Hi Gary - IMHO, there are two options to achieve this with less pain:
1) Enable "snap to canvas edges" on the view menu. If needed, fiddle with the snap distance in edit->preferences->Tool options. 2) Script it. it would not be a complicated script-fu or python-fu script, and it would allow precise positioning as an optional thing. 3) Use the align tool. Hey wait---didn't I mention "2 painless methods". Indeed, still IMHO, GIMP's align tool is arcane enough I can't consider its use painless. It _should_ enable you to do what you want - just don't ask me how. :-) js -><- On 2 January 2014 21:38, Gary Aitken <g...@dreamchaser.org> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Either I am blind or incompetent, maybe both... a hint would be much > appreciated: > > I wanted to set up a template for dealing with printing four images on a > sheet. > > I created an image the size of the sheet and then added four layers, each of > the > desired image size which needed to be positioned appropriately. > > When I went to position the images, I could not find any reasonable way with > the > move command or with any of the layer operations to position each layer > precisely. > By that I mean simply type in the coordinates of the upper left corner, or > move > with the mouse where I see a text version of the upper left coordinate of the > new > layer position as I move. > > If trying to position using the mouse, the lower left of the status line shows > the position of the pointer itself, so that is useless in positioning the > layer > as a whole; and the numbers to the right of the per-cent size display show how > much the layer has moved relative to its starting position, not the absolute > position of the upper left corner. (I'll grant that the latter is useful, but > in this case one needs something else, particularly if a layer has been moved > and needs to be repositioned to a fixed location.) > > The only way I could get what I wanted was to expand to 800%, and at that > magnification I could grab the upper left corner with the mouse so the mouse > position was itself the upper left corner position. > Surely there's a better way? > > Layer/Layer to Boundary Size... does not appear to work as advertised. The > offset appears > to be relative to the original size of the layer, not the original size of > the image. > The panner image is limited to the size of the layer, not the image. > When you first bring up the dialog, you are unable to reposition the layer > unless you change > the layer size to make the layer smaller. If you make the layer half the > size of its original > size and then click "Center", the offset is set to - 1/2 the size of the > original image, > not + 1/2, which seems bizarre. The layer is scaled properly, and ends up > where you > would expect (based on the center command given, but not based on the offsets > indicated), > but the values in the Offset boxes seem to have the wrong sign. It works by > moving the original layer relative to the desired new layer, rather than > position the new > layer size relative to the image. Which means you can't move the layer > relative to the image > if the layer is smaller than the image, and the graphic panner doesn't show > you the layer > position relative to the image as a whole. It is not at all intuitive and is > not useful > for quite a few common cases. > > Layer/Transform/Offset shifts the contents, but not the layer itself. Which > is what it > is supposed to do, so that's ok; it's just not usable for this operation. > > Thanks for any clues, > > Gary > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
