[CALUG] adding simple text to images

[John Alan Hastings]

The question of the gimp or LibreOffice (nee OpenOffice) boils down to
this: the gimp is a tool for working on images; LO is a tool for
producing documents.  For working on images, the difference can be
explained like this: the gimp is like walking into a professional
woodworkers shop.  The tools are all sharp and stored in decent order,
and they are all there.  The place is clean and you have room to work.
LibreOffice is more like the handy tool set you buy to have around the
house.

The learning curve for the gimp is steeper; the learning curve for a
master woodworker is steeper than being a Saturday fixit guy around the
house.  In both cases, when you have climbed the steeper curve, you will
have sharper skills.

By the way, an OO/LO document is nothing but a zipped file.  If you have
a OO/LO document with images in it, and you want to work on them in the
gimp, simply unzip the document and you will find a subdirectory
containing the images.  They will have funny names, but they are
standard jpeg, gif, png and such files, and you can work on them in the
gimp, put them back into the document, and zip it back up.  (Make sure
that the original document file is not present in the directory you are
going to zip or OO/LO will not accept the file.  I suggest making a
subdirectory, cd'ing into it and doing something like unzip ../foo.odt
to keep the original file out of it).

Alan

Walt Smith wrote:
> 
> Thanks to all who replied via email.
> I had to go beyond the textual descriptions to git 'er done.
> 
> And thanks to about 6 people who all
> crowded around one guys Asus... at the monthly meeting.
> He had a boot problem fixed by the C-gang
> and the thingy was subsequently used to perform
> a real live demo of gimp showing what a layer was,
> and both how to cut a section, and to paste over a
> selection with a white field so it could eb redrawn.
> 
> I've been able to sucessfully duplicate the basic feat at home
> on a very sllghtly older gimp ... but it took awhile:  My tools aren't
> docked: I can't dock them as per the Asus at club meeting, and my Layer
> window
> wasn't showing at all: I finally found ( after about 45 minutes )
> Windows -> recently closed docks ->
> and got it to display !!!  And I now know that I WILL have have multiple
> selections
> showing that can't be made to go away...  but they can be made to appear
> elsewhere... ( very strange indeed ).
> 
> Ain't ** nothin ** like real hands-on in some cases... like gimp... !!!
> 
> 
> I suppose, if I feel challenged, like tieing my shoelaces, someone may
> give me a demo on how to do the dirty deed on OO, as suggested by one
> person..
> But I think I'll wait a month for that.
> 
> In the meantime, I have the absolute minimum to accomplish my task.
> 
> oh, and the demo on using Sourceforge by Jim Sansing wasn't bad either.
> Not too technical, not too general, not off-course--
> just about right.
> 
> 
> 
> thx again !
> 
> 
> 
> Walt........
> 
> 
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