[devoken]

I'd like to outline some text, so I went to the Text tool, entered the words, highlighted them and then looked for the button that would let me create an outline path. It's not there. Plain and simple. There's an empty space between "language: English" and the tool pre-set buttons. I checked under the paths dialog, but the option isn't there, either.

I've never used the text menu before - actually, I've just never used GIMP before. Perhaps I'm missing something obvious? I read a couple of tutorials, but none of them said that you had to do anything other than highlight the text to make the "create path from text" option appear.

I'm using 2.8 and Windows XP. I'm happy to provide more information if needed.

Thanks in advance!

[alexstandiford]

Have you tried right-clicking on the text layer? Im pretty sure thats where the create path from text option is.

[devoken]

alexstandiford, on 24 June 2012 - 01:58 PM, said:

Have you tried right-clicking on the text layer? Im pretty sure thats where the create path from text option is.

D'oh. Yeah, that's where it was. Sorry - when the option wasn't in the place the tutorials said it would be, I didn't look much farther. Clearly I should have.

Thanks very much!

[ofnuts]

devoken, on 24 June 2012 - 02:22 PM, said:

alexstandiford, on 24 June 2012 - 01:58 PM, said:

Have you tried right-clicking on the text layer? Im pretty sure thats where the create path from text option is.

D'oh. Yeah, that's where it was. Sorry - when the option wasn't in the place the tutorials said it would be, I didn't look much farther. Clearly I should have.

Thanks very much!

The tuts you have seen are for 2.6 (2.8 is brand new).

This post has been edited by ofnuts: 24 June 2012 - 03:08 PM

[alexstandiford]

Even 2.6 had that option in the same place. Happy to help! If you have any more questions don't hesitate to ask.