drawing shapes in gimp?

[Myles Braithwaite]

Why don't you just use Inkscape or Tux Paint.

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Rajinder Yadav <devguy-DaQTI0RpDDMAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

>
> 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-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org>
> > Subject: Re: [TLUG]: drawing shapes in gimp?
> > To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.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
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > --
> > Matt Price
> > matt..price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
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