Clipping Path

I saw some mention (mailing list early 2001) of Gimp & the ability to set
a clipping path.

What is the current status on this?

Has it been implemented or is it on the drawing board?

Just curious.
Eric Pierce

Hi,

On Monday 29 December 2003 15:25, Eric Pierce wrote:
> I saw some mention (mailing list early 2001) of Gimp & the ability
> to set a clipping path.
>
> What is the current status on this?
>
> Has it been implemented or is it on the drawing board?

What would such a clipping path do?
I mean...there are "clipping paths" in postscript, and GIMP selections
have the functionalities that those have (and a couple more)
>
> Just curious.
> Eric Pierce
>
>
>

Joao,

Clipping Paths are a new concept to me too.

First let me explain a tad...

For page layout work, at work we use (don't laugh) PageMaker. Me and the
other guy recently learned that we could import raster images
w/transparency and actually have it display properly in PageMaker. We
also learned that the tif must have a clipping path. Basically, it's a
path with a special designation as a 'clipping path' and everything inside
the path will show, and everything outside the clipping path is
transparent. There's a little rivalry at work because my colleage uses
Photoshop while I use The Gimp. As it would be, PS could do a clipping
path, but I couldn't see that Gimp could. In PS, you bring up the context
menu with the paths menu up and designate which path will be the 'clipping
path'. That's it. I don't know about the internals of the tif file, or
if it's even a recognized spec in tif. I can throw up an image somewhere
if anyone is curious to check it out.

At work I'd like us both to drop Windows all together and go with
Scribus/Gimp, but that might not happen anytime soon.

Eric Pierce
> On Monday 29 December 2003 15:25, Eric Pierce wrote:
>> I saw some mention (mailing list early 2001) of Gimp & the ability
>> to set a clipping path.
>>
>> What is the current status on this?
>>
>> Has it been implemented or is it on the drawing board?
>
> What would such a clipping path do?
> I mean...there are "clipping paths" in postscript, and GIMP selections
> have the functionalities that those have (and a couple more)
>>
>> Just curious.
>> Eric Pierce
>>
>>
>>
>
>

Hi,

"Eric Pierce" <epierce@sdf.lonestar.org> writes:

> For page layout work, at work we use (don't laugh) PageMaker. Me
> and the other guy recently learned that we could import raster
> images w/transparency and actually have it display properly in
> PageMaker. We also learned that the tif must have a clipping path.
> Basically, it's a path with a special designation as a 'clipping
> path' and everything inside the path will show, and everything
> outside the clipping path is transparent. There's a little rivalry
> at work because my colleage uses Photoshop while I use The Gimp. As
> it would be, PS could do a clipping path, but I couldn't see that
> Gimp could. In PS, you bring up the context menu with the paths
> menu up and designate which path will be the 'clipping path'.
> That's it. I don't know about the internals of the tif file, or if
> it's even a recognized spec in tif. I can throw up an image
> somewhere if anyone is curious to check it out.

Clipping paths are a well-known concept but just like you I don't know
much about the implementation and how standardized this is. Did you
check if our bug-tracker has an enhancement request for clipping paths
yet? If not, it would be nice if you could file one and add as many
information as possible.


Sven

I added this enhancement request as well (bug #131982 )
I was wrong. It's an eps file that can save a clipped path, not tif.

Eric Pierce

> Hi,
>
> "Eric Pierce" <epierce@sdf.lonestar.org> writes:
>
>> For page layout work, at work we use (don't laugh) PageMaker. Me
>> and the other guy recently learned that we could import raster
>> images w/transparency and actually have it display properly in
>> PageMaker. We also learned that the tif must have a clipping path.
>> Basically, it's a path with a special designation as a 'clipping
>> path' and everything inside the path will show, and everything
>> outside the clipping path is transparent. There's a little rivalry
>> at work because my colleage uses Photoshop while I use The Gimp. As
>> it would be, PS could do a clipping path, but I couldn't see that
>> Gimp could. In PS, you bring up the context menu with the paths
>> menu up and designate which path will be the 'clipping path'.
>> That's it. I don't know about the internals of the tif file, or if
>> it's even a recognized spec in tif. I can throw up an image
>> somewhere if anyone is curious to check it out.
>
> Clipping paths are a well-known concept but just like you I don't know
> much about the implementation and how standardized this is. Did you
> check if our bug-tracker has an enhancement request for clipping paths
> yet? If not, it would be nice if you could file one and add as many
> information as possible.
>
>
> Sven
>

Eric Pierce (epierce@sdf.lonestar.org) wrote:
> I added this enhancement request as well (bug #131982 )
> I was wrong. It's an eps file that can save a clipped path, not tif.

Well, tif can save a clipping path. And I actually have no idea how
to extract a clipping path from an EPS without parsing the eps.

*except* that the EPS can contain a preview TIFF, which itself could
contain a clipping path, but I am guessing wildly here.

Bye,
Simon

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>I saw some mention (mailing list early 2001) of Gimp & the ability to set
>a clipping path.
>
>What is the current status on this?
>
>Has it been implemented or is it on the drawing board?
>
>Just curious.
>Eric Pierce
>
>
>

hello what about Gimp

On 6/23/10, Color E. I. wrote:
>I saw some mention (mailing list early 2001) of Gimp & the ability to set
>a clipping path.
>
>What is the current status on this?
>
>Has it been implemented or is it on the drawing board?

Not implemented, but it's mentioned among 2.8 goals.

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org