[Gimp-user] Path Tool Annoyances

[willthefifth <forums gimpusers com>]

> Just revisiting this to see if it can get a little love.
> I don't stroke every path I make, but when I do I am still faced with
> a
> lot of extra work to repair the handles. I've given this a bit more
> thought on how to fix this issue and came up with two ways that maybe
> can work together.
>
> 1. A setting or a keyboard modifier that prevents handles being pulled
> out when placing nodes.
>
> 2. A threshold slider in the strokes dialog to ignore handles within a
> certain margin.
>
> The first option would help prevent problems when creating the path.
> The second would overcome previously created paths, or fix problems
> when
> dragging out handles by accident when manipulating the path by the
> line
> instead of by the handles themselves.
>
> Here is a full size example of a render I did. If you zoom in to 100%
> and follow the path around, you can see how many problems there are. I
> understand it only takes 5-10 mins to go back and fix, but it really
> is
> frustrating.
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/93550827/Forums/gimp-nodes1.jpg
>
> Cheers

I have had the same problem! When I try to do a "stroke path" selection, there
are just gaps that go missing from the stroke. It's so frustrating, and I don't
know how to fix it!

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