My first thought also was for GIMP, but I recall Mary and I used Open Office (I now use the Libre Office successor) with some success for an application like this, putting the image as a background. It may, of course, need some GIMPing first to suitably colour or fade the image by adjusting brightness/contrast/etc., or if that is too big a learning cost, Irfanview (which runs fine under Wine and I find a better recommendation for those not needing lots of horsepower -- also a good Thumbnails setup for sorting and cleaning images).
However, a simple background can be applied easily in LO using Format/Page/Background/As(graphic), and then the foreground can use all the fonts in the shop as needed. Best, JN On 09/09/2011 02:52 PM, Bill Strosberg wrote: > On 11-09-09 01:27 PM, Rick wrote: >> Could you attach the image? >> >> If it is of decent quality (probably not if it was in a .doc) perhaps >> you could round trip it back to vector format it with trace in >> InkScape. >> >> Then you could do whatever you want with it. >> >> If it's a musical score, you could probably just use the png as a >> temporary background template and redraw it in InkScape. I do that >> all the time. > > With all due respect, it seems just a basic task of opening the graphic > in GIMP (or whatever) and changing the image mode to RGB (so color > works) and then copying the layer, and inserting a transparent > background layer. Choose the copied layer and adjust layer opacity to > whatever you like. You can also select the background color on this > layer and delete it. > > There is no need to change it into vector unless you intend to scale it > and the original image is ugly at the new size. > > Once you've got something that works, save it as an image format that > handles tranparency (PNG) and Bob's yer Uncle. Took me about 30 seconds > to do this as I don't play with GIMP every day. > > The GIMP is a little intimidating at first click, but once you use it a > couple times it is actually simpler than Photoshop for a lot of tasks. > If this project is problematic or very time sensitive, you could send me > the image and I could do this for you in a couple minutes. > > -- > Bill > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
