Hi Tom It may be. I do use Gimp.
I might just try working with draw. Gimp does horrible arrows. and sometimes you need arrows. :-) Isn't that called eating your own dog food? Cheers sShelagh On 26 June 2013 16:40, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > Does the fuzziness from shrinking seem to be created in Gimp? > > With Gimp i recently found that colours sometimes seem to be replaced by > similar but slightly different ones. i'd not really noticed it before or > thought it was a result of 'professional' graphic designers (or their > tools) being deliberately obtuse. I was able to install tons of add-ons > (well about 4(ish)) and the problem seems to be fixed. Now i might need to > find out which add-on was the 1 that fixed it in order to install that 1 > across all machines i use and perhaps right across the office jic anyone > else starts using Gimp. > > Dodging the issues and moving to Draw might well be better. > Regards from > Tom :) > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > *To:* Peter Schofield <[email protected]> > *Cc:* Jean Weber <[email protected]>; " > [email protected]" < > [email protected]> > *Sent:* Sunday, 23 June 2013, 11:59 > *Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-documentation] GC chapter 2 Enter, edit, > format > > Hi Peter > > I have shutter, but haven't used it yet. I do use Gimp as well but using > draw sounds like a good plan. I might play around with that. Some of the > fuzzy seems to occur when I have a larger picture that gets shrunk to fit a > space. The text in particular seems to fade to grey. > > Cheers > > Shelagh > > > On 23 June 2013 17:29, Peter Schofield <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello Shelagh > > > > If you are using a Linux system (I use Ubuntu) then Shutter is a good > > screen capture program and easy to operate. You can capture screen shots > > and save them as PNG format, which is the preferred format for graphics. > > You then need another program to do any cropping which is where LO Draw > can > > be useful. There is also GIMP Image Editor, but I have never used it, > but I > > believe it is a good one. > > > > Regards > > > > PeterS > > > > Peter Schofield > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > On 23 Jun 2013, at 03:09, "[email protected]" < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Ok, will try to fix them up. > > > > > > Maybe I need to change my screenshot application. > > > > > > Shelagh > > > > > > > > > On 23 June 2013 07:09, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> From memory, they're all fuzzy; also too pale and with poor contrast. > So > > >> were a lot of others. > > >> --Jean > > >> > > >> On 22/06/2013, at 22:21, "[email protected]" < > > >> [email protected]> wrote: > > >> > > >>> Downloaded file to go through Jean's suggestions. > > >>> > > >>> Jean, are all the figures for the conditional formatting no good? Or > is > > >> it > > >>> just ones that seem fuzzy? > > >>> > > >>> Cheers > > >>> > > >>> Shelagh > > >>> > > >> > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe e-mail to: > > [email protected] > > > Problems? > > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > > > Posting guidelines + more: > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > > > List archive: > http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > > > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > > deleted > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
