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Precisely Positioning thngs . X/Y Coordinates? - Brian Sansone - 05-13-2024
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.
RE: Precisely Positioning thngs . X/Y Coordinates? - rich2005 - 05-13-2024
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.
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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.