Re: [Gimp-user] how to make condensed text along path

2009-06-15 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Owen wrote: I wonder why you can't use Inkscape to do this? Because I tried. In inkscape you can make the text object as thing as you want, but as soon as you make it follow a path it automatically change back to the original ratio. ___ Gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] how to make condensed text along path

2009-06-15 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Zhang Weiwuzhangwe...@realss.com wrote: Owen wrote: I wonder why you can't use Inkscape to do this? Because I tried. Yeah - I tried Inkscape first too - there seems to be no way to condense the text once it's on a path. Did you try Scribus? Chris

Re: [Gimp-user] how to make condensed text along path

2009-06-13 Thread danny tauro
to make condensed text along path Hello. I followed the tutorial of how to make text along path: http://gimp-tutorials.net/node/114 My difficulty here is to make manually condensed text along path. I want the text so much thin that any font's condensed version could not do. To make

Re: [Gimp-user] how to make condensed text along path

2009-06-13 Thread Zhang Weiwu
danny tauro wrote: Not sure if this helps but after you create your text you can use the scale tool break the link between Width and height and scale the text on the width only. I did exactly this (use the scale tool on the tool box) but this would make the layer as changed text layer that text

Re: [Gimp-user] how to make condensed text along path

2009-06-13 Thread danny tauro
Yeah after the fact I looked at it more and I see your problem exactly. Perhaps a font editor that would let you change the font at the source? Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:33:56 +0800 From: zhangwe...@realss.com To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] how to make

Re: [Gimp-user] how to make condensed text along path

2009-06-13 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Zhang Weiwuzhangwe...@realss.com wrote: Hello. I followed the tutorial of how to make text along path: http://gimp-tutorials.net/node/114 My difficulty here is to make manually condensed text along path. I want the text so much thin that any font's condensed

Re: [Gimp-user] how to make condensed text along path

2009-06-13 Thread Owen
Yeah after the fact I looked at it more and I see your problem exactly. Perhaps a font editor that would let you change the font at the source? Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:33:56 +0800 From: zhangwe...@realss.com To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] how to make

Re: [Gimp-user] how to make condensed text along path

2009-06-13 Thread dtauro_trv
: [Gimp-user] how to make condensed text along path danny tauro wrote: Not sure if this helps but after you create your text you can use the scale tool break the link between Width and height and scale the text on the width only. I did exactly this (use the scale tool on the tool box

[Gimp-user] how to make condensed text along path

2009-06-12 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. I followed the tutorial of how to make text along path: http://gimp-tutorials.net/node/114 My difficulty here is to make manually condensed text along path. I want the text so much thin that any font's condensed version could not do. To make such condensed text, I either scale the text