drawing shapes in gimp?

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Matt Price wrote:

> hey there,
> 
> I need to draw a simple picture, a five-pointed star on a monocolor
> background.  What would be the best way for me to this in gimp or some
> other program?

$ cat star.ps
%!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-2.0
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 70 70
.7 .2 .2 setrgbcolor
20 0 moveto
5 { 50 50 rlineto 144 rotate } repeat fill
$ convert -trim star.ps star.png

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