Hi Rony, On 10/03/2010 08:53 PM, Rony wrote: > On Sunday 03 October 2010 08:36 PM, Yohan Pereira wrote: >> On Sunday 03 October 2010 8:01:46 pm Rony wrote: >> >>> I found to my dismay that GIMP (2.6.8) does not have a straight >>> line drawing tool. >>> >> actually its not so obvious but select any drawing tool (like paint brush or >> pencil). click (and release) at the place you want to start the point, then >> hold shift and click on the desired end position .... tada!!! >> > Thanks Yohan, this is great too. >
Although you got your answer, I should point out something. From the GIMP FAQ (the very first question, in fact !) ( http://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html ): """ ...It is a raster editor, which means that it performs operations directly on the pixels that make up the image, and not a vector editor. Other (proprietary) raster editors include Adobe Photoshop, Jasc Paintshop Pro and the humble Microsoft Paint. .... """ Drawing a straight line is not a 'simple' thing in raster graphics. Think of vector graphics as drawing technical diagrams with scales, compass, D ..etc and raster as painting. Or most accurately, if you need to draw lines, circles, flowcharts, boxes etc which are based on simple (2D) mathematical equations, you need a vector graphics application. Whereas if you want to touch up a photograph or edit a wallpaper (which work on individual pixels) you need a raster graphics application. If you need vector graphics applications in linux, use xfig, dia, tuxpaint etc. If you need raster use gimp. Read more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_graphics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster_graphics cheers, - steve -- random spiel: http://lonetwin.net/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
