GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 356664
Font Format Data Disappears When Mapping Text to Path
Last modified: 2010-11-29 20:54:13 UTC
Please describe the problem: I am not sure if this is a bug or a user error on my part. If the latter, it may be usability issue as it is not clear to me. When clicking "Text Along Path", the text correctly applies itself to a path but data such as font size and colour is lost. Steps to reproduce: 1. Draw a path on screen, such as a curve. 2. Click on the text tool. Set properties such as font colour and size on the text tab. 3. Write some text. 4. On the text tab, click on "Text Along Path." Actual results: Text follows path but all formatting data, such as the colour and font size is lost. Expected results: Text to follow path with formatting data retained. Does this happen every time? Yes. Other information: As mentioned above, this may be a user error as it is something I am not doing correctly. However, perhaps this could be made clearer for the user. A friend of mine, a professional web developer with much experience in Photoshop, also found it confusing. Also, why is the original text retained on-screen even when mapped to the path? It ends up as a cloned copy, one following the path without font formatting properties andthe other in the original position, yet with these properties retained.
A "Path" in GIMP is something invisible. It doesn't have color or anything, it's just a vector outline that exists for making selections, or as shape for painting to layers. I suggest closing this as NOTABUG.
Seconded. This could be an enahancement request, but then it should be more specific about how the text should be kept editable (e.g. directly in the distorted view) and how to deal with other challenges that may arise. And, of course, the person who writes the request should ideally be willing to implement this as well :)
The "Text Along Path" functionality in the development version is a hack, nothing more. Perhaps we should remove it for GIMP 2.4 and try to implement it properly in the next development cycle.
See also bug #169616.
I basically agree with comment #3 -- I have made a start on what it suggests, but it won't be ready for 2.4. It may be worth noting, though, that if "text to path" were available in the pdb, and if the vectors api makes it through, then "text along path" could easily be moved to a plug-in.
Probably not without the missing Text PDB API.
Changing version to 2.4.0 as we forgot to remove this functionality before the 2.4 release was done.
This is basically a duplicate of the bug that deals with turning text along path into something proper that stays editable. we don't need two similar bugs stating the same. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 169616 ***