On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 20:06 +0530, jtd wrote: > On Sunday 03 October 2010 20:01:46 Rony wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I had to draw a map for someone and required to use the straight > > line tool. I found to my dismay that GIMP (2.6.8) does not have a > > straight line drawing tool. How can the developers forget such a > > basic thing? I had to download tuxpaint for the job and it did just > > that. > > you need the xfig plugin to draw geometric shapes.
I searched Synaptic on Ubuntu and found xfig as a separate program and not as a plugin to GIMP. Turns out the plugin is called Gfig and is part of the standard GIMP distribution since 1998. It is accessed by Filters>>Render>>Gfig Regards, Easwar -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
