How to select a bunch of points of a path for removal in GIMP?

[adrianh]

Hello all,

I created a path with a lot of points. I then duplicated the path so that I can attempt separating them into two smaller paths.

Is there a way to select a bunch of the points as a group to perform an operation on them such as removal? Or am I forced having to delete each point separately, one at a time. I would think that the former is a fairly obvious feature because the latter is such a big hassle.

[rich2005]

Quote:Is there a way to select a bunch of the points as a group to perform an operation on them such as removal? Or am I forced having to delete each point separately, one at a time. I would think that the former is a fairly obvious feature because the latter is such a big hassle.

Nothing that I know of to do exactly that. Gimp is primarily a raster editor, for anything complicated use Inkscape.

Quote:I created a path with a lot of points. I then duplicated the path so that I can attempt separating them into two smaller paths.

There is one of Ofnuts plugins ofn-path-edits.py about six down here http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-pat...s/scripts/  that might help. There is documentation in the zip.

example, splitting a path at a selected control point





https://youtu.be/2f9xhwl1fc0  Duration 1 min 30 secs.

[Ofnuts]

With the aforementioned ofn-path-edits, two ways:

1) cut two segments to isolate the part you want to remove from the rest
2) Either use the "Edit>Break path apart" to get one path per stroke
3) Or make a rough freehand selection around one end of the stroke and then "Edit>Delete strokes"

[adrianh]

(09-24-2019, 08:39 AM)rich2005 Wrote: There is one of Ofnuts plugins ofn-path-edits.py about six down here http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-pat...s/scripts/  that might help. There is documentation in the zip.

example, splitting a path at a selected control point
https://youtu.be/2f9xhwl1fc0  Duration 1 min 30 secs.

Great vid, but I forgot to say that the path consists of 2 strokes, and I'm trying to separate the strokes from each other.

Thanks,


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[rich2005]

Same plugin. Try the 'break-path-apart' option Do read the plugin docs, examples are given.

Starting with this: https://i.imgur.com/0H1kHCh.jpg gives this: https://i.imgur.com/e7Vb9nk.jpg

or export the path as an svg, zip and attach to a post for better advice.

[adrianh]

(09-24-2019, 12:30 PM)rich2005 Wrote: Same plugin. Try the 'break-path-apart' option Do read the plugin docs, examples are given.

Starting with this: https://i.imgur.com/0H1kHCh.jpg   gives this: https://i.imgur.com/e7Vb9nk.jpg

or export the path as an svg, zip and attach to a post for better advice.

Great.  Thx.