Ring_Text_Gimp_Plugin

Make Ring Text in Gimp using this Plugin. Below is two image previews of this plugin with two different aesthetics

Download binaries here. (FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS) https://github.com/LinuxBeaver/Ring_Text_Gimp_Plugin/releases/tag/Gimp_Ring_Text

OS specific location to put GEGL Filter binaries

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

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

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

Then Restart Gimp and go to GEGL Operations and look for "Ring Text" if you use Gimp 2.99.16+ it will be in filters>text styling

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).

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

Preview of this plugin using its "gegl syntax mode" correctly. the syntax makes the fancy effect.

Another Preview

btw, this filter depends on another plugin called SSG that ships with it.It is a stand alone plugin for outlining images.