Re: [Gimp-user] Text to path not working, text cut off

[Steve Kinney <admin pilobilus net>]

On 01/30/2013 08:44 PM, AllForGimpbut wrote:
> > nothing I try
> > "text to path"
> > Ouch.  That one looks like a genuine bug, all right.
> >
> > It looks like your best options might include:
> >
> > * Export your image, finished except for the circular text, as a PNG
> > file.  Import this file into Inkscape and do the text there.
> >
> > * Create your text circle in Inkscape, export it as a PNG file and
> > import that to the GIMP.
> >
> > * Hybrid:  Export your unfinished image as PNG.  Import this file
> > into Inkscape, resume work there and finish the text circle.  Export
> > just the text circle as a PNG, and add it as a layer to the GIMP
> > image in progress.

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> Thanks for your help Steve. Did my curved text in Inkscape. Imported the png to
> GIMP made the non text parts transparent and got what I needed

Yay!  I love it when a plan comes together.

In a perfect world, there would be a full time developer on the GIMP
and the Inkscape projects whose whole job would be to enhance the
inter-operation of these tools...  Maybe if I accidentally get rich
I will fund that.

:o)

Steve