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Questions tagged [drawing]

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How to draw boxes and tables in plain text

In many plain text documents, box drawing characters are used to draw these boxes in figures and tables. Such examples (from RFC 5766) are shown below. Is there a better way to draw this (for instance, a Unix command line tool), other than using the…
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How do you draw freehand (like a pencil tool) in LibreOffice Draw?

How do you draw freehand in LibreOffice Draw? Is there a "pencil tool"? I can see on the left that there's a button to change the "Line Color" and it looks like a pencil, but clicking this doesn't seem to let me draw anything.
Aaron Franke
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Learning to draw technical illustrations in inkscape?

I am looking for good resources (books, tutorials, courses, etc.) on learning to draw technical illustrations in Inkscape? I am specifically looking for resources aimed at beginners in both drawing and Inkscape, if that is possible. :) I would…
Bjarke Freund-Hansen
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Export Krita Layers to Single Images

When I have multiple layers in Krita, how can I export each layer as an individual image?
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How can I create a new image with transparent background in Paint.NET?

I would like to do some basic graphics using Paint.NET. I would like to start with a transparent background and draw on top of it, but I can't find any settings on how to do that. I only get a new image with a white background. How do I start…
Jonas
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Software for drawing basic geometry

I'm looking for some software that I can use to draw simple geometric things like this: Or even better: Does anyone know any software capable of drawing these things easily? I'm particularly interested in anything that works on Linux.
Andrea Ambu
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How do I stroke a path in GIMP (or, just draw a line)?

I want to just draw a simple line in GIMP. The usual method, which I'm sure worked before, is to use a path then stroke it. I selected the path tool, then clicked 2 points to make a straight line between them. Then I clicked the "Stroke path" button…
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Please recommend a tool to draw structs / classes and pointers

Possible Duplicate: Application to help build diagrams I know the paper and a pen answer, but I truly need a PC solution. I made the example below by Word, so please recommend others more suitable and convenient. By suitable and convenient, I…
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Word 2013 PDF - The export failed due to an unexpected error

Like this post for Word 2007, we can't save our Word 2013 document to PDF and simply receive a generic error: Is there any way to troubleshoot this error? Playing around with the conversion options hasn't helped, although I was able to narrow-down…
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Best drawing / illustration software for Windows?

Any good Windows XP software for drawing or illustration using a Wacom tablet for example?
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Drawio-desktop disable autosave?

Is there a way to disable autosave in the configuration? similar to other configuration parameters from the Menu, Extras > Configuration... ? I tried following but didn't worked out: { "autosave": 0 } The reason behind it is, I'm quite often open…
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Good Sketching software

Any good Sketching softwares preferably open source freeware? I basically need it for quickly putting my ideas down into the pc similar with what I would do If I had a pen and a book. Except that here I would be using a mouse.
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Corel Draw alternatives

Corel Draw is a really good vector graphics application but its price is a 'bit' high. Could you recommend me some alternatives? I only know InkScape from out of the blue.. and it's a bit behind Corel Draw. :) Commercial alternatives are also 100%…
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Any good Pixel Graphics Editors on Mac OS X?

I'm looking for a graphics editor suited for Pixel Editing. On Windows there is Graphics Gale or Pro Motion, but the only thing I found on Mac OS X that comes close ceased development 4 years ago - Pixen. What I like is a) support for layers, b) the…
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Why can you draw with windows on Windows XP?

I don't really know if this is the right place to ask this, but why can you sometimes draw with windows on Windows XP, and what causes it? You know when your machine lags, and all of a sudden, when you move a window, it leaves behind a trail? that's…
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