How to align text in an image in GIMP

resetreset · 03-25-2010, 12:51 AM

Hi,
I'm trying to make buttons for a webpage - each button has a "graphic" part - say an oval with a drop shadow, and text on top of that, such as "About Us", "Contact Us" etc. I'd like the text to line up horizontally against one another, so that if the buttons are placed next to one another in a straight line across the page, the texts line up with one another. How do I do this in GIMP?
Common sense suggests that the "Align" tool should be what I should be using, but how do I use it?

Thanks.

i92guboj · 03-25-2010, 07:13 AM

I can't exactly answer your question. But since you haven't got a response I'll offer an alternative in case it helps you. I usually prefer inkscape for this kind of task. This is for many reasons.

The tools it has to align components are quite good.
The vector nature of inkscape is usually better suited for this task. You can easily produce buttons on many sizes without having to resize bitmaps, which is always problematic.
It handles text nicely, unlike pixel-based solutions (gimp).