Joao, Clipping Paths are a new concept to me too.
First let me explain a tad... For page layout work, at work we use (don't laugh) PageMaker. Me and the other guy recently learned that we could import raster images w/transparency and actually have it display properly in PageMaker. We also learned that the tif must have a clipping path. Basically, it's a path with a special designation as a 'clipping path' and everything inside the path will show, and everything outside the clipping path is transparent. There's a little rivalry at work because my colleage uses Photoshop while I use The Gimp. As it would be, PS could do a clipping path, but I couldn't see that Gimp could. In PS, you bring up the context menu with the paths menu up and designate which path will be the 'clipping path'. That's it. I don't know about the internals of the tif file, or if it's even a recognized spec in tif. I can throw up an image somewhere if anyone is curious to check it out. At work I'd like us both to drop Windows all together and go with Scribus/Gimp, but that might not happen anytime soon. Eric Pierce > On Monday 29 December 2003 15:25, Eric Pierce wrote: >> I saw some mention (mailing list early 2001) of Gimp & the ability >> to set a clipping path. >> >> What is the current status on this? >> >> Has it been implemented or is it on the drawing board? > > What would such a clipping path do? > I mean...there are "clipping paths" in postscript, and GIMP selections > have the functionalities that those have (and a couple more) >> >> Just curious. >> Eric Pierce >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
