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	how to make condensed text along path by Zhang Weiwu :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message 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 layer with layer scale tool, or I convert the text to path and scale the path. However after scaling layer or path, "Text along path" no longer apply. Any idea? thanks in advance for hints. Attached is the "text along path" I made, with the ordinary text, not condensed (only 1.4KB). _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@... https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user test.png (1K) Download Attachment
	Re: how to make condensed text along path by danny tauro :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message Some parts of this message have been removed. Learn more about Nabble's security policy. 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. > From: zhangweiwu@... > To: gimp-user@... > Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:05:12 +0800 > Subject: [Gimp-user] how 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 such condensed text, I either scale the text layer with layer scale > tool, or I convert the text to path and scale the path. However after > scaling layer or path, "Text along path" no longer apply. > > Any idea? thanks in advance for hints. > > Attached is the "text along path" I made, with the ordinary text, not > condensed (only 1.4KB). Windows Live helps you keep up with all your friends, in one place. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@... https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
	Re: how to make condensed text along path by Zhang Weiwu :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message 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 layer tool "Text along path" could not work on, unless I allow "text" tool to revert my changes to make it a text layer again, which reverts height/width ratio. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@... https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
	Re: how to make condensed text along path by danny tauro :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message Some parts of this message have been removed. Learn more about Nabble's security policy. 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: zhangweiwu@... > To: gimp-user@... > Subject: Re: [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) but this would > make the layer as "changed text layer" that text layer tool "Text along > path" could not work on, unless I allow "text" tool to revert my changes > to make it a text layer again, which reverts height/width ratio. > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@... > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user Create a cool, new character for your Windows Live™ Messenger. Check it out _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@... https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
	Re: how to make condensed text along path by Chris Mohler :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Zhang Weiwu<zhangweiwu@...> 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 version could not do. To > make such condensed text, I either scale the text layer with layer scale > tool, or I convert the text to path and scale the path. However after > scaling layer or path, "Text along path" no longer apply. > > Any idea? thanks in advance for hints. I'm not sure of any way to do this within GIMP. I was able to to this in Scribus[1] however, by following these instructions: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Text_on_a_Path Then I was able to set the text width to 50%. Then selecting the text, doing Object->Convert->To Path, then File->Export->SVG I was able to make a SVG file that could be opened inside of GIMP. It's a somewhat clumsy method, but maybe it will work? Chris [1] http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=download _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@... https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
	Re: how to make condensed text along path by Owen-24 :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message > > 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: zhangweiwu@... >> To: gimp-user@... >> Subject: Re: [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) but this >> would >> make the layer as "changed text layer" that text layer tool "Text >> along >> path" could not work on, unless I allow "text" tool to revert my >> changes >> to make it a text layer again, which reverts height/width ratio. Hi, I wonder why you can't use Inkscape to do this? -- Owen _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@... https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
	Re: how to make condensed text along path by danny tauro :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message Fontwork in Open office will do it too...then just copy and paste into Gimp it works on windows at least. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Owen" <rcook@...> Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 5:34 PM To: <gimp-user@...> Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] how to make condensed text along path > >> >> 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: zhangweiwu@... >>> To: gimp-user@... >>> Subject: Re: [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) but this >>> would >>> make the layer as "changed text layer" that text layer tool "Text >>> along >>> path" could not work on, unless I allow "text" tool to revert my >>> changes >>> to make it a text layer again, which reverts height/width ratio. > > > > Hi, > > > I wonder why you can't use Inkscape to do this? > > -- > > > > Owen > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@... > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@... https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
	Re: how to make condensed text along path by Zhang Weiwu :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message 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 mailing list Gimp-user@... https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
	Re: how to make condensed text along path by Chris Mohler :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Zhang Weiwu<zhangweiwu@...> 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 _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@... https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user