Re: [Gimp-user] Anchor for Text along Path?
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 18:30 -0700, Dave Jarvis wrote: Hi, Darren. 2. There is a edit path points tool, select it, then click successive points to achieve the degree of arc you want (can be any complex curve actually). Playing around with it to get it aligned to the oval selection that I desire will be a total pain, not to mention an imperfect alignment. I will give it a try, though. I was able to do what you're asking quite easily, I just clicked path points along the edge of my oval. If I misplaced a point slightly, I moved it to be precisely on the curve tangent. I used zoom 400x. 3. Select your text once again using the text tool and click text to path button. 4. Create a new layer. 5. Hide your original text layer. Open the paths dialog and ensure the path you just created is selected. 6. Select-Selection from Path Good up until here. 7. Fill the selection on the new layer with desired color. 8. Deselect the path so its no longer visible. Not quite sure what you mean here. Instead, I: a. clicked on the text layer b. opened the text tool dialog c. clicked Text along Path Yeah, but what gimp does is not actually place text on the path/curve, instead it creates a selection of the text image that you then have to fill with paint. It's a bit unintuitive at first and I had trouble until I found someone elses steps to get it right. It gave me the text along a curve, but alignment to the original image's oval going to be nasty business. Like I said, if you place the path points yourself, say 5 or 6 of them is all that's needed, its not really that hard, but might take a couple of attempts. At least this is about the only way in gimp 2.3 that I know of. Good luck! Thanks for the tips, though. If anyone has any other ideas that avoid manually attempting to align paths against a backdrop, I'm all ears (er, eyes). Thanks! Dave ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Anchor for Text along Path?
One thing you can try is to edit the path points where exactly you want them to be. The entire steps I use to do this are (roughly). 1. Using the text tool, write my text as a new layer, select font, color, etc. 2. There is a edit path points tool, select it, then click successive points to achieve the degree of arc you want (can be any complex curve actually). 3. Select your text once again using the text tool and click text to path button. 4. Create a new layer. 5. Hide your original text layer. Open the paths dialog and ensure the path you just created is selected. 6. Select-Selection from Path 7. Fill the selection on the new layer with desired color. 8. Deselect the path so its no longer visible. Hope this helps in part, or in whole. Darren - Original Message - From: Dave Jarvis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 8:40 PM Subject: [Gimp-user] Anchor for Text along Path? Hi, Using GIMP 2.3, how do I change the anchor location for where the path along text is generated? (If there is one ...?) Here is a picture of what is happening: http://joot.com/dave/move-text-along-path.png What I would like is to move the text made from the path (encircled in red along the top of the PNG) to the location of the big red X. Notice that the selection is an oval, not a circle, so I cannot simply rotate the entire layer with the text-path. (I have done so in the past, for circles, but it still felt like cheating.) It strikes me that there should be a way to set the anchor point on the selected path so that when I click the Text along Path button, the text is rendered where I would like, rather than along the top-left of the oval's arc. I have tried searching FAQs, Google and docs.gimp.org for this wonderful new button. Nada. Any help is muchly appreciated. Sincerely, Dave Jarvis ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.3.11 work with GTK+ 2.6?
That's good to know. The GAIM release notes for 1.5 on windows said there is a major problem in gtk 2.8+(glib) preventing it from connecting. Oddly enough, I'm about to install ubuntu anyway. I'd revert back to gimp 2.2, but I need the text-to-path features in 2.3, hmmm. tricky rubiks cube! I guess I'll wait some and see what unfolds. Thanks! Darren Tim Jedlicka wrote: On 9/14/06, *Darren Govoni* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Apparently my GAIM does not work with GTK+ 2.8 when I upgraded to it for gimp 2.3.11. Any chance Gimp 2.3.11 will work with GTK+ 2.6? For what it is worth, my gaim is working with gtk+ and gimp 2.3.11 (I know you may not be using ubuntu - but letting you know it is possible): Package: gaim Version: 1: 1.5.0+1.5.1cvs20051015-1ubuntu10 Package: libgtk2.0-common Version: 2.8.17-1ubuntu5 -- Tim Jedlicka, Network Entomologist [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.galifree.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Selection problem on 2.3.11?
Hi, I just upgraded from 2.2 to 2.3.11. Btw, Thanks for the path-to-text ability, works great! the problem I'm having is that before, I could choose a layer and using the magic wand selector, I could isolate my selection to only content in that layer with regards to "empty" space around it. But now, it seems to pass through to the lowest visible layer which makes it impossible to do some editing on the current chosen layer. Is this a problem? or is there a new way to do what was easy before? I don't want to have to turn all the other layers off to select the continuous empty area of a layer. Thanks, Darren ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Selection problem on 2.3.11?
Thanks Sven! Btw, I love the subtle design changes you guys made in terms of the menus and such. Much more streamlined and less redundant than before. I really like it! Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 07:30 -0400, Darren Govoni wrote: I just upgraded from 2.2 to 2.3.11. Btw, Thanks for the path-to-text ability, works great! Upgrading to 2.3. is a rather bad idea since this is an unstable development snapshot. You better keep 2.2 around for real work. the problem I'm having is that before, I could choose a layer and using the magic wand selector, I could isolate my selection to only content in that layer with regards to empty space around it. But now, it seems to pass through to the lowest visible layer which makes it impossible to do some editing on the current chosen layer. Is this a problem? Toggle off Sample merged in the tool options. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
