Re: [Gimp-user] Text-on-path not visible in .jpg or .png exports

[Ofnuts <ofnuts gmx com>]

On 16/12/15 14:36, Jogchum Reitsma wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Using GIMP 2.8.16 on openSuse Tumbleweed, I try to draw some
> text-on-path on a photo-image. In itself that is easy and successful,
> but when I want to export this to .png or .jpg, the photo is exported,
> but the text is not visible.
>
> In the preview of the export it is, but not in the final result.
>
> Funny thing - at least for me - is that the text doesn't seem to sit on
> a layer - if I make both layers (the one with the original text, not yet
> placed on a path, and the one with the photo-image) invisible, the
> text-on-path is still visible.
>
> Probably I do something wrong, but can anyone point me to what that
> might be?

The text you see is a "Path". It is an indication like the marching ants 
you see for the selection. It has to be stroked (Edit>Stroke path) or 
filled (Select>From path and bucket-fill selection) to become 
"physically" part of the image.

For an introduction to paths: http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-using-paths.html