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Can Gimp Draw Arrows (brushes don't work)?
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(Yesterday, 06:52 AM)dbareis Wrote: ....snip...
What I do is crop, resize, draw text, draw arrows from a to b (text to subject of text).  Everyone seem to recommend brushes, but from my attempts that is not possible, for starters you don't define 'a' & 'b" and can't change the length
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Am I missing something? Or is it not possible to draw arrows (a modified straight line with arrow head) in GIMP?

There is a Gimp script that uses a path to define the position of an arrow.

A very long thread but the script is here: https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Arrow-...9#pid12419

Download the zip, unzip and there are two files, use the arrow_v3.scm for Gimp 3.0 
That goes in your User profile scripts folder  C:\Users\"yourname"\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\3.0\scripts
Registers in the Tools menu  Looks like this.

   

Edit: If you are anotating text then you might want to keep all the arrows in their own layer. Once the arrow parameters are set (there is a Save / Load ) an arrow will repeat using Filters -> Repeat Last (ctrl-F)
A 60 second animation https://i.imgur.com/eHAxwMR.mp4
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RE: Can Gimp Draw Arrows (brushes don't work)? - by rich2005 - Yesterday, 07:57 AM

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