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Re: [trinity-devel] Graphics help requested

From: Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:15:00 -0700 (PDT)
> Try the attached.

Thank you so much! Looks great and exactly like I wanted. :-)

> > I tried karbon, but I'm beginning to believe karbon is
> user-hostile. I am able to draw a diagonal line with 
> >libreoffice draw, but I cannot figure out how to draw a
> line with rounded ends and found no help online.
> 
> An examination shows that Karbon has no pen tool, which
> really should be added. It also has no obvious way to delete individual points from
> a shape (if it did have, you could have scribbled a pencil line then deleted the
> intermediate points to straighten it). These are pretty serious deficiencies for what's supposed to
> be a usable vector editing application.

Thank you for your observations. I won't pretend to have much knowledge about drawing apps and therefore won't pretend I have standing to complain. But basics are basics and new users should be able at least to draw a simple line.

I tinkered some more with libreoffice draw, but still can't draw a line with rounded ends. I drew a rectangle with round edges. Looked nice until I realized libreoffice draw had changed the borders from "dashed" to solid/full all around the image. Not sure what is up with that. Yet as a basic drawing app, I think I can learn and adapt to libreoffice draw. Too bad karbon can't do the basics.

Darrell