How to wrap paragraph text in an image

[arun67]

Hi All,

I'd like to wrap text in an outline based image. So for example, I have some text paragraph :
My house is red - a little house;
A happy child am I.
I laugh and play the whole day long,
I hardly ever cry.

I have a tree, a green, green tree,
To shade me from the sun;
And under it I often sit,
When all my play is done.

And I have an image of heart (outline only).

I want to fir the above text paragraph in the heart image.

Could you please guide me how this can be achieved

regards,
Arun

[Ofnuts]

Typically a job for a typesetting application such as Scribus.

With Gimp, a bit more labor intensive using the text tool:

• Create the beginning of your text, and without leaving the text tool, move it over the shape (you can use Alt-Ctrl-Drag for this).
  
• In the Tool options, set the box to "fixed", and make the box be a good fit for your shape (note that there will be asmall margin between the edge of the text and the box)
  
• It can be useful to set the text as "Centered" in tge Tool options
  
• Enter the text, making lines that are close enough to the required length
  
• Using the on-canvas control to increase/decreae kerning in each line of text as required to make it fit. For small adjustments, you can select just the spaces
  

   

[rich2005]

Try using Gimp and see if you can get a good fit with a heart shape.

otherwise:

Gimp is not the tool for this: PS has certain vector-like abilities which Gimp does not possess.

The tool for this is Inkscape, and that has a steep learning curve, same as Gimp. I advise asking on the Inkscape forum. http://www.inkscapeforum.com

Something like this, a path drawn heart, and a block of text, http://i.imgur.com/6GsaWlC.jpg
after a bit juggling with text size and spacing, text-to-frame gives this. http://i.imgur.com/XFq8ypC.jpg

To get into Gimp, either export as png from Inkscape or save as a vector svg file. Opened in layers in Gimp, the svg file can be imported any size large or small. http://i.imgur.com/dtzZi9c.jpg

The svg  attached as an example, remember to un-zip it.