intelligent fill

[bbxrider]

see attached, the curved text along a path has voids,
there seems to be no way to stop those voids 
I would like to fill the voids with an intelligent fill,
where the tool would build an outline around the text
and fill in the voids while staying inside the outline, so all
the edges would be smooth along the text contour lines.

I've tried just painting with a small brush, etc., but there's
always jagged strays. the resynthesizer plugin tool looks like a
possibility or some version of a heal tool

[rich2005]

This post describes the problem https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-ofn-te...-selection

and there is a plugin to create a selection from the path without the overlaps

Download from https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-pa...s/scripts/ ofn-text-path-selection.zip dated 2020-05-14

Unzip, read the documentation, put ofn-text-path-selection.py in C:\Users\"yourname"\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\plug-ins

Right click in the paths dialog for the menu entry

Fill the resulting selection. (make sure you are on a suitable layer (not the text layer)