David B Teague schrieb:
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I should have mentioned my specific application. I have an image
obtained from a screen snapshot. I then save in the (painfully
primitive) Paint utility. I could save in several graphics formats (but
not the native Draw format). I'd save it in Draw directly, but I could
not figure out how to do this.
The image is of a short music exercise with finger notations for a
different instrument than the one I play. I'd like to erase the existing
numbers and replace them with something more appropriate to my instrument.
I'll post further inquiry again once I have played with this tutorial.
It occurs to me that I used to use MS Word to create such drawings, blow
them up to 200% and edit pixel by pixel. I'll try that with OO.o
Writer's graphics facilities.
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If you want to erase something out of a picture, I would strongly
recommend you to use an application which was designed for this task.
Use "The GIMP" -- free as free beer and free as in freedom.
This is a very powerful application, below are some download links and
links to documentation and tutorials:
http://www.gimp.org/windows/
http://www.gimp.org/docs/
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/
OpenOffice Draw's draw is more for vector graphics.
If you don't want to install the gimp it is available as a portable
application as well (--> then the "installation" is just an extraction
of a compressed archive without modifications to the system). Portable
applications run entirely in the memory and are slower than installed ones.
Here is the link to gimp portable and a screenshot facility:
http://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/gimp_portable
http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/lightscreen_portable
One final note: gimp is far more powerful than ms paint. Therefore it
requires a little bit of training. But as you mentioned that you take a
look at the documentation or the manual you will be well off.
Franz
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