Remove Tangents Plugin

[akovia]

(01-27-2019, 08:07 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: Ah, I was wondering why there were so many downloads for something I wrote for a specific person

Now that I have another victim of the problem, I may get an answer to the question: what produces these paths with these random small tangents? Is it Gimp's own Select>To path or do they come from an external source?

I went round and round on the gimp-user-list going back nearly five years ago. I'm pretty sure it started when they introduced Cairo. I do know that there was a Before and After with the path tool. It never did it, then one day it always did it and has never changed since.

I always thought that the path tool was too sensitive. I could avoid the problem by...

• Move mouse to spot you want to place node
  
• Make sure the mouse is perfectly still
  
• Press the button to place the node
  
• Fully release the button
  
• Move mouse to next position
  

This is all easier said than done of course and could never do this perfectly in practice. You lay down nodes in a rhythm and it's hard to perfectly time that sequence without inevitably moving the mouse before the mouse button was fully released. Thus dragging a handle out if only slightly.

With you saying that this happens doing a Select>To path, where you aren't placing nodes at all, my world just upended.

I don't want to spam the forum with the email threads from before, but I'd be happy to forward them to you. Simon Budig responded and acknowledged the problem, but it died on the vine. I brought it up again a couple years later and Simon responded again..

Quote:Wow, that is bad.

I suspect that this is a bug in the Cairo library: the problematic
points have the property that the control handle is very short and goes
into the opposite direction than the actual path. Seems this triggers
some Cairo misfeatures...

How did you create that path?

Bye,
        Simon

I responded of course and forgot about this next part until I just read it again..

Quote:I did want to check for myself and went back and found an old xcf that I
had used a stoke on and still had that stroke on a layer. Then I stroked
it again on a new layer so you can see the difference between the old
and new gimp.

What I discovered is that the handles on the old gimp were pulled out as
well, but stroking didn't show those minor imperfections. Maybe this
will help get to the root of the problem.

Here is the xcf I referenced.

After that someone responded with my favorite...

Quote:Use Inkscape.

I then proceeded to ruffle some feathers and nothing ever happened again. I actually didn't think I was rude at all but apologized anyway.

So there's my story and I'm sticking to it.