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)
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)