Re: [Gimp-user] layer positioning

2014-01-03 Thread tom
On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 22:42:47 -0200 Joao S. O. Bueno gwid...@mpc.com.br wrote: 1) Enable snap to canvas edges on the view menu. If needed, fiddle with the snap distance in edit-preferences-Tool options. Is there a way to make this on by default? ___

Re: [Gimp-user] layer positioning

2014-01-03 Thread akovia
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014, at 07:18 AM, tom wrote: On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 22:42:47 -0200 Joao S. O. Bueno gwid...@mpc.com.br wrote: 1) Enable snap to canvas edges on the view menu. If needed, fiddle with the snap distance in edit-preferences-Tool options. Is there a way to make this on by

Re: [Gimp-user] layer positioning

2014-01-03 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
Indeed, I just now saw there are no options for setting the defaults for the various snap to options. I always assumed they where along the display (guides, selection, layer borders) configurations. js -- On 3 January 2014 11:30, akovia akov...@eml.cc wrote: On Fri, Jan 3, 2014, at 07:18

[Gimp-user] layer positioning

2014-01-02 Thread Gary Aitken
Hi folks, Either I am blind or incompetent, maybe both... a hint would be much appreciated: I wanted to set up a template for dealing with printing four images on a sheet. I created an image the size of the sheet and then added four layers, each of the desired image size which needed to be

Re: [Gimp-user] layer positioning

2014-01-02 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
Hi Gary - IMHO, there are two options to achieve this with less pain: 1) Enable snap to canvas edges on the view menu. If needed, fiddle with the snap distance in edit-preferences-Tool options. 2) Script it. it would not be a complicated script-fu or python-fu script, and it would allow precise

Re: [Gimp-user] layer positioning

2014-01-02 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
On 2 January 2014 22:42, Joao S. O. Bueno gwid...@mpc.com.br wrote: 3) Use the align tool. Hey wait---didn't I mention 2 painless methods. Indeed, still IMHO, GIMP's align tool is arcane enough I can't consider its use painless. It _should_ enable you to do what you want - just don't ask me

Re: [Gimp-user] layer positioning

2014-01-02 Thread Gary Aitken
On 01/02/14 17:48, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: Ok- that was unfair of me - it is actually easy to do this with the align tool once one grasps one or two concepts of its operation. Took me less than 2 minutes. a) select the align tool on the toolbox. b) click on one of your layers c) Verify

Re: [Gimp-user] layer positioning

2014-01-02 Thread akovia
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014, at 08:46 PM, Gary Aitken wrote: On 01/02/14 17:48, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: This would be great, but... I must be missing something; running 2.8.10 on fbsd. When I click on the alignment buttons, nothing happens, and they don't change appearance on mouse-down or

Re: [Gimp-user] layer positioning

2014-01-02 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 16:38 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: Hi folks, Either I am blind or incompetent, maybe both... a hint would be much appreciated: I wanted to set up a template for dealing with printing four images on a sheet. This may or may not be useful to you but note that you could