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How to wrap paragraph text in an image - arun67 - 08-12-2017
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
RE: How to wrap paragraph text in an image - Ofnuts - 08-12-2017
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
RE: How to wrap paragraph text in an image - rich2005 - 08-12-2017
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.