How to Manipulate Text into Shape?

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Basically the same ideas. But that code relies on four external libraries that aren't included in Gimp's Python, and the only benefit I see is that they would allow arbitrary paths (multiple anchors).

However it seems the general envelope (including sides) isn't that different from my current code, so I may give it a shot.

Both that code and mine suffer from the same deficiency, they don't handle perspective: the smaller the letter gets, the narrower it should be. For a general path that could be fairly hairy but if the target is text it could be approximated by computing a perspective transform for each character.

Unless applying a perspective transform after the path has been bent gives acceptable results...