TLUG Presentation June 2009: Beginning GIMP

[Christopher Browne]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson <cfaj-uVmiyxGBW52XDw4h08c5KA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Kevin Morris wrote:
>
>> Looks like most people want the photo editing presentation. That's
>> fine by me, I'm sure that there are things I can learn as well. At a
>> later time if there is an opening for a presentation we can revisit
>> this topic to see if there will be sufficient interest.
>>
>> Richard, unfortunately I don't know how to create images with any
>> software, other than paint (if that counts ;) ), and so my reason
>> for asking..
>
>    I create images using a text editor.
>
>    I write them in PostScript and convert them to GIFs or PNGs with
>    ImageMagick. For example: <http://cfaj.freeshell.org/webcentric/>.
>
>    If people are interested, I could prepare a talk on the subject.

My usual inclination when generating graph-like things, these days, is
to create GraphViz control files using a text editor.
<http://www.graphviz.org/>

If I intended to do detailed drawing work, I expect I'd use MetaPost
<http://www.tug.org/metapost.html>, but it has been so long since I've
done that that I actually used MetaFont
<http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/fonts/metafont.html>, because
MetaPost didn't exist back then!  :-)

Of course, this is all pretty much the antithesis of doing "visual design" :-).
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