I got it to "work." But, there must be an easier way. I guess I will have to read about gfig before I get it to do anything really useful. Thanks for the tip.
All I want to do is put a few arrows in an image with labels. This seems much harder to do than it should be! Joel On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:55:17PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:29:46AM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote: > >Can you supply more detail? > > > >I can't find it in my gimp installation, and I went to the gimp plugin > >repository and couldn't find it, either. I searched for arrow and drawing. > > > >I don't know much about gimp, being no graphic artist. BUT, now that I > >know how to add text to an image, all I need to do is put some arrows > >into the image and I'll be ready to get some work done. > > I haven't used this more than to play with it briefly. At any place in the > screen, press the right mouse button, Filters->Render->gfig to get into the > drawing program. This is basically a line drawing program similar to xfig. > > When I have a lot of text to use in an image, and want really good text, > I'll import the image into xfig, add the text, then save it as PostScript. > This results in true PostScript fonts rather than bitmapped fonts and often > prints much better. > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
