drawing shapes in gimp?

[Rajinder Yadav]

I wonder are there any plug-ins for GIMP that allow for drawing, surely someone else might have wanted to do draw (on pictures) besides matt or myself?

Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav


--- On Wed, 6/24/09, Matt Price <matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> From: Matt Price <matt.price at utoronto.ca>
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: drawing shapes in gimp?
> To: tlug at ss.org
> Received: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 12:47 AM
> 
> On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 15:31 -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson
> wrote:
> > 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
> 
> ah.  very nice.  so now you're telling me that to
> draw, i need to learn
> postscript?  that was NOT what i wanted to
> hear...  still very cool.
> having trouble understnading what's going on, though. 
> suppose i want
> the picture 5 times as big?  i guess i can scale it in
> gimp -- though
> now i try it out, that doesn't seem trivial to do. 
> and if i want to
> generate the initial picture with one point going straight
> up?  these
> pics are just slightly off to the side, i guess about 10
> degrees.
> again, i can rotate in gimp...  but it'd be nice if
> the script just did
> it perfectly, wouldn't it.  any chance you could
> explain what you're
> doing here a bit more fully?
> 
> anyway, thanks very much, this is very interesting.
> 
> matt
> 
> 
> 
> > 
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