Monday 16 September 2019

Version 1.6 of 'ofn-text-along-path' released

After writing the sequel to my Text along a circular path tutorial, i had a little conversation with ofnuts and he gave me a few tips how to improve it.


Wednesday 4 September 2019

Text along a circle II [path directions explained]



Of all blog entries, my 'Text along a circular path' tutorial gets the most hits.
In the statistics section of this blogspot i can see what people searched for, and apparently putting text on a path is a big problem (popular search terms are circular text and curved text).

One of the more esoteric aspects of text along path is putting two aligned sets of text on the same circular path, but with each set of text going in a different direction.

Gimp's native 'Text along path' functionality can only do this with fonts that are perfectly centered on all characters.

With ofnuts text along path plug-in installed, this is much easier, because you get a lot of different Height Reference options, how to map your text to the path.

But this doesnt help with finding out how to change direction of your text.

So here is the secret: