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Simple drawing tools?

Posted May 8, 2012 16:55 UTC (Tue) by sfeam (subscriber, #2841)
In reply to: Simple drawing tools? by andrel
Parent article: GIMP 2.8 released

Yes, exactly. My major use for GIMP was to annotate images to prepare figures for illustrating scientific papers (arrows, labels, brackets, cropping, compositing). However, Inkscape is now a much better tool for this purpose.

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Posted May 24, 2012 17:35 UTC (Thu) by dashesy (subscriber, #74652) [Link]

Maybe some plug-ins should be prepackaged, to draw simple shapes, circles and arrows. Inkscape is great but is an overkill for a simple editing job.