Re: [Gimp-user] Next gotcha
On 2016-07-22, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> Greetings all
>
> I did, after 20 minutes of screwing around, finally get it to use a
> selected foreground color for the text.
>
> But when I hit the help menu, up pops the help for 2.6! So I fire up
> synaptic and check to see if I am out of date, because the "context
> help" doesn't work at all. Yup, I'm up to date allright, got gimp-2.8.2
> but the doc files are for 2.6.x. Debian wheezy at your service, NOT.
>
> Anyway, the next problem is that I can't find a tool that will let me
> draw freehand lines so I can make a few arrows that point from a line of
> text to a feature in the image. Or maybe even draw a balloon around the
> text pointing at the feature.
There is an arrow tool(s) plugin. Here's one:
http://registry.gimp.org/node/20269
Maybe that's not what you're talking about exactly.
> Did this train lose its conductor a few stops back? Or how can I back it
> up to when it Just Worked(TM) quite a bit of the time?
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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