Re: [Gimp-user] Elementary question for an old mapmaker

[Jernej Simončič <jernej|s-ng eternallybored org>]

On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 17:42:28 +0000 (UTC), petershea1 comcast net wrote:

> I've read a summary of the GIMP drawing program, but it is not clear to me, if you can import images such 
> as scans, or Google Earth. Google maps, etc. Can you import an image and trace from it, or does one only 
> draw original subjects? I assume it has wide typographic ability for font and sizes?? 

GIMP is primarily a bitmap editor - you'll probably find Inkscape
<http://www.inkscape.org/> better suited for tracing.

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