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2.0pre Bezier Tool

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2.0pre Bezier Tool Owen 21 Jan 22:46
  2.0pre Bezier Tool Simon Budig 21 Jan 22:57
   2.0pre Bezier Tool Owen 22 Jan 08:50
    2.0pre Bezier Tool Simon Budig 22 Jan 12:09
Owen
2004-01-21 22:46:03 UTC (over 20 years ago)

2.0pre Bezier Tool

In Gimp 1.2.5 I can easily make a bezier selection

Select Bezier tool Click Click Click then click on the start point Click inside and get "the marching ants" Edit->stroke gives a fully stroked path

In Gimp-2.0pre (and the 1.3s) Select Bezier tool
Select Tool options->Design mode
Click Click Click

BUT

Clicking on start point does not complete the selection Tools->Create selection from path gives "Marching ants" for full path Tools->Stroke path DOES NOT stroke the full path as per marching ants. The last segment is ignored.

What am I doing wrong?

I have no problem importing 1.2 paths into 2.0 where they seem to function OK.

TIA

Simon Budig
2004-01-21 22:57:38 UTC (over 20 years ago)

2.0pre Bezier Tool

Owen (rcook@pcug.org.au) wrote:

In Gimp-2.0pre (and the 1.3s)
Select Bezier tool
Select Tool options->Design mode
Click Click Click

BUT

Clicking on start point does not complete the selection

This is intentional. I wanted to have a more direct control over the control points of the path. You can close a path with SHIFT+Click.

Tools->Create selection from path gives "Marching ants" for full path

Please note that the path is not closed, it just gets connected with a straight line, because it is impossible to convert an open path to a selection otherwise.

Tools->Stroke path DOES NOT stroke the full path as per marching ants. The last segment is ignored.

There is no last segment yet, so it does not make any sense to stroke something :)

This is an intentional change to be able to stroke things like arrows, which don't have closed shapes.

What am I doing wrong?

Nothing. You just need to close the path with SHIFT, as described above.

Bye, Simon

Owen
2004-01-22 08:50:19 UTC (about 20 years ago)

2.0pre Bezier Tool

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:57:38 +0100 Simon Budig wrote:

This is an intentional change to be able to stroke things like arrows, which don't have closed shapes.

What am I doing wrong?

Nothing. You just need to close the path with SHIFT, as described above.

Thank you. I had to use the Ctrl key on my machine.

That is a very good/cool tool now. I will give the 1.2.5 one away now

Thanks

Simon Budig
2004-01-22 12:09:49 UTC (about 20 years ago)

2.0pre Bezier Tool

Owen (rcook@pcug.org.au) wrote:

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:57:38 +0100 Simon Budig wrote:

This is an intentional change to be able to stroke things like arrows, which don't have closed shapes.

What am I doing wrong?

Nothing. You just need to close the path with SHIFT, as described above.

Thank you. I had to use the Ctrl key on my machine.

Oh right. I had this in mind wrongly...

CTRL is the right thing to do - alternatively you can switch to the "Edit" mode in the tool options.

That is a very good/cool tool now. I will give the 1.2.5 one away now

Great :)

Bye,
Simon