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Post by Vermin King on May 3, 2016 4:08:18 GMT -9
1. Open Gimp 2. Open up a pdf of a sheet of figures about the same size as the figures I want to have a sheet of. 3. Open a figure image that I want on the sheet. 4. Using the 'noose' (free select) tool, go around the figure as close to the lines as I can without messing it up. When you close the noose, you can Right Click/ Edit/ Copy. 5. Paste onto the formatted sheet. 6. Slide it over to where the top left corner of your figure is about where the top left corner of one is on the sheet. 7. Re-size with a tool that is on the left edge of the toolbox. I think three down from the top of the toolbox. 8. Center over the tab. 9. If the image has no back, I generally do a mirror for the back. Still having not anchored the selection (by selecting rectangle select in the toolbox and clicking outside the selected figure), we need to copy/paste with the right click deal. This gives a new figure image on top of the one we just placed. There is a 'flip/mirror' tool, one spot in from the right of the toolbox on the row below 'rotate'. When you select this tool, when you click on the selected image, it flips horizontally. Now go to the 'rotate' tool. When you click on the image, it gives a new hint box. Using the slider, rotate the flipped image 180 degrees. Then you have to hit the rotate button, I forget what it is called. Now select the rectangle select again and slide this to where the back should be.
10. Now you can anchor by clicking outside your image. I usually draw a black line, 3-pixels wide, outside the reverse image, then use the bucket-fill to put black between the figure and my line, yielding a wide border on the back.
Repeat for however many figures you can put on the page
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Post by Vermin King on May 3, 2016 5:19:30 GMT -9
I'm going to come back and clean this up later, but I hope that it will help some folks. Took me a while to get this worked out. If this had been available when I got started, it would have made things easier. Of course, I learn things better when I have to figure them out myself. I'm sure there is a better way to do this, but it works for me
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Post by cowboyleland on May 3, 2016 14:13:07 GMT -9
Rather than flipping horizontally and rotating 180 you can just flip vertically (if I follow you correctly.)
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Post by Vermin King on May 3, 2016 15:05:35 GMT -9
Flipping vertically is not something I've figured out ...
Why use an art knife if you can use a sledgehammer? I told you it was rough and dirty
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Post by cowboyleland on May 4, 2016 12:57:49 GMT -9
Try it, you'll like it.
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