GIMP Version: 2.8.16
Operating System: Windows
OS Version: Windows 10
GIMP Experience: Intermediate Level

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so I've been trying to wrap text around this little design here, and at first it was working just fine, but now the text is floating off a-ways from the path itself?

odd placement like this isn't the first time this has happened either. when I was working with this design on a different canvas and using different fonts earlier, the first font I tried wrapped around the path perfectly fine. it even worked when I flipped the 'direction' of the path so more text could wrap below the implied circle of the design right-side-up. when I tried the same path-flipping trick (on the SAME path) later with a different font, the text flipped inside the path rather than outside, visibly pinching the bottom text compared to the top text.

honestly I don't do much with text or graphic design in general, so a lot of the more 'rigid/grid-based' approaches are beyond me. thus, this may be an easy fix, but I have no clue what I could have done to cause this in the first place :/

IMHO it works perfectly, but you have a stray carriage return at the end (after "it's"), making Gimp think your text is on two lines (and therefore putting the path somewhere between the two lines.

You really need to give more information on how you are creating text-along-path.

That text looks like it came from Ofnuts text-along-path plugin.

The regular Gimp text-along-path is affected depending how the text layer is created. A carriage return (enter key) does shift the text above or below the path.

@ofnuts @rich2005 I didn't hit enter before or after the text at all, which is what really confused me at first. though your replies did give me the idea to mess around with the text box sizing, and I think that's where the problem is. guess I'll have to remember to just single-click a text box into existence from now on rather than arbitrarily draw it out, or else I'll have problems like this again, aha

as for rich2005's reply specifically, it honestly didn't occur to me to describe how I was creating text-along-path, so I apologize for the vagueness there. I was just following PhotoAdvanced's Text Along Path - GIMP 2.8 Tutorial For Beginners video (haven't posted enough here to add links, sorry,,). as far as I can remember, I don't have any plug-ins