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

["J. Leslie Turriff" <jlturriff mail com>]

        If you want to load output from a scanner or a camera into Gimp, use File -> 
Create...

On Friday 27 November 2015 11:42:28 petershea1 comcast net wrote:
> I've just finished hand drawing about fifty simple, small (8.5 X 11) maps
> in a two-month period. I'm hoping for an easier way, without going broke or
> making my head explode.
>
> 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??
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
>
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