Fri Nov 12, 2021 3:32 am
ofnuts wrote:Hmm. So instead of few steps using the UI, one has to type arcane commands that can backfire. And this is "simpler"?
Fri Nov 12, 2021 10:00 am
Fri Nov 12, 2021 3:06 pm
PixLab wrote:
I cannot agree more, this sounds extremely daunting and exhausting just for a screenshot.
AlSchemist wrote:
- Click the Rectangle Select Tool in the Toolbox
- Select the text to be highlighted in the image
- Click slowly twice the Gimp menu "Highlight" at the right of the "Help" menu
Fri Nov 12, 2021 6:39 pm
Sat Nov 13, 2021 2:07 am
AlSchemist wrote:PixLab wrote:
I cannot agree more, this sounds extremely daunting and exhausting just for a screenshot.
PixLab, it's not even "just for a screenshot"
but for highlighting text with a yellow background, aka annotation.
Into the bargain, the subject is "Using Gimp" but not an external tool such as GreenShot.
AlSchemist wrote:However, according to proof by contradiction,
AlSchemist will supply the usage with the external tool GreenShot quoted by IMZvonko for comparison.
AlSchemist wrote:Let us suppose that "to simplify" the screen capture or any image is already loaded inside Gimp.
- In Gimp, press Ctrl+C to copy the picture in the clipboard
- Click the GreenShot's green icon in the taskbar
- Click the contextual menu "Open image from clipboard"
- In Greenshot, select the Highlight (H) tool in the left margin
- Draw a rectangle around the wished text: it is not possible to make rounded corners.
- Press Shift+Ctrl+C to export the highlighted image in the clipboard
- Come back into Gimp and press Ctrl+V to paste the highlighted image from the clipboard
- Click outside the image to merge the "Floating Selection (Pasted Layer)"
AlSchemist wrote:Alternatively GreenShot would be able to run Gimp but the loading of Gimp would be too slow.
With the Script-Fu HighlightText.scm script in Gimp:
- Click the Rectangle Select Tool in the Toolbox
AlSchemist wrote:Select the text to be highlighted in the image
AlSchemist wrote:Click slowly twice the Gimp menu "Highlight" at the right of the "Help" menu
AlSchemist wrote: What was missing in the AlSchemist's very long post is the [spoiler]...[/spoiler] tag to hide the waffles.
HighlightText.scm is for beginners who wish to learn not Python but gimpy ana--thema--tized Scheme of course without changing the settings of the
Sat Nov 13, 2021 9:54 am
; Other itens are repetitive for us, so drop it.
(set! lis (drop lis 9))
; Quick (and dirty?) implementation of the drop function of SRFI 1 extensions to Scheme,
; not implemented in TinyScheme (the interpreter used by Gimp).
; It drops n elements of the list and returns the rest.