On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 09:19:47PM +0200, Joe Schaffner wrote: > > I know Microsoft Paint pretty well, so you can imagine my surprise > when I opened up gimp. > > It looks like a paint program but it's not. I discovered I can draw > ellipses and rectangles by "selecting" a path then "stroking" the > path. > there is a difference between "selections" and "paths". there are also two dialogs: Dialogs/Selection Editor and Dialogs/Paths
> Pretty neat. > > But I'm having a hell of a time selecting and moving objects around. > > It looks like each Text object is being placed its own "layer". > Dialogs/Layers gimp displays paths and layers similarly (in a stack) and the same transformation tools work on them but they are not the same sort of information. paths are points and shaped segments and layers are made up of pixels. > What exactly is a layer? > Do I select an object by selecting the layer? > Do I move the whole layer? > Does it make sense to draw inside a text object? > Is it an object at all? > most of these questions can be answered by working through a tutorial in the beginners section of the tutorials at www.gimp.org > All I need is a monocrome gif, but it would be nice if the resulting > drawing were scalable, one which would grow and shrink if the user > zooms in using the browser. > > Does gimp do that? > scalable gif? no. gimp doesn't make scalable gif. does mspaint make them? > I have friends who use AutoCad and are always talking about scalable, > vector graphics. AutoCad also uses layers, but I've forgotten exactly > what the were. > i am pretty sure that AutoCad is not making a scalable gif. it would be scaling a file and converting it at the last minute to be a gif. the closest thing gimp has to AutoCad dynamics are the paths. you can make and edit paths with the pathtool and further manipulate them with the paths dialog. i have a script that adds some further editing ability to them http://carol.gimp.org/gimp/scripting/paths.html > Can you help? > you seem to be doing fairly well on your own. skip my web site if you are not using at least a gimp-2.3.5 carol _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
