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Joseph Gladyshev
This is great for a top rocker, but what about a bottom rocker where the ends are curved up? I want to do two lines of text; one on the top curved down and one on the bottom curved up. Is there a plugin for that?
I am including a copy of what I do have. I just need to reproduce this exact artwork. The eagle in the middle I DO have the original artwork from it, All I need to do is curve the text around a half circle.
If what you're looking for is to curve a text along a curve other than a circle, I would say this post explains the easiest method (I haven't watched the video posted by xod above, but I think it's the same technique). And you have this other tutorial which is a little more complex
It automatically adjusts the size of each line to fit into the selection bounds or the page. You can choose where the line breaks are, or you can let the plugin decide with Word Wrap (its choice is psuedorandom, deterministic, and uses a heuristic that tries to not distort the text's aspect ratio too much). Word Wrap mode still respects your line breaks, and also converts _ characters to non-breaking spaces, in case you want some phrases laid out in a particular way but don't care about the rest.
I added a middle antialiasing option, that antialiases slopes and curves only, as a compromise between having blurry but accurate letter shapes or crisp but jagged lines. It works by snapping the vertices of the letter geometry to the nearest pixel before rendering the text.
I fixed some problems with rendering outlined text, by completely changing how the outlines are rendered. It's slower but it looks way better in some funny edge cases, like when the selected colour is partly transparent or when a hole in a letter is smaller than the thickness of the outline. I also added an option to choose the thickness of the text outline.
However I found that the font I was using in the main PDN Text font list was not being offered in either plugin. When I compared the fonts listed by the plugins and the PDN main font list I noticed other missing fonts both those listed by the plugins and PDN itself. I include a screenshot showing one small section of the PDN fonts list on the left and the equivalent Text Window plugin on the right. There are plenty of other cases these are just examples.
The missing fonts on each side are underlined in red. Walrus Bold and Warownia in the main list are missing from both the plugins' font list whilst Vrinda, which the plugins both display, is missing from the main PDN list.
Initially I thought it was a TTF /OTF thing but it isn't there are both types displayed/missing in both menu lists. Access permissions don't appear to be the cause of the problem either. Vrinda is a default hidden font, presumably because it is used by the OS system or some other 'important' program. But there are examples of similarly hidden fonts appearing in both lists and others which only display in one list but not the other like Vrinda but in the PDN font list rather than the plugins.
I've since found other Text Formation plugins that have specific font support issues including xod's Circular Text and toe_head2001's own Text Window. Circle Text, Rotate Text, Rotate TextSUI and Spiral Text however are OK with more fonts or at least one of the fonts I could use for the project that prompted this thread.
However I've also discovered that even the latter plugins mentioned do not support some fonts which PDN's Text options do support like Walrus Bold from my previous screenshot examples. None at all support fonts like OPTIRussian-Gothic (another Helvetica alike), and others with the OPTI prefix.
In short there is nothing that can be done about it. Knowing that is actually helpful because it means that if you are creating an image that requires a particular font or particular text effect you have to make alternative provision for the font's incompatibility with those plugins in the design.
Other options: @dpy has a fantastic suite of text plugins that can be easily added to Paint.NET. Rotate Text is one that might help you angle the text to your liking. You can find these plugins: Dpy's plugin pack
First off I LOVE paint.net 4.0.5. When it comes to writing programs I am a"DUH". That is why I am asking if there is a Plugin that allows me to manipulate each letter individually. Make it bigger or smaller, wider or thinner, tilt them anyway I want.
I'm unsure of the plugins you have (dpy's plugin pack?), but they will almost certainly work on a single letter at a time. Of course this means running the plugin MANY times to complete a single sentence.
In all cases I would place each letter on it's own transparent layer. This is so the letter can be resized, rotated and moved independently of all the other letters.
The checkerboard pattern is a direct consequence of trying to move a section when you have your text AND background in the same layer. ALWAYS put your text on it's own transparent layer. That way you can move the text about without affecting the background in any way. See Pixey's great example in post #2.
Another simple way of doing the same sort of things is just duplicate the text in two transparent layers, the lower layer in black or whatever colour you want, then shifting it left/right/up/down to taste.
With Paint.Net this is not possible unless you use the cut tool to copy the text area then cut it and use the color select tool to get the correct color, use the paint bucket tool and fill the cut away area with the color and then start over again. The only way that I know of to edit text is to do it before you save the image.
He means in edit mode using layers, afaik once you have stopped typing and selected outside of that text, you can no longer go back and edit the text Font type and size/bold etc should still work though if you are still in the 'text tool' (I use this program too).
You won't need to select the text to change its values, so long as you are on that layer and still have the text tool selected (not the text itself) but I do not know of a way to edit the text once you have clicked out of the text box input.
As it happens, one of the most powerful features of Paint.NET is that it supports a variety of plug-ins to enhance the functionality of the program. One of those is the dpy plugin pack which adds numerous tools to Paint.NET which allow the bending of text. Dpy includes Circle Text, SpiralText and WaveText tools. Dpy was last updated in 2014, but still has a community of active users and still functions flawlessly.
If you want to keep the text more in a line and apply some bend to it, drag the Angle of arc bar further to the left and greatly reduce its value to something more like 90 degrees. If the text then overlaps, drag the Radius bar further right to expand it. Then you could have curved text more like that shown in the snapshot directly below.
If you need to adjust the starting angle of the text, drag the Angle of start bar. Drag that to something like -60 and the Angle of arc to 125.95 with a Radius setting of about 245. Then your text will be much more of a semicircular arc comparable to rainbow as below.
The WaveText tool is one that adds a sine wave effect to the text. As such, with that you can add multiple bends, or curves, to the text. Click Effects > Text Formations > WaveText to open the window directly below.
Now type something into the text box. You can choose another font and add bold and italic formatting with the options just below that. If you then click OK without adjusting any of the default settings for the wave effect, your text will be something like that below.
The longer the text is, the more waves it will have. A short snippet of text will probably have just one bend. The best way to adjust the number of waves in text is to drag the x Pitch bar. That modifies the horizontal width of the bends, so dragging that bar right will effectively reduce the number of waves.
To add a vertical wave, click the Change x/y check box. Then the text will be vertical and run down the page as shown directly below. You can further adjust the text position with the Center bars exactly the same as in the Circle Tool.
The SpiralText tool is one that adds a circular spiral staircase text effect, giving your text that irresistible extra curve. Select SpiralText from the Text Formation submenu to open its window below.
You can apply a semicircular arc bend with this tool if you only enter a small amount of text. Reduce text spacing by dragging the Division bar further right to a value of about 56. Then if you drag the Pitch bar further to the left to about a four value and adjust the Angle of start bar to -90, you can bend the text to more of an arc as below. This is similar output to what you can get with the Circle Text tool.
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