A path doesn’t require an alpha channel. A path is just extra information to an image. You can use a path as clipping path, but even then you don’t need an alpha channel in the image.
Yes, it’s not a bug but a feature request and in the new terminology of gitlab it’s an issue. The old System Gimp used, bugzilla, called every entry a bugreport.
So does GIMP support embedding path in JPEG meta data? Only TIFF and EPS for now right? Many people like to embed path meta data in JPEG for submitting image to stock photo.
I export all my paths as SVG. That makes it universal when importing into another program like Inkscape. File size is very small. Don’t want to use any other format for paths.
Thanks for answer, the problem is that to be able to send to stock image website, they only accept JPEG and not TIFF. So maybe we could revisit this improvement later.
I understand why a path would not be saved with a jpg but I really think Gimp should save the path with a .png image
When you think how large an .xcf file is compared to .png it sure would be convenient if you could save a path in png image.