/Skeleton_Text_Gimp_Plugin

Make Skeleton/thorny roots style text in Gimp with this plugin

Primary LanguageCGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

Skeleton Text in Gimp

Download binaries here. https://github.com/LinuxBeaver/Skeleton_Text_Gimp_Plugin/releases

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Directory to put Binaries (They do NOT go in the normal plugins folder)

Windows

C:\Users(USERNAME)\AppData\Local\gegl-0.4\plug-ins

Linux

/home/(USERNAME)/.local/share/gegl-0.4/plug-ins

Linux (Flatpak includes Chromebook)

/home/(USERNAME)/.var/app/org.gimp.GIMP/data/gegl-0.4/plug-ins

Then Restart Gimp and go to GEGL Operations and look for "Skeleton Text" in the drop down list Gimp 2.99.16+ users will find the filter in filters>Text Styling, 2.10 users will only see it in the GEGL operations drop down list.

Compiling and Installing

Linux

To compile and install you will need the GEGL header files (libgegl-dev on Debian based distributions or gegl on Arch Linux) and meson (meson on most distributions).

meson setup --buildtype=release build
ninja -C build

If you have an older version of gegl you may need to copy to ~/.local/share/gegl-0.3/plug-ins instead (on Ubuntu 18.04 for example).

BEAVER RECOMMENDS YOU USE A MODERN VERSION OF GEGL. NO GUARANTEE DATED VERSIONS OF GIMP WILL WORK WITH THIS PLUGIN

Windows

The easiest way to compile this project on Windows is by using msys2. Download and install it from here: https://www.msys2.org/

Open a msys2 terminal with C:\msys64\mingw64.exe. Run the following to install required build dependencies:

pacman --noconfirm -S base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain mingw-w64-x86_64-meson mingw-w64-x86_64-gegl

Then build the same way you would on Linux:

meson setup --buildtype=release build
ninja -C build

More Previews of this based plugin.

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Skeleton + my other plugin Custom Bevel Download Custom bevel here and chain them ( https://github.com/LinuxBeaver/GEGL-Custom-Bevel/releases )

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