Comment 17 for bug 180708

I'm having similar trouble using the Tweak -> Shrink tool. I'm not getting things disappearing, but the whole path gets gradually distorted when using the tool on only a small portion of the path. Shouldn't the parts of the path beyond the tweak brush be unaffected? Is this the same bug or should I file a different one?

More specifically, I'm trying to use this to get variable line-width. I'm creating 2-px-stroked lines with the pen tool, and then using Stroke-To-Path to convert it to a filled path, and then trying to use the Tweak Shrink/Grow path tool to add some variation to the line width. The whole path becomes distorted pretty quickly though, making this approach infeasible.