How do you make text circle around a circle???

[snl_9527]

Hello, I’ve been learning GIMP for two weeks and now I’m stuck in one place, and that’s that I need to wrap the text around a circle, in GIMP, it never becomes a complete circle

(The blue line is my path, and the red line is the path around the text)

Strangely, no matter how I adjust the size of the text, it still doesn’t work
It seems that it can only reach a semicircle

[rich2005]

One way....

Go into the View menu and toggle Show All  That lets you see outside the canvas area.
Space the text out using the Text Tool letter spacing setting. A bit of trial and error but the length about 90% of the circumference (pi x diameter in pixels) Unfortunately in Gimp 2.10 you cannot place guides outside the canvas so use the ruler. When complete, if you want toggle Show All off.
as an example:

   

Ahh.. using Gimp 3.0 - Exactly the same but if you want you can place guides outside the canvas area. (you are using Android / Gimp RC3 - really? )

[Krikor]

Another alternative, although I think it is not for the OP who is using a development version 3.0 RC1.
But another user, using version 2.10, may have the same interest.

If I am not mistaken, using the ofn-text-alog-path plugin with the Layout option as Justify, and adding a space before the first number ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ) would produce the text centering around the circle.

[Ofnuts]

(12-15-2024, 01:51 PM)Krikor Wrote: Another alternative, although I think it is not for the OP who is using a development version 3.0 RC1.
But another user, using version 2.10, may have the same interest.

If I am not mistaken, using the ofn-text-alog-path plugin with the Layout option as Justify, and adding a space before the first number ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ) would produce the text centering around the circle.

Would be better to use the "Multi" option, after using ofn-path-to-shape to produce the "support paths" at regular intervals. 

   

Because what the OP appears to want isn't a text spread out on a circle, it is digits at regular intervals.

[Krikor]

(12-15-2024, 02:36 PM)Ofnuts Wrote:

(12-15-2024, 01:51 PM)Krikor Wrote: Another alternative, although I think it is not for the OP who is using a development version 3.0 RC1.
But another user, using version 2.10, may have the same interest.

If I am not mistaken, using the ofn-text-alog-path plugin with the Layout option as Justify, and adding a space before the first number ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ) would produce the text centering around the circle.

Would be better to use the "Multi" option, after using ofn-path-to-shape to produce the "support paths" at regular intervals. 



Because what the OP appears to want isn't a text spread out on a circle, it is digits at regular intervals.

But unless I'm mistaken, which is quite possible, using the ofn-text-alog-path plugin also places the digits at regular intervals.

The images below demonstrate:

• The application of the 'Multi" option, after using ofn-path-to-shape' - in red;
  
• The application of ofn-text-alog-path - in blue;
  
• The overlap of both techniques.
  

                 

[Ofnuts]

(12-15-2024, 06:47 PM)Krikor Wrote:

(12-15-2024, 02:36 PM)Ofnuts Wrote:

(12-15-2024, 01:51 PM)Krikor Wrote: Another alternative, although I think it is not for the OP who is using a development version 3.0 RC1.
But another user, using version 2.10, may have the same interest.

If I am not mistaken, using the ofn-text-alog-path plugin with the Layout option as Justify, and adding a space before the first number ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ) would produce the text centering around the circle.

Would be better to use the "Multi" option, after using ofn-path-to-shape to produce the "support paths" at regular intervals. 



Because what the OP appears to want isn't a text spread out on a circle, it is digits at regular intervals.

But unless I'm mistaken, which is quite possible, using the ofn-text-alog-path plugin also places the digits at regular intervals.

The images below demonstrate:

• The application of the 'Multi" option, after using ofn-path-to-shape' - in red;
  
• The application of ofn-text-alog-path - in blue;
  
• The overlap of both techniques.
  

    

Yes but in this case only because the digits are all the same width (which is I admit the usual case for digits). But replace the digits by numbers (1..12), or letters (I,II, III ... IX, X, XI, XII) and the  single text-along-path fails while the multi-path still works.

[ikks]

(12-15-2024, 02:36 PM)Ofnuts Wrote:

(12-15-2024, 01:51 PM)Krikor Wrote: Another alternative, although I think it is not for the OP who is using a development version 3.0 RC1.
But another user, using version 2.10, may have the same interest.

If I am not mistaken, using the ofn-text-alog-path plugin with the Layout option as Justify, and adding a space before the first number ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ) would produce the text centering around the circle.

Would be better to use the "Multi" option, after using ofn-path-to-shape to produce the "support paths" at regular intervals. 



Because what the OP appears to want isn't a text spread out on a circle, it is digits at regular intervals.

Hi,resurrecting this, because Google referred this page when I was looking for a plugin to add a number with circle for screenshots. I am looking for a plugin for this, to be able to add numbers and annotations to an image. Maybe there is a reference that I could follow?  I am using satty on Linux and I wonder if there is an alternative for GIMP maybe?

[Ofnuts]

I don't use Gimp for this. I'm on Linux, I do a lot of annotated screenshots (two to three per day on average) and I use a utility that does screenshots and annotations called KSnip. I love Gimp, and I'm reasonably skilled with it, but KSnip is so much faster. In fact in KSnip you just click things in order with the numbering tool to create the circled numbers.

Otherwise if you want to stick with Gimp, forget ofn-text-along-path that has nothing to do with this.You have two solutions:

1. You install a font that produces circled numbers
   
2. You use two layers: a text layer, and a layer under it (can be common to all numbers) where you put a circle using the paintbrush and large circular brush. It can be useful to enable the image grid so that the text layers and the circles are easily centered with respect to each others. Something like this: