07-13-2023, 05:17 PM
Hi all, I'm looking to put a "scale" on an image. It's actually a map that I'm cropping a region from. So, I need to be able to draw a straight line on the full size original, between two known points, and divide that into a specific number of subdivisions (e.g. miles, but more likely minutes of lat/long in my situation).
Ideally, the result would put "tick marks", or "notches" along the line, in the manner of a graph scale, but as long as the points are identifiable I could do that by hand.
After all that, I would then crop the image, leaving some part of the line in the crop to act as the new scale.
I found this thread:
https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-ofn-br...es-on-path
which I think I could make work, but I suspect it's unnecessarily complex, since the target of "equal division" is an arbitrary path. I'm hoping there's a better/simpler/faster approach for the straight line situation?
Any pointers?
TIA,
Toby
Ideally, the result would put "tick marks", or "notches" along the line, in the manner of a graph scale, but as long as the points are identifiable I could do that by hand.
After all that, I would then crop the image, leaving some part of the line in the crop to act as the new scale.
I found this thread:
https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-ofn-br...es-on-path
which I think I could make work, but I suspect it's unnecessarily complex, since the target of "equal division" is an arbitrary path. I'm hoping there's a better/simpler/faster approach for the straight line situation?
Any pointers?
TIA,
Toby