apocalyptech/gimp-text-outline

Python Plugin for Gimp to draw an outline around Text layers

Gimp Text Outline

This is a GIMP script written in Python for putting an outline around text.

This plugin is based on a similar plugin by Pete Nu, available at: http://pete.nu/software/gimp-outliner/

The primary differences between the two are:

1. His plugin is a little more general-purpose, and will draw outlines around any layer, not just text layers.
2. This plugin will stroke the outline using your active brush and brush settings, rather than filling a selection.
3. This plugin will auto-crop the layer to be as small as possible, rather than leaving it as the full image size.

To use this script, make sure that the selected layer is a text layer you want to outline, then choose "Text Outline" from the "Decor" submenu of the "Filters" menu.

The script will create a new, transparent layer underneath your selected layer, and draw the outline into that new layer.

Installation

• Save text-outline.py to your Gimp plugin directory.
  • On Linux, this will be ~/.gimp-2.8/plug-ins/
  • On Windows, apparently it might be something like C:\Users\[username]\.gimp-2.8\plug-ins
• Restart GIMP

Usage

• Make sure that the selected layer is the one containing the text you want to outline.
• Choose "Text Outliner" from the "Decor" submenu of the "Filters" menu

That's it!

gimp-text-outline's Issues

Impossible to create thin outline?

Hi. Thank you for such great plugin.

It seems to be unstable on gimp 2.9 though. I'm trying to create thin outline for text with font size=30 and brush size=1 and instead it gives me this:

Probably I'm missing something, I was able to create thin outline several times but I'm not sure whether sequence of actions was different.

I also get the following error in console:

(gimp:9313): Gimp-Core-CRITICAL **: gimp_stroke_options_prepare: assertion 'paint_info == paint_options->paint_info' failed

(gimp:9313): Gimp-Paint-CRITICAL **: gimp_paint_core_stroke_vectors: assertion 'GIMP_IS_PAINT_OPTIONS (paint_options)' failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/python/gimpfu.py", line 851, in _run
    res = apply(func, params[1:])
  File "/home/kagami/.config/GIMP/2.9/plug-ins/text-outline.py", line 94, in add_text_outline
    stroke_path_and_remove(image, new_layer, path)
  File "/home/kagami/.config/GIMP/2.9/plug-ins/text-outline.py", line 67, in stroke_path_and_remove
    pdb.gimp_edit_stroke_vectors(layer, path)
RuntimeError: execution error

Especially if I execute Text Outline filter with Brush/Pencil tool active. But sometimes it works that way too.