On Monday 04 October 2010 07:27 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 20:01 +0530, Rony wrote: > >> 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. >> >> >> > 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. -- As a proper list etiquette... Please trim your replies. Post your replies below the relevant original text, leaving a line space. Do not re-use old messages to write new ones. Regards, Rony. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
