Re: [Gimp-user] 2.8.22 is wacky

[Steve Kinney <admin pilobilus net>]

On 05/26/2017 12:05 AM, Nate Owens wrote:
> *Text ALONG path url* = https://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-tool-text.html
> scroll down.
> Scroll down there is also an image demonstrating it's position in the Layer
> menu selection
> There is an image here, not to say it will show up in the mail list =
> "Figure 13.177. The Text to Path command..."
>
> Text along Path
>
> This option is enabled only if a path
> <https://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-using-paths.html> exists. When your text
> is created, then create or import a path and make it active. If you create
> your path before the text, the path becomes invisible and you have to make
> it visible in the Path Dialog.
>
> This command is also available from the “Layer” menu:
>
> *Figure 13.177.  The Text to Path command among text commands in the Layer
> menu*
> [image: The Text to Path command among text commands in the Layer menu]
>
> This group of options appears only if a layer text exists.

Hmm.  The "Text to path" command is a semi-hidden option in recent
versions of the GIMP:  Left click an active text layer, and it's one of
the menu items.  I use it quite frequently, to get a path I can use to
add a stroke to a transparent layer under the text to create an outline.

Note that many of the toolbox items including move and transform tools
include a mode setting in the Tool Options dialog, and can be set to
work with image layers, selections or paths.  A big deficiency in the
Scale, Rotate, Shear and Perspective tools when applied to paths, is
that they present a draggable grid the size of the whole image canvas,
not a box around the currently active path.  But they do work.

:o)