On Saturday 23 July 2016 18:00:30 David Wright wrote: > On Sat 23 Jul 2016 at 16:20:12 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 23 July 2016 14:15:09 David Wright wrote: > > > On Sat 23 Jul 2016 at 13:13:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Saturday 23 July 2016 08:01:37 deloptes wrote: > > > > > About your query. I prefer using Xfig in cases (probably) like > > > > > yours. As you mentioned, you want something to point (arrow) > > > > > to something. And knowing from previous posts, you are not a > > > > > Rembrand type, I can suggest using Xfig. I am not a Rembrand > > > > > type as well and I prefer importing images in Xfig, making > > > > > arrows, objects with text etc, drawing different types of > > > > > charts. It takes some time to learn (same for gimp or double > > > > > for both), but I can say that I enjoy it. > > > > > > > > Unfortunately, I just installed it, looks capable, but cannot > > > > open a .jpg? Showstopper right there, since the output would go > > > > on a web page to be viewed by all lookers. > > > > > > Open a jpeg file? How would a vector drawing program do that? > > > Or do you mean import it? > > > > Its vector based? 100% perfect explanation then. My apologies for > > bad-mouthing it then. > > > > > > Not too unsurprising given the copyright dates it displays on > > > > startup. A strange video format, unsupported by common viewing > > > > utilities, is a showstopper no matter how good it might look on > > > > my screen. It seems to me that by now a good utility from 1985, > > > > should have grown import/export from/to jpeg by 2016 even if the > > > > internal format is different. They have had less than the > > > > elapsed 31 years to work on it of course since the jpg std was > > > > only finalized in 2000, but thats still 16 years. > > > > > > > > I am glad it works well for you, but I can't use it. > > > > > > As usual, no indication of where it failed so it's difficult to > > > help you. > > > > The only file types it could open were its native format, which I > > had no idea was vector based until you mentioned it. The failure? > > an empty display window when I had navigated to the directory full > > of .JPG's right out of my camera. But as you say its vector based, > > and trying to feed it a jpg would certainly give it an upset GI > > tract. > > If your quotation is accurate, the answer may be right there. The Open > dialog has a filename mask which, being short, is obvious. > So does the Import Picture dialog, but it's much longer, scrolls, and > may not be immediately apparent. If you scroll it, you'll see the > extensions are all lower case, so no JPG's. Just change it to *, > but remember to click on Rescan; all will then appear. > > Cheers, > David.
Chuckle with a wry grin. It just so happens my camera outputs all uppercase names, including the ".JPG". So it should work. Except that while I have the camera icon along the left edge of its window, nothing over a screen refresh occurs when I click on it. There also is not an import function in the "file" menu. Am I missing a non-dependency? Or in this case, its multistep and I had to read starting at page 10 of the howto file. But I accidentally loaded the wrong pix, and once loaded, no close other than exiting the program seemed possible, so I did, and denied the save as it quit. But if my wet ram doesn't fade, I'll know how to do it next time. Thank you David. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
