Re: [Gimp-user] Next gotcha
On Sat 23 Jul 2016 at 13:13:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 23 July 2016 08:01:37 deloptes wrote:
> > Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > 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 up synaptic and check to see if I am out of date, because the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.
> > >
> > > 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?
> >
> > I'm not member of the gimp list and don't want to be, so I just
> > removed them.
> >
> > About your query. I prefer using Xfig in cases (probably) like yours.
> > As you mentioned, you want something to point (arrow) to something.
> > And knowing from previous posts, you are not a Rembrand type, I can
> > suggest using Xfig. I am not a Rembrand type as well and I prefer
> > importing images in Xfig, making arrows, objects with text etc,
> > drawing different types of charts. It takes some time to learn (same
> > for gimp or double for both), but I can say that I enjoy it.
>
> Unfortunately, I just installed it, looks capable, but cannot open
> a .jpg? Showstopper right there, since the output would go on a web
> page to be viewed by all lookers.
Open a jpeg file? How would a vector drawing program do that?
Or do you mean import it?
> Not too unsurprising given the copyright dates it displays on startup. A
> strange video format, unsupported by common viewing utilities, is a
> showstopper no matter how good it might look on my screen. It seems to
> me that by now a good utility from 1985, should have grown import/export
> from/to jpeg by 2016 even if the internal format is different. They have
> had less than the elapsed 31 years to work on it of course since the jpg
> std was only finalized in 2000, but thats still 16 years.
>
> I am glad it works well for you, but I can't use it.
As usual, no indication of where it failed so it's difficult to help you.
All I can do therefore is tell you how I just imported a jpeg picture
of my house in xfig.
1) Click on the camera icon with "picture" written at the bottom.
2) Click on the screen where you want the top-left corner.
3) Click where you want the bottom-right corner. An Edit Panel
will appear.
4) Click on Browse.
5) Select the directory/file that you want to open.
6) Click on Apply.
7) Click on Close.
8) Click on Done.
If you could let us know where your system failed, we might be
able to tell if a library is missong from your system, or whether
it was just finger-trouble.
Cheers,
David.
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