On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:17:19PM -0700, Alex Feldman wrote: > > That is, it was useful until I got to section 3.4, The Paths Dialog. > Now nothing seems to work. > the pathtool is probably the most changed tool since gimp-1.2. personally, i would have a difficult time writing how to use the new pathtool. after you work with it for a while, it just seems to start to work.
> To begin with, the first line in the section reads: > > "Because Bezier paths are so useful, there is a special Paths dialog > that allows multiple Bezier paths to be edited, managed, and saved." > > So to begin with I draw a Bezier path with the path tool, and save the > file. Then I reopen it, and no path. I mucked around looking for it, > but I couldn't find it hiding anywhere. I tried it again and the same > thing happened, both files were the same size. I tried opening an > image window and doing nothing, and saving it, and it was smaller than > one were I tried to save the Bezier path. There was no undo history > in either file, I used the xcf format to save. > which version of gimp are you using? gimp only saves its history per session. quit cleans that out. one way that the gimp-2 paths dialog changed is that the paths now work the same way layers do. you can toggle them to be viewable or not, you can export them as svg. i found it more confusing (after the switch) because you can make the paths visible even when the path tool is not active. > I then tried a number of other things suggested in the book, including > writing the path on one layer, and then toggling visibility (which is > what I really was interested in) by clicking on the eye-cons in the > layers dialog. I could go into detail about what did happen, but I > have a feeling that any number of people know what I was doing wrong at > this point, and could fill me in (no pun intended). > i don't know how up to date grokking is with the new pathtool. > One last thing - if after I have made a path, I change tools, the path > disappears, never to return, even if I change back to the path tool. > But the path operations remain in the undo history - so I can remove > the anchors that I can't see, or put them back. Alas, putting them > back doesn't make them visible. > > So where can learn about all this? Oh, I have looked in the online > manual, and it seemed rather terse on the subject. > none of these things should have happened. carol _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
