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Alot of websites have given tutorials about how to justify text in GIMP Image Editor. What most of them forgot to mentioned is that you can align the text left, right or center but not justified even though it has the button there. This was tested in GIMP 2.2 and a current version 2.3. Justified text makes then text line up on both the left and right border of the text box and evenly adjusting the line spacing between the letters in each line to accomplish this.
It turns out from this forum post that its just a placeholder and a patch can be used to enable it. This article also talks about a proposal to implement the justify feature as part of Google’s Summer of code 2007.
Anyway, here is a simple method of justifying text in GIMP without patches.
- You need to have a new text box for each line
- Manually ensure that each line is almost the same length or shorter than desired
- Then in the text box properties section, look for the “Letter Spacing” (See screen shot on right) setting and adjust it until all the lines are visibly the same and inline
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Where is the "letter spacing setting" in the text properties. I have GIMP 2.2.13 for Windows and text properties are only:Font
Size
Hinting
Auto Hinting
Antialiasing
Color
Justification
Inteding
raw space
and finally the button to create selection from text
I cannot find any letter spacing
Thanks for the clear comment. Too bad the justify does not work in Gimp. Another solution is to write the text in Inkscape and export it as png and import into Gimp.Enjoy.
Im not sure about GIMP on Windows but I have attached a screen shot with the Letter Spacing field in GIMP on Linux. 
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