Is there a script to copy a layer at regular positions along a path (or should I write one )

If I make some shapes in GIMP how to create normal maps so that shadows are correctly displayed. I want to make something like this:



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Is there a way to get a portrait of myself to look like a drawing?

Like a simple cartoon drawing, think Hanna Barbara simplicity.

Freshly installed GIMP 2.8.22 on OSX 10.12.6 never starts, and throws the following (when reaching initialization of extension-script-fu):

*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[__NSCFArray length]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x11033f370'
*** First throw call stack:
(
0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fffc943b2cb __exceptionPreprocess + 171
1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fffde25448d objc_exception_throw + 48
2   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fffc94bcf04 -[NSObject(NSObject) doesNotRecognizeSelector:] + 132
3   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fffc93ad755 ___forwarding___ + 1061
4   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fffc93ad2a8 _CF_forwarding_prep_0 + 120
5   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fffc933a257 CFStringFindWithOptionsAndLocale + 231
6   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fffc9348792 CFStringHasSuffix + 194
7   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fffc93a4bdb -[__NSCFString hasSuffix:] + 107
8   CFNetwork                           0x00007fffc8684e9d __40-[NSHost resolveCurrentHo<…>

I worked for a long time without issues with GIMP version 2.8, then suddenly after a Mac restart it started throwing the above when launching the app. I reinstalled 2.8.22, but it didn't fix the issue.

How do I use Gimp to make a cross image (a large plus sign), with the corners rounded, not just the 8 outermost corners, but the 4 inner corners as well?

I am creating graphic a globe. I am about half way through creating shapes then selection from path and bucket fill the area. All of a sudden it stopped working. The bucket fill appears to be available and I click it I get the watch but then it doesn't fill.

For Windows computers GIMP is available as a Portable APP but only for a stable version.  Insofar as this is my preferred method of installation/usage I'd like to make my own portable installation on an external disk drive for a newer/development version.

I've been able to run the installer and choose a target location on the external drive.  This has the affect of locating the program files where I want them.  Unfortunately, when GIMP executes it creates a bunch of folders for persistent data on the path "C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.9" which is most undesirable.

Insofar as the Portable Apps folks are able to change this I thought I should also be able to do that as well.  The question is how?

Consider the following image as an example:


https://i.imgur.com/E91iXwL.png



What is the best way to merge the upper and the lower part together?

Edit: It might be better visible what I need if you have a look at the imgur image instead of the embedded image here, as there you can clearly see the borders of the parts I want to merge.

I'm applying alpha to selection to text and fill the text with a gradient.I have noticed that after applying alpha to select the text loses his text attributes -usually I'm doing text to path cause I need the text layer to be regular layer-but after alpha to selection I don't have the text layer to path option-I need the final result -regular layer-Does the alpha to selection made it regular layer and not text permanently?

So im looking to export an image that is a triangle...easy enough to do with a transparent background and it looks like you have a triangle...but im my case I need the dimensions of the picture to fit the triangle perfectly not be a triangle within a square or rectangular transparent dimension...it's kind of like I'm looking for an option of setting the image to be width, height, and diagonal or something like that. Thanks!