL PLUGIN BINARIES

Windows

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C:\Users\(USERNAME)\AppData\Local\gegl-0.4\plug-ins

Linux

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~/.local/share/gegl-0.4/plug-ins

Linux(Flatpak includes Chromebook)

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~/.var/app/org.gimp.GIMP/data/gegl-0.4/plug-ins

then restart GIMP and go to "GEGL operation" or filters > text styling to find the new plugins

Source Code - For people who want to compile manually

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On Linux all you need is build_essentials and to run ./build_plugin_linux.sh

on Windows you need msys2
https://www.msys2.org/

and in the folder above the current directory you need this gettext folder unzipped

https://github.com/LinuxBeaver/LinuxBea ... ettext.zip

place it in the folder above the source code directory. So if your directory is C:\Documents/metal_text_gegl
the gettext folder is going in documents.

The windows build should work that way.

More previews of this based plugin:

also fun facts about the plugin. I came up with most of the graph last month when I was intimidated by metal text in Adobe tutorials/market place. That is what inspired me to make this beauty, but I didn't finalize it till last night. and another silly thing is I was coding this half asleep last night at 3:00am optimizing it. Showing I can write good GEGL code even when very tired. lol Well the plugin is done, there is more I could add in the future but this should be another and it is very complicated.

Enjoy and feel free to share feedback :clap

MareroQ · **Posted:** Mon Mar 23, 2026 4:03 pm **(#2)**

Hi Contrast
I've resolved the dependency issue for libintl-8.dll (without the additional gettext).

No dependency on libintl-8.dll

I need confirmation for Windows 11.

Not just for text:

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The attachment has been removed because other builds are available.

contrast_ · **Joined:** Oct 31, 2020 **Posts:** 2010

MareroQ wrote:

Hi Contrast
I've resolved the dependency issue for libintl-8.dll (without the additional gettext).

No dependency on libintl-8.dll
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I need confirmation for Windows 11.

Not just for text:
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interesting alt use and gettext alternative. Well I can't test but I remember deepseek made a script that forcefully removed all reference of libintl-8.dll and that didn't work. I suppose your method is beter

MareroQ · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2026 12:08 am **(#4)**

Practically, it's not a special method.

MSYS offers five build environments:
clang64
clangarm64
mingw32
mingw64
ucrt64

I've always used mingw64.
I didn't always build the environment from scratch, I just updated it [pacman -Syyuu | pacman -Syu].
Unfortunately, I didn't realize that support for mingw64 is already very limited.
GIMP 3.0.8 already started requiring the latest version of gettext, and the version in mingw64, even after a "refresh," is too old.
Since GIMP 3.2.0 has been compiled in the clang64 environment (for some time now), I built it as well – and that's it (the Gegl filters don't depend on libinitl-8.dll).