Gimp Plugin for Bending Text

[Afznotermi]

I'm a relatively new user of GIMP, having successfully installed and used on my iMac at home. Is there a way to bend lines of text or just stripes in GIMP? can any one tell me that how to use Gimp Plugin for bending text? I need to make text go around a circle. Does anyone know how to do this? Do I have to do it by hand? Let me know the correct way for doing it. Thanks.

[Eric B]

There is one built-in way to bend text in an arc without losing quality or size: the Text along path option in the Text tool options. The trick is making a path that looks anything like a circle. You can try "creating the text and use the "curve bending" plug-in. (filters->distorts->curve bend), although, most likely you need the effect created by text circle (Xtns -> script-fu -> Logos -> Text Circle )"

[Glenny]

There are some really cool tricks, like taking a font, and turning it into a 3D shape with depth, rotating it to produce "solids" and other freakish things. If you can make a circular path, then while it's the active path, create your text layer (or activate its Text tool options in the context menu of the Layers dialog), then click the Text along path button in tool options. That gives you another path, so go to the paths dialog and turn it into a selection and fill (or stroke, or whatever) the selection.

[JonathanD]

mysphere.scm is a slight modification of the normal Sphere script included with GIMP, which lets you draw your sphere on a transparent background for pasting into other images. Text Circle is tricky because you can only run it to create a new text layer (from File->Create->Logos) but even then, the results it gives aren't clean at all -- far worse than the holes you sometimes get from arclayer.