Re: [ILUG-BOM] GIMP does not have line draw tool

On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 20:06 +0530, jtd wrote:

On Sunday 03 October 2010 20:01:46 Rony wrote:

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Hello,

I had to draw a map for someone and required to use the straight line tool. I found to my dismay that GIMP (2.6.8) does not have a straight line drawing tool. How can the developers forget such a basic thing? I had to download tuxpaint for the job and it did just that.

you need the xfig plugin to draw geometric shapes.

I searched Synaptic on Ubuntu and found xfig as a separate program and not as a plugin to GIMP. Turns out the plugin is called Gfig and is part of the standard GIMP distribution since 1998. It is accessed by Filters>>Render>>Gfig

Regards, Easwar