On Sunday 03 October 2010 20:21:18 Easwar Hariharan wrote: > 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
Thanks for the correction. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
