06-26-2017, 09:49 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-26-2017, 12:08 PM by rich2005.
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I have a copy of Macromedia Freehand somewhere - on a very dubious CD I got in the middle-east maybe 18 years ago. Macromedia were bought out by Ad*be I think. It was a vector drawing application.
So the obvious is Inkscape. Might be possible but not easy. In theory you can bend a pattern along a path, never seems to work for me. I did try and failed. Inkscape has a similar function to Gimp. Stroke a path then generated paths from the stroke. A few less mouse clicks than Gimp.
edit: Another go, just a single path, the pattern would have to be applied to extra paths, should be possible. screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/S0cpzDj.jpg the corners are a problem
Back to Gimp & looking at your screenshot, it is a closed circuit, so no end path to break.
Stroke path / selection -> to path produces two 'linked' paths 'Selection in the screenshot, and a good tool to separate these is Ofnuts plug-in ofn-path-edits from https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-pa...s/scripts/ to give an inside and outside.
A possibility, and only a possibility is another plug-in arakne-follow-path5 http://www.arakne.es/en/dessign/gimp-plu...oordinate/ find a zip download in there somewhere.
Make a small layer and paint in a pattern, apply the plugin something like this
![[Image: sDWdq0o.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/sDWdq0o.jpg)
Lots of trial-and-error required for spacing/settings, so keep plenty of back-up .xcf images. Only applied to one path but you can see how it might be applied. Never going to work around those sharp corners.
So the obvious is Inkscape. Might be possible but not easy. In theory you can bend a pattern along a path, never seems to work for me. I did try and failed. Inkscape has a similar function to Gimp. Stroke a path then generated paths from the stroke. A few less mouse clicks than Gimp.
edit: Another go, just a single path, the pattern would have to be applied to extra paths, should be possible. screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/S0cpzDj.jpg the corners are a problem
Back to Gimp & looking at your screenshot, it is a closed circuit, so no end path to break.
Stroke path / selection -> to path produces two 'linked' paths 'Selection in the screenshot, and a good tool to separate these is Ofnuts plug-in ofn-path-edits from https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-pa...s/scripts/ to give an inside and outside.
A possibility, and only a possibility is another plug-in arakne-follow-path5 http://www.arakne.es/en/dessign/gimp-plu...oordinate/ find a zip download in there somewhere.
Make a small layer and paint in a pattern, apply the plugin something like this
Lots of trial-and-error required for spacing/settings, so keep plenty of back-up .xcf images. Only applied to one path but you can see how it might be applied. Never going to work around those sharp corners.