Re: [Gimp-user] A better way to close a path where an end node is on top of a start node

[Ofnuts <ofnuts gmx com>]

On 29/01/16 14:53, ugajin wrote:
> I have been searching for how best to close a path where an end node is on top of a start node.
>
> One work-around is to not place the end node on the start node, so that the path can be closed in the usual 
> way, and then move what had been intended to be the end node on top of the start node. This hack will create 
> a path segment between the start end and nodes with the expected zero values, but it will be a closed path.
>
> Not closing path nodes may not always create an issue when using paths to generate bitmapped images, but it 
> may  when e.g. stroking paths, and the otherwise unnecessary data can be a tad messy when exporting paths.
>
> Another workaround (good for OCD types) is perhaps to place the end node on the start node, export and edit 
> the path data adding a close-path flag, and then import it back into Gimp.

If you are doing this in a script:

 * copy the backwards tangent of the last node to the first node
 * drop the last node and its tangent handles
 * mark the stroke closed