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This plug-in will take text (short messages are ideal) and display it a number times across an image using a selection of custom fonts from a designated folder. The text can be displayed horizontally, vertically or diagonally. There are also options to adjust the spacing between characters, to add a basic drop shadow and to shuffle the order of the layers.
Download the plug-in and install it in your usual user folder.
Create a new image and open the filter dialog:
Filters>>Custom Font Tools>>Custom Font WordWall v.001
Step 1: Creating a large-character backdrop
Click on the Custom font folder and navigate to the folder containing the custom fonts you wish to use. If you have a folder with a large number of custom fonts, you may wish to create a temporary folder containing a limited number of fonts – perhaps those derived from the same initial base font. I used a folder with a set of recent custom fonts by GJL.
Then enter the text, number of repeats, the replacement style and drop shadow options (if required). For this first stage set ‘Allow characters after image boundary’ to ‘Yes’; this will result in potentially largest text sizes being used as a textual backdrop.
Click on ‘OK’ to view the results.
The text is kept as individual layers that can be dragged around, or modified with any of the Gimp’s other filters, if you wish.
Repeat the process if necessary:
Step 2: Filling in some of the gaps
Set ‘Allow characters before image boundary’ to ‘Yes’; this will result in text sizes being used as potentially not so large as in Step 1. I kept the other settings at their former values – but have fun and use undo if necessary.
Again, drag the newly added layers and/or adjust the layer opacity, to suit your preferences; my adjustments are shown below.
Step 3: Adding the final layers of text
Unset any ‘before’ or ‘after’ options to use text at a smaller sizes and make any other alterations, before clicking on ‘OK’; I altered the text from ‘SLIDING’ to ‘SLIDING DOWN’ but kept everything else the same.
As before, drag layers around where it seems appropriate.
Step 4: Optionally add a background to suit
NB. The plug-in loads and then stores the information about the custom font names and locations the first time it draws text, so that subsequent calls to the filter are much quicker. If you decide to delete all the layers it will lose this information and have to load it all again. Unless you wish to use a different folder, leaving just one layer (visibility off) will not reduce the speed of drawing the text.
