Need Graphics

[Ted Ozolins]

On Monday 29 July 2002 21:51, Joel Hammer wrote:
> 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
Have you tried " GIMP" file -> open ->some_graphic_file then when you are 
finished with the artwork, right click on the image ->files ->save as . Click 
on the "determine file type" and select the extension you need. Works for me.

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Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO)
Westbank, B. C.