GIMP does NOT support JUSTIFIED TEXT

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.

1. You need to have a new text box for each line
2. Manually ensure that each line is almost the same length or shorter than desired
3. 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