Having spent a few days perusing these forums I realize that what I am about to say is nothing new.

ofnuts, YOUR ARE A GENIUS!

I was totally unaware that it was possible to select individual paths (strokes) from a path. In fact this whole vectors thing is new to me!

A 16 x 16 selection would have a perimeter of 64, so assuming an irregular shape, using a perimeter of around 40 should be perfect!

On a side note (because I am going to use something like this script thank you ever so much) is the same type of extraction possible with selections attained via select by color? (If possible no exemplar code is needed, but a point to the procedure would be nice... )

Also, your python-fu shows you know the python bindings way better than I do. Do you perhaps know of a thorough set of documentation for the classes and members (public API stuff)?

The origin of the path is completely irrelevant to the script...



Just experimenting with the Python-fu console. Use type(object) and dir(object) to list attributes/methods, these are mostly a rather thin layer over PDB functions (same parameters(*), except the object itself of course).

(*) with the usual difference that in Python you use the objects directly instead of their IDs (there are a couple of exceptions to this).

My path-related scripts, with a short write-up on Paths:

http://gimp-path-tools.sourceforge.net/

Dooh... Of course, apply the same technique... Although I was referring to using the selection object directly as in :

But since it can be done via the paths, it really isn't needed. I just wondered if I had overlooked something obvious (again)