On 7/22/16, 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 synaptic and check to see if I am out of date, because the "context 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.
Hi.. CC'ing GIMP User, but I don't know if it will go through. So if this does go through.. Hey All, HUGE FAN for *MANY* years, #ThankYou! That said, I JUST yesterday stumbled on something that mostly accomplished this although it wasn't quite what I was looking for myself. In the one toolbar that pops up with "CTRL-B (I think that's it, not near that laptop to verify), I double click on the pen icon which brings up selections of various pen types, shapes. For me in whatever version is in Sid Unstable, there's a horizontal line choice near the top of the pen shapes. Once clicked, I was offered the option to change its horizontal thickness (not its length that I noticed, anyway). For what I was doing, I liked its effect because its final thickness varied with how you dragged it across screen. If that doesn't fit your need, maybe one of the other shapes while get you what you need. That last little popup after double clicking the pen was a hit-and-miss find in last couple years. Kind of a hail Mary deal where that little window no longer was present where I remembered it used to just be there by magic ages ago. May be a preference setting I'm just missing. The hail Mary was I double clicked that icon as a desperate last play, and that window popped up = WOOHOO! :D Good luck! Cindy (Sue) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *
