text along a path produces wierd format

[Ivan]

Hi everyone,
i am stuck with a problem in which "text along path"function produces unwabted change. If the text is ABCDEFG, after conversion to follow a ptah i.e. circle it is turned upside down and in the reverse order GFEDCBA. I have checked the steps in number of youtube tutorials but I cant see the reason why my GIMP is doing this. thanks for help.

[Blighty]

A path has a direction. (And a start point).

For a circle, there is a trick which effectively reverses the direction of a path. Use the the Flip Tool, set to path mode, to flip the path vertically. Then start again fitting text to the path.

[rich2005]

With screenshots

1. The reversed path has been raised as a bug. Still not fixed. Without flipping the path you get

   

2. This shows the requirements for flipping a circular path. 
Flip tool - Path mode - Vertical and a one click only in the canvas.

   

Be careful about carriage returns (Enter key) in the on screen text tool.

3. A CR before text will depress text

   

4. A CR after text will raise text

   

A little video I made for someone as a demo https://youtu.be/7fumw57Z2H8 might help. That also shows Ofnuts text tool plugin. Get that from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-pat...s/scripts/ ofn-text-along-path.zip
Updated recently, about four down the list
and 
another more general demo showing rotating the text around the circle https://youtu.be/pukUIefS0xI

[Ivan]

Thanks a lot Rich, got it working :-)

Ivan

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(11-28-2018, 04:35 PM)Blighty Wrote: A path has a direction. (And a start point).

For a circle, there is a trick which effectively reverses the direction of a path. Use the the Flip Tool, set to path mode, to flip the path vertically. Then start again fitting text to the path.

Thanks Blighty,

with your hint I got it OK.


Ivan