[OCLUG-Tech] Elementary graphics question (not directly Linux technical)

2011-09-09 Thread Bruce Miller
My questions to this list are not always directly "Linux technical." But I do always appreciate the patience and helpfulness of participants on this list. The current challenge tells me that I have forgotten everything I ever knew about graphics, and that was very little to begin with. I am not

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Elementary graphics question (not directly Linux technical)

2011-09-09 Thread John C Nash
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 brig

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Elementary graphics question (not directly Linux technical)

2011-09-09 Thread Bill Strosberg
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 co

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Elementary graphics question (not directly Linux technical)

2011-09-09 Thread Rick
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 back

[OCLUG-Tech] Elementary graphics question (not directly Linux technical)

2011-09-09 Thread Bruce Miller
My questions to this list are not always directly "Linux technical." But I do always appreciate the patience and helpfulness of participants on this list. The current challenge tells me that I have forgotten everything I ever knew about graphics, and that was very little to begin with. I am not