Precisely Positioning thngs . X/Y Coordinates?

[Brian Sansone]

Well I though I was entering intermediate skill level...

I'm trying to make a flyer for print. I'm trying to get things perfectly positioned; like you can do in desktop publishing software.

I havnt been able to find any coordinate settings, besides setting all the units to inches.

Even just the guides positioning guides is over my head.  I did find where you can insert guides by a percentage or pixel count,  but I have no idea how I could convert pixels/% to inches.

I was trying to make a .25" border around the flyer, and I realized there was more to it than something like Scribus.

I'm a bit surprised X/Y coordinates, and positioning tools are not front and center.

[rich2005]

Well, Gimp is a raster editor so the base unit is a pixel.  You might be using a stock template @ 300 pixels-per-inch (ppi) and 0.25 in is 75 pix but what if the setup is 250 ppi then 0.25" is 67.5 out by half-a-pixel.

You can set up a grid on a per image basis in various real world units, this one in 0.5" intervals.

   

Attached is a guides plugin where you can again set real worlds units. It might/might-not work with MacOS it will work with Windows. Unzip, put in your plugins folder.