Raphaël Quinet (quinet@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 13:35:03 -0800 (PST), Gezim Hoxha <hgezim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm really frustrated with the storke tool in gimp > > 1.3.23, and I hope it's because of my ignorance. > > Almost all selections (except rectangular ones) turn > > out really ugly when storked...here is an example with > > a circle > > http://www.geocities.com/hgezim/stroke.html > > The circle is converted to line segments for stroking, and > unfortunately there are not enough of them (12 here) so the > results are ugly. Ideally, it should be possible to configure > how close the segments fit the shape of the selection. It > would also be nice to configure if the stroking is done inside, > outside or on both sides of the edges of the selection. Raphaël, you are on the wrong track. It is not an issue of "not enough line segments". Right now there never is an ellipse, we are talking about converting an roughly ellipse shaped blob delimited by vertical and horizontal lines to something that has slanted lines at its boundary. Additional restriction is, that the lines have to end in integer coordinates. I tried to use a modified Douglas Peucker Algorithm to do this, and since I want to catch 45 degree lines, I have to use a tolerance of at least sqrt(2)/2. I fiddeled around a bit and came up what is in 1.3.23. I now have reverted that stuff in CVS, since the old stuff fails in a more predictable way, and ellipses look a bit more like ellipses, although either aliased (or very bad anti aliasing) and uneven stroke widths. This stuff is discussed in Bug #50730. > Anyway, there is a workaround that should allow you to get a > better circle until some new options are added for stroking > selections: just convert the selection to a path, then stroke > the path. The results should look a bit better. Yep. > Note that > you will probably need to double the stroke width because > that parameter is not interpreted in the same way for selections > and for paths. Also, you may have to adjust the radius of your > circle (another difference, probably related to stroking inside > or on both sides of the line segments). Uh, simply <Image>->Select->None before stroking the path, then everything will be interpreted as you expected earlier. This is not an issue of parameters being interpreted in a different manner. Bye, Simon -- Simon.Budig@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/
