Hi Rony,
On 10/03/2010 08:53 PM, Rony wrote:
On Sunday 03 October 2010 08:36 PM, Yohan Pereira wrote:
On Sunday 03 October 2010 8:01:46 pm Rony wrote:
I found to my dismay that GIMP (2.6.8) does not have a straight line drawing tool.
actually its not so obvious but select any drawing tool (like paint brush or pencil). click (and release) at the place you want to start the point, then hold shift and click on the desired end position .... tada!!!
Thanks Yohan, this is great too.
Although you got your answer, I should point out something. From the GIMP FAQ (the very first question, in fact !) ( http://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html ):
""" ...It is a raster editor, which means that it performs operations directly on the pixels that make up the image, and not a vector editor. Other (proprietary) raster editors include Adobe Photoshop, Jasc Paintshop Pro and the humble Microsoft Paint. .... """
Drawing a straight line is not a 'simple' thing in raster graphics. Think of vector graphics as drawing technical diagrams with scales, compass, D ..etc and raster as painting. Or most accurately, if you need to draw lines, circles, flowcharts, boxes etc which are based on simple (2D) mathematical equations, you need a vector graphics application. Whereas if you want to touch up a photograph or edit a wallpaper (which work on individual pixels) you need a raster graphics application.
If you need vector graphics applications in linux, use xfig, dia, tuxpaint etc. If you need raster use gimp.
Read more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_graphics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster_graphics
cheers, - steve