On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:27:14PM +0200, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > On Monday 24 March 2003 16:16, Ira Abramov wrote: > > I need to add a simple frame around some text. something even the oldest > > paint program on the mac had - draw a black rectangle of 2 pixels width. > > am I out of Focus or is this basic tool missing from The Gimp? > > I'd: > 1. Create the text layer. > 2. Create a new layer for the frame. > 3. Make a rectangular selection. > 4. Pick a color. > 5. Menu > Edit > Fill with FG color. > 6. Menu > Select > Shrink > 2 pixels > 7. Menu > Edit > Clear > but that's just me.
This is basically an attempt to preserve the "information" about the existance of a separate frame object, and thus make possible to later edit it. However, one wonders why not work in a vector-graphics too in the first place? Maybe use one or two bitmap objects there? And if this sound too complicated to anybody: If you still miss something in the size of paintbrush (and with compatible load time), there's always xpaint. Though I haven't quite figured how to write Hebrew text in it. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
