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Andy Thomas (alt@gimp.org) 9th July 1999
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This plug-in will take a selection and convert it into a path.
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For the purpose of the plug-in the selection boundary is defined
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in a similar manner to that worked out for the "marching ants" markers
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of the selection. I think this gives the best user feel/feedback since
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the created path "follows" the "marching ants".
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I cannot claim responsibility for the underlying algorithms. These
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were taken directly from the GNU font utilities (the "limn" program
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in particular) written by Karl Berry and Kathryn Hargreaves.
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Their email addresses quoted in the README are:-
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Karl Berry karl@cs.umb.edu
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Kathryn Hargreaves letters@cs.umb.edu
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Please see fontutils-0.6 package for more details. I have included the
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README from the limn part of the package.
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I thank Karl & Kathryn for producing such a well written set of utilities.
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I have just added a pika front-end onto them.
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How to use it.
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Simply select an area and then select either "<Image>/Selection/To Path"
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menu item or the "Selection To Image" button in the paths dialog. The new
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path will be created. Currently if the LCP dialog has not been activated
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then the path will not be visible... A bug I have just found - simply
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bring up the LCP dialog and select the Paths tab to see the newly created
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path.
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An additional function can be obtained by having the "Shift" modifier pressed
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while using the button in the paths dialog. This will pop-up a "power-users"
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menu where the parameters to the underlying algorithms can be modified.
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WARNING:- Some values may cause the plugin to enter extremely long operations.
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You have been warned.
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Have fun!
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Andy.
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PS. Please direct any bugs etc found in this plugin to either
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myself or the pika-developer mailing list. Thank.
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