Hi,
Was searching for a script to round the corners of a selection. I found this via google. Apparently, this used to be in the core, but it's no longer there. I did find a script that is supposed to do the same thing, but it's old and doesn't work with 2.8.

Could someone please update this script, or point me to another solution? I would be most grateful.

It can now be found in the menus as "Select->Rounded Rectangle..."

It doesn't work in 2.6 either, but it was easy to fix - just add one line.

However, don't try and set a radius of 80 or above as it will crash.

Kevin

and as I was by saulgoode - do what he says

Well, I may have spoken too soon. The Rounded Rectangle script in the Selection menu does not work with complexly shaped selections (or rather, it treats them as a rectangle). If the goal is to round all of the corners of a selection (as shown in the cited tutorial) then Kevin's updated version of the script should be used.

Tried that but not giving expected results. I want to select some text (alpha to selection), and then just round the hard edges a certain amount. Rounded rectangle make one big rectangle selection with the four corners rounded.




Tried the script but get an error.


Thanks,
ako

Try, Alpha to selection, Select | Grow selection.

I tried the little trick mentioned in the tutorial I linked by shrinking and growing, and though it kinda works, I was looking for something more exact without the trial and error. This script might not work as I expect, but I'm hoping it does.

I really wish there was an easy way to just add rounded corners on a path. I realize this could probably be achieved using the advanced options for selection to path, but I gave up on that long ago. Trying to figure out all the options is harder than Chinese arithmetic.

Also selection border you should get rounded edges...providing the selection isn't too small

What value of radius did you select? as that's exactly the error I got when I set the radius to 80. It seems to work for me:


Kevin

depending of what you want to do, you can get a rectangle with rounded corners with the Shape Paths script

viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6992

I was using 4. I just tried it again using 3 and it worked fine, so I went back to 4 and now that works as well. No clue what happened.

Thanks you so much Kevin, this is exactly what I needed.

Thanks Esper. I am familiar with that script and use it regularly, but it creates paths, where I want to take an existing path and round the hard corners by a specific amount. Rounding the selection from a path was the next best thing and the script that Kevin fixed works great now.

thank Sallyanna I learn something new (for me)
see the test:

What is it supposed to do, I ran it on a selected text and again on a non selected text.
I used 250 and a radius of 20 and it didn't do anything.

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I was left with the selection, I just figured it out, I had to invert, then delete and it left the rounded corners

I went through the whole thread and I didn't see anything about invert then delete to remove the corners. so there... Greachan