Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all > > 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 synaptic and check to see if I am out of date, because the "context 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? > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
Hi, 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. regards
