For binary downloads for Windows and Linux please go to the "releases" section https://github.com/LinuxBeaver/Gimp_Crayon_Text/releases

Crayon Text plugin for Gimp

Give your text the appearance of a crayon drawing or hand drawn text with this plugin. Try using a semi bond font that resemble human hand drawings with this for the most interesting results. This plugin probably won't work at all with very thin fonts.

Location to put Binaries

They don't go in the normal plugins directory.

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

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

Another preview of this plugin making non crayon hand drawn text

Preview of the day 2 update that calls the original color that an image was.