Hi James, Thanks for the suggestions, I'll have to check some of them out. I already looked at KIllustrator, although I think actually Krayon (formerly K Image Shop) might be better - that should be out with KOffice 1.1 later this year. I'll try the other ones of now though. Perhaps one of them would be a good Photopaint replacement. Thanks again, Tim On Wednesday 04 April 2001 08:55 am, you wrote:
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On April 3, 2001 11:37 pm, Timothy R.Butler wrote:
Hi everyone, After trying to live with Corel Photopaint 9 for LINUX for a while, I decided I just should learn the GIMP, since it has most likely more of a future, and furthermore, is much faster under Linux. So, that leaves me trying to figure out where all of my favorite stuff is. For instance, what has me stumped right now is creating rectangles. All I would like to do is create a rectagular object - is this possible with the GIMP? For those who aren't quite sure of what I mean, I mean a rectangle that "floats" above the document (as an object) rather than one that is painted directly on the page. This makes it possible to resize it, delete it, move it behind other objects (such as text), etc.
That functionality is basically beyond the scope of the GIMP. Think of the GIMP more as PhotoPaint on steroids. There is Gfig in the GIMP, but I wouldn't really use that for creating objects like I would in Corel. (yes, I have CorelDraw for Linux but I haven't used it in a long time)
If you need CorelDraw capability there are a number of programs for doing this:
xfig: I really like this program, though you kind of have to get used to it. I wouldn't use it to create marketing materials or anything, though, unless I really mess around with it in the GIMP. I use it pretty much exclusively for diagramming (classes, networks, etc).
Sketch: I haven't used this, though I hear it's really good and the screenshots are impressive. (hey, it's Python. Have you seen crappy Python software?)
TkDraw: I haven't used this either.
KIllustrator: This is very close to CorelDraw, so I'd recommend this for more flashy things.
StarOffice Draw: I haven't used this much, but I am quite impressed with it, espcially for it's flashy graphics capabilities.
Of course, you can still use the GIMP to touch up and convert any graphic you make with any of these other programs.
Hope that helps,
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