About this Gimp Plugin

Blood or Ice Text. A GEGL Gimp Plugin that renders Blood or Ice Text. This plugin is very resource intensive and may not work well on low spec machines. After installing this plugin restart Gimp and go to GEGL Operations to find it. If you are using Gimp 2.99.16 or Gimp 3 (in future) this plugin will appear in the menu under Filters>Text Styling.

Go here to download Windows and Linux binaries with source code provided. https://github.com/LinuxBeaver/Bloody_Ice_Gimp_Plugin/releases/tag/Bloody_Ice_Gimp

Location to put Binaries

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

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).

Dev recommends you use a modern version of GEGL. no guarantee dated versions of Gimp will work with this plugin. Evidence seems to suggest that versions of Gimp before early 2020 will not proper with this plugin, meaning it may run on them but run incorrectly with missing commands.

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

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