[clue] [advice]

[Philipp Giddings]

perhaps this tutorial 
<http://gimp-tutorials.net/gimp-text-to-path-tutorial>might help

If you can find the same font them just text to path and cover existing text
Philipp

On 4/7/2011 10:30 AM, Michael J. Hammel wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 10:16 -0600, David L. Willson wrote:
>> gimp can select in a variety of ways, and can cut, copy, and paste
>> selections, and can process selections in a wide, wide variety of
>> ways, including rotation.
> Depends a little on how much you want to play with it.  GIMP 2.6
> (current stable) can rotate rendered letters but its much harder to work
> with individual vector versions of those letters.  Rotating rendered
> letters will, with multiple transformations, reduce the quality of the
> rendering.
>
> GIMP 2.6 has a "Text Circle" plugin that can render text along a
> circular path, but you can't play much with the shape of the circle or
> the letter positioning along that path.
>
> GIMP 2.7 (development version, planned 2011-10-23 release of 2.8) does a
> little better with vector text though its still not particularly easy to
> do transformations on individual letters.  It has a built-in Text along
> a Path feature that allows you to specify an arbitrary vector path along
> with creating text that is also generated as vector paths.  This allows
> you to resize and transform the text in a manner that is a bit easier
> and more flexible than GIMP 2.6.  But it is still a little
> less-than-easy to work with.
>
> Better still, for doing text along paths and transformations, is
> Inkspace.  It's a fully vector tool designed for this type of layout
> work.  I don't use it much, however.
>
> Can't say which is easier to use.  GIMP has lots of printed books.
> Inkscape doesn't have many, if any at all.  Neither will get you a
> point-click-rotate solution.  You're gonna have to work at it a little.
>
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