Well now that really makes sense -- that might be a good wiki addition. So I believe that this tool is working both as designed and as expected -- antialias does do its job when you fill a selection though. :) And basically it can't do it's job as a rule when you stroke a selection.
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:30 AM, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 17:54 +1030, David Gowers wrote: > > > I can confirm this bug. If you stroke using a tool (eg paintbrush), > > the result is antialiased, so I don't understand why the vector > > stroking isn't.... > > Simon has actually explained this quite well already. The outline you > are stroking is the selection border. Since the selection is a mask it > consists of pixels. So the selection border runs along pixel edges and > thus consists of only horizontal and vertical segments. Zoom in and look > at the marching ants. Now if you stroke this, you get the expected > result. > > Stroking with the paint tool is implemented by stamping the brush in > regular intervals along the path you are stroking. This eliminates the > problem somewhat as the stroking does not closely follow the selection > border on its way along the pixel edges. > > > Sven > > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > -- Nathan Lane Home, http://www.nathandelane.com Blog, http://nathandelane.blogspot.com
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