Need Graphics

[Joel Hammer]

Hmmmm....
This looks tougher than it ought to be. Dang.
I tried various programs, gimp, kpaint, kword, wp8, staroffice, and so on. 
I tried to download the GIMP manual with opera 6.02, won't work. Netscape
6.2 works, IE works of course. Its pretty bad when the gimp manual won't
work in opera. Anyway, text boxes in straight forward gimp suck. They suggest
you use a dynamic plugin. Haa.
I can't see how to save in any useful formats, like gif or jpg from various
wordprocessing and presentation software.
I also had no luck trying to convert postscript to jpeg.
This must be possible.
Hmmm....
Why not just prepare your artful design in anything, print it out on high
quality paper, and then scan it in?
SOLUTION:
Geeeeez......
Use StarOffice Presentation, use a template with a text box, write your
text, then EXPORT it (don't save it) to a tif file. Then xv can work with
it.
This took me about 45 minutes to figure out. This is really a nuisance!!!
Joel
P.S. Hope it works.


'On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 10:21:57PM -0500, Richard R. Sivernell wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 20:12:17 -0700
> Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:
> 
> Lonnie Ken
> 
>   I opened it up and tried to enter text into the drawing area, but 
> nothing happened. I really do not have a lot of time to build graphics
> for some web pages. Was trying to do the following:
> 
>    D & R Consulting Search Engine   with each letter in a different 
> bright colour.  Now before you guy's come down hard on me, I have hardley
> ever used the gimp. Simple coloured text should be simple. I can do 
> what I want in Coreldraw9 on winders machine, but can not save in a 
> useful format.  Now I all for learning something at any time, I know 
> you probably know the gimp & help is always appreciated.
> 
> cheers
> -- 
> Rick Sivernell
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