Re: Totaly OT: how to cut up pictures
On August 29, 2001 01:43 am, Nico De Ranter wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I'm afraid this is not realy Debian related but I'm not sure where
> to turn to otherwise and you guys seem to now everything anyway :-)
>
> I'm looking for a (free) tool (Linux or Windows, Linux prefered ofcourse)
> to cut up an image in rows and columns. I'm writing a webinterface to my
> ethernet switches, I have a drawing of the switch but I would like to be
> able to color the ports depending on some criteria. I figure the easiest
> way to do this is to cut up the image, create an HTMl table that fits it
> back together and fill in the correct images for the
> status of the ports. I tried a number of image editors to cut up
> the original image but I found no program that is able the at least
> cut an image into two new images. In stead I have to select a part,
> cut it into a new image, select another piece... But I always end up
> having pieces with 1 line too much or missing :-(. There has to be
> something outthere...
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Nico
>
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This is easy to do if you are using TheGimp. What you need to do is use
guides, and then make a selection that follows the guides, you will have
perfectly sized selections every time.
Basically, click on one of the rulers, and drag in to the image, it will drag
move a line there. Move enough of these lines to create a grid like the table
that you want to split your image in to. Then make sure you have "Snap To
Guides" enabled in the view menu, and just make a square selection, it should
snap to the guides. Then just copy, and paste to a new image. Rinse and
repeat as necessary.
Hmm.. this has got me thinking, this kind of thing is very useful and could
probably be automated, I should write some gimp scripts to automate the
process... but I digress. Hope this works for you as good as it worked for me
:D
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Kamil Kisiel
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