[GLLUG] postscript document

[Sean O'Malley]

When I used to work for the state, I used to draw those and pie-chart
slices out in Freehand in about 5 minutes. Im not sure what linux vector
programs there are now.  5 years ago there weren't any worth even
downloading.

You need something with an align and distribute evenly function at a
minimum. 'group', duplicate objects, layers and rotate x degrees functions
are also extremely helpful. :)








On Tue, 29 May 2007, Julie Code wrote:

> Thanks Charles, I didn't quite realize that.  I want to make a correction in
> my typing in the last message.  it was actually \scalebox insead of \scale.
> But anyways, in my math book that I am writing, I am writing about Basic
> Math to start off with..... I took pictures of a miniature abacus, they look
> really good because the chinese abacus that I am using is so small that it
> makes good pictures.  But now I am trying to use base ten blocks.... I
> bought some stamps that have base ten blocks on them from the teacher's
> store.... and stamping the blocks on cardstock... and then take pictures of
> them... Does anyone else know of a better idea that I could use base ten
> blocks? They are a lot of things to manipulate with them, just as they are
> manipulatives so there will be a lot of moving the blocks around etc.  But
> if anyone has a better idea, like jpeg images online or something. I just
> wonder how other people do their work with the blocks in their books because
> there is a lot of manipulating the images.  As you can see, I am a beginner
> at writing books! =)
>
> Julie
>
> >From: Charles Ulrich <charles at idealso.com>
> >To: linux-user at egr.msu.edu
> >Subject: Re: [GLLUG] postscript document
> >Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 17:02:09 -0400
> >
> >On Tuesday 29 May 2007 00:18, Julie Code wrote:
> > > So sorry for posting off topic but if anyone
> > > has any idea if they could fix my problem, let me know.
> >
> >I don't have a solution (not too familiar with LaTeX), but I just wanted
> >to mention that your request is actually very on-topic. :) We welcome
> >any sort of discussion or questions regarding or relating to open
> >source software in general. (And we generally tolerate quite a lot that
> >isn't.)
> >
> >--
> >Charles Ulrich
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