On Saturday 23 July 2016 08:34:28 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 7/22/16, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > Greetings all > > > > I did, after 20 minutes of screwing around, finally get it to use a > > selected foreground color for the text. > > > > But when I hit the help menu, up pops the help for 2.6! So I fire > > up synaptic and check to see if I am out of date, because the > > "context help" doesn't work at all. Yup, I'm up to date allright, > > got gimp-2.8.2 but the doc files are for 2.6.x. Debian wheezy at > > your service, NOT. > > > > Anyway, the next problem is that I can't find a tool that will let > > me draw freehand lines so I can make a few arrows that point from a > > line of text to a feature in the image. Or maybe even draw a > > balloon around the text pointing at the feature. > > Hi.. CC'ing GIMP User, but I don't know if it will go through. So if > this does go through.. Hey All, HUGE FAN for *MANY* years, #ThankYou! > That said, I JUST yesterday stumbled on something that mostly > accomplished this although it wasn't quite what I was looking for > myself. > > In the one toolbar that pops up with "CTRL-B (I think that's it, not > near that laptop to verify), I double click on the pen icon which > brings up selections of various pen types, shapes. For me in whatever > version is in Sid Unstable, there's a horizontal line choice near the > top of the pen shapes. > > Once clicked, I was offered the option to change its horizontal > thickness (not its length that I noticed, anyway). For what I was > doing, I liked its effect because its final thickness varied with how > you dragged it across screen. If that doesn't fit your need, maybe one > of the other shapes while get you what you need.
I tried that exact sequence, several times, but when I tried to click on the path points, I never did get the bar drawn because I could not find a way out out the click points mode, getting all sorts of zig-zag-zig lines that were never drawn, but could be undone. I suspect there is a way, but with the docs so damned ancient, was it worth trying to read that lengthy tome from the top to find it. At my age, 81, I am conscious of makeing something of my remaining time, whether its another 25 years or another 5 minutes. However, the arrow script someone sent me a link to (thank you someone!) had an option to delete the path when it was drawn, so with it checked, I could click the ending and starting points of the arrow, call the script and click OK, and it was done, so I could move to the next place I wanted an arrow, set the two points using the path tool, wash, rinse and repeat, Nice. I was able to finish the last of about 17 pix in half an hour this morning. gimp should work that way "out of the box". And I just found the 2.8.2 docs online, with the gimp browser. But it won't let me download them so I can update mine. That, seriously needs fixed. OTOH, firefox was also able to locate a tar.bz2 of 152 megs so its pouring in now. Done in fact. Now to see if it has an install script. This may take a few, so I'll snip and send > That last little popup after double clicking the pen was a > hit-and-miss find in last couple years. Kind of a hail Mary deal where > that little window no longer was present where I remembered it used to > just be there by magic ages ago. May be a preference setting I'm just > missing. The hail Mary was I double clicked that icon as a desperate > last play, and that window popped up = WOOHOO! :D > > Good luck! > > Cindy (Sue) It might be getting better Cindy, take care now. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list