Hi :) Yes, using Draw would be more ideal and yes that is known as "eating your own dogfood" although i have begun to see that phrase as a potentially offensive in certain cultures.
I do hand-drawn arrows in the hope that they look friendly and cute or just avoid them entirely. Regards from Tom :0 >________________________________ > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >To: Tom Davies <[email protected]> >Cc: Peter Schofield <[email protected]>; >"[email protected]" <[email protected]> >Sent: Wednesday, 26 June 2013, 13:26 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] GC chapter 2 Enter, edit, format > > >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 > > > -- 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
