Re: [Gimp-user] (Mis?)use of jigsaw filter

[Allan Topp <ad707 ncf ca>]

What you have suggested seems to me to work fine.  And seems to Inkscape 
likewise.

Can hardly wait to see if the laser cutter agrees with us.

Thanks so much.

It's all so easy ... when you know what you are doing.

Thanks again.


On 16-02-28 01:34 PM, Richard wrote:
> This is not really something you can do in Inkscape because its bitmap 
> trace necessarily traces both sides of each line.  However extracting 
> the jigsaw pattern itself (albeit in bitmap form) is a simple 
> operation in GIMP:
>
> 1 - Create a new layer, white, on top of the image.
> 2 - Execute a Jigsaw operation on that layer with a Highlight setting 
> of zero. (a Bevel setting of 0px also works..)
> 3 - Go to the Layers > Transparency menu and perform a Color To Alpha 
> using white as transparency.
>
> If you absolutely need the cutting lines in vector form, what would be 
> ideal here is for the Jigsaw filter to be able to output it as a GIMP 
> path object instead of painting it onto the target layer but the 
> plug-in doesn't do that in its current form.