On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 11:18 +0530, Rony wrote: > > inkscape is there - GIMP is an image manipulating program. 'nix > > philosophy is 'many small apps each aimed at one thing and does it > well, > > rather than one big app that claims to do many things - and usually > does > > most of them badly' > > > > I just wanted to make a small road map for a particular place to send > to > a friend and needed a simple editor to draw straight and diagonal > lines. > All major image (pixel) editors have line drawing features via a line > tool. In GIMP it turns out to be a hidden function thats all.
do not use GIMP to draw road maps. It is like the guy who was using microsoft word to write C programs and wondering why they would not compile. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
