[Gimp-user] GIMP is Great

2006-01-24 Thread Joe Schaffner
Hi Everyone, I have SuSE Linux 9.2 and need to do some simple line drawings I'm doing for a book I'm translating. The site is at: http://www.geocities.com/klairbab/ 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 n

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: GIMP is Great

2006-01-25 Thread Joe Schaffner
On 1/25/06, Roel Schroeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joe Schaffner schreef: > > 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. > > AutoCad is

[Gimp-user] Re: GIMP is Great

2006-01-26 Thread Joe Schaffner
dn't tell what gimp was just by looking at it. There sure are alot of windows. How would I go about creating an mspaint user interface for the gimp? Can I do it with your scheme interpreter? Curious thing, AutoCad also has a Lisp interface, which none of my architect friends can use.

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: GIMP is Great

2006-01-31 Thread Joe Schaffner
> > > > Who inspired who? > > > meanwhile, ICQ claims all .scm (i read this somewhere on the internet) > Sorry, what is ICQ and .scm? > to me, personally, it speaks well of your friends to not be able to use > lisp. It also makes me more useful. :) Thanks Carol, Gr

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: GIMP is Great

2006-02-01 Thread Joe Schaffner
these programs is purely instinctive. When you learn how to do it you can do it in a flash. No need to explain how it works to use it, it's like driving a car. I envy you graphics designers. You are in touch with your inner selves, very creative, men and women of few words. All this comes nat

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: GIMP is Great

2006-02-01 Thread Joe Schaffner
better. I couldn't even begin to remember what I did, because I made alot of mistakes. A couple times Gimp seemed to get confused and the move operations didn't move but copy the figures, so I would quit and reopen the drawing. Actually, I'm quite happy with the quality,