Drawing Straight Lines In Gimp

Serrano Pentagess · Monday, 8 November 2021

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08-21-2019, 03:17 AM (This post was last modified: 08-24-2019, 03:56 PM by rich2005.)

I am using Gimp 2.8.10 on Xubuntu. Been working on drawings regarding a garage I'm building. Drawing a lot of straight lines by using the shift key. It's been working fine for days. I don't know what I did but now It puts a mild sawtooth pattern on every line. I've read everything I could find with Google but found nothing. Please help and thank you in advance.

BTW: Been using Gimp for years for all sorts of stuff. Great software! This is the first major problem I've had and of course it happened when I'm in a hurry.

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Using the pencil instead of the brush? There is no anti-aliasing in the pencil.

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There is an option "apply jitter". Maybe it's activated unwantedly?

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08-21-2019, 03:13 PM (This post was last modified: 08-21-2019, 03:19 PM by StrobeWylan.)

(08-21-2019, 06:38 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: Using the pencil instead of the brush? There is no anti-aliasing in the pencil.

Tried that. Same Problem.

(08-21-2019, 07:22 AM)nelo Wrote: There is an option "apply jitter". Maybe it's activated unwantedly?

Yeah, it wasn't checked. I checked it and tried that in case it's counterintuative. No help.

I tried uninstalling Gimp and reinstalling it again. No effect. In fact when I restarted it it everything was in place as if I hadn't uninstalled it. The curser was a pencil, for example.

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08-21-2019, 03:22 PM (This post was last modified: 08-21-2019, 03:25 PM by rich2005.)

Running out of options

Small grid spacing and snap to grid enabled might be the problem.

Make sure brush dynamics is set to off.

Can you post a screenshot of the 'sawtooth' line and including tool options in force.

Uninstalling Gimp rarely helps. All the settings are stored in your Gimp profile ~/.config/GIMP/2.10 and the problem is probably there.

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08-21-2019, 03:56 PM (This post was last modified: 08-21-2019, 03:58 PM by StrobeWylan.)

I will later. Have to go to work right now. Thanks for the idea.

(08-21-2019, 03:22 PM)rich2005 Wrote: Small grid spacing and snap to grid enabled might be the problem.
Make sure brush dynamics is set to off.

Can you explain how to do this?

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The dynamics option is (1)

Since you already tried a re-install as a hope-and-a-wish.

Reset all the tool options back to default, as you get when first installed. Edit -> Preferences -> Tool Options and click on the reset button. (2)

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Did the reset and all seems to be working. thanks!