On 2016-07-22, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > Greetings all > > I did, after 20 minutes of screwing around, finally get it to use a > selected foreground color for the text. > > But when I hit the help menu, up pops the help for 2.6! So I fire up > synaptic and check to see if I am out of date, because the "context > help" doesn't work at all. Yup, I'm up to date allright, got gimp-2.8.2 > but the doc files are for 2.6.x. Debian wheezy at your service, NOT. > > Anyway, the next problem is that I can't find a tool that will let me > draw freehand lines so I can make a few arrows that point from a line of > text to a feature in the image. Or maybe even draw a balloon around the > text pointing at the feature.
There is an arrow tool(s) plugin. Here's one: http://registry.gimp.org/node/20269 Maybe that's not what you're talking about exactly. > Did this train lose its conductor a few stops back? Or how can I back it > up to when it Just Worked(TM) quite a bit of the time? > > Cheers, Gene Heskett -- Même l’avenir n’est plus ce qu’il était. Paul Valéry