How do you make text circle around a circle???

[snl_9527]

Hello, I’ve been learning GIMP for two weeks and now I’m stuck in one place, and that’s that I need to wrap the text around a circle, in GIMP, it never becomes a complete circle

(The blue line is my path, and the red line is the path around the text)

Strangely, no matter how I adjust the size of the text, it still doesn’t work
It seems that it can only reach a semicircle

[rich2005]

One way....

Go into the View menu and toggle Show All  That lets you see outside the canvas area.
Space the text out using the Text Tool letter spacing setting. A bit of trial and error but the length about 90% of the circumference (pi x diameter in pixels) Unfortunately in Gimp 2.10 you cannot place guides outside the canvas so use the ruler. When complete, if you want toggle Show All off.
as an example:

   

Ahh.. using Gimp 3.0 - Exactly the same but if you want you can place guides outside the canvas area. (you are using Android / Gimp RC3 - really? )

[Krikor]

Another alternative, although I think it is not for the OP who is using a development version 3.0 RC1.
But another user, using version 2.10, may have the same interest.

If I am not mistaken, using the ofn-text-alog-path plugin with the Layout option as Justify, and adding a space before the first number ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ) would produce the text centering around the circle.

[Ofnuts]

(12-15-2024, 01:51 PM)Krikor Wrote: Another alternative, although I think it is not for the OP who is using a development version 3.0 RC1.
But another user, using version 2.10, may have the same interest.

If I am not mistaken, using the ofn-text-alog-path plugin with the Layout option as Justify, and adding a space before the first number ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ) would produce the text centering around the circle.

Would be better to use the "Multi" option, after using ofn-path-to-shape to produce the "support paths" at regular intervals. 

   

Because what the OP appears to want isn't a text spread out on a circle, it is digits at regular intervals.

[Krikor]

(12-15-2024, 02:36 PM)Ofnuts Wrote:

(12-15-2024, 01:51 PM)Krikor Wrote: Another alternative, although I think it is not for the OP who is using a development version 3.0 RC1.
But another user, using version 2.10, may have the same interest.

If I am not mistaken, using the ofn-text-alog-path plugin with the Layout option as Justify, and adding a space before the first number ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ) would produce the text centering around the circle.

Would be better to use the "Multi" option, after using ofn-path-to-shape to produce the "support paths" at regular intervals. 



Because what the OP appears to want isn't a text spread out on a circle, it is digits at regular intervals.

But unless I'm mistaken, which is quite possible, using the ofn-text-alog-path plugin also places the digits at regular intervals.

The images below demonstrate:

• The application of the 'Multi" option, after using ofn-path-to-shape' - in red;
  
• The application of ofn-text-alog-path - in blue;
  
• The overlap of both techniques.
  

                 

[Ofnuts]

(12-15-2024, 06:47 PM)Krikor Wrote:

(12-15-2024, 02:36 PM)Ofnuts Wrote:

(12-15-2024, 01:51 PM)Krikor Wrote: Another alternative, although I think it is not for the OP who is using a development version 3.0 RC1.
But another user, using version 2.10, may have the same interest.

If I am not mistaken, using the ofn-text-alog-path plugin with the Layout option as Justify, and adding a space before the first number ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ) would produce the text centering around the circle.

Would be better to use the "Multi" option, after using ofn-path-to-shape to produce the "support paths" at regular intervals. 



Because what the OP appears to want isn't a text spread out on a circle, it is digits at regular intervals.

But unless I'm mistaken, which is quite possible, using the ofn-text-alog-path plugin also places the digits at regular intervals.

The images below demonstrate:

• The application of the 'Multi" option, after using ofn-path-to-shape' - in red;
  
• The application of ofn-text-alog-path - in blue;
  
• The overlap of both techniques.
  

    

Yes but in this case only because the digits are all the same width (which is I admit the usual case for digits). But replace the digits by numbers (1..12), or letters (I,II, III ... IX, X, XI, XII) and the  single text-along-path fails while the multi-path still works.