Doug There are a couple of scripts that provide this behaviour: http://registry.gimp.org/node/22910 Or http://registry.gimp.org/node/18821 which also needs http://registry.gimp.org/node/18820 I find the first to be the simplest. -Rob A> On 6/19/10, doug p. <forums@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I had scanned a bunch of small odd shapped images and most of them I > couldn't > get rotated exactly right. I had to use photoshop and they have a feature > where I can draw a straight line, and say to rotate the image to that line. > It > was called Rotate to Arbitrary. I see a similiar feature in Gimp where I can > rotate the image, but I can't have it rotate to a line. The reason this is > helpful is because I can choose a line of text or a border edge because I > wasn't able to straighten out the images just by eyeballing them. I was > within > one degree, but that wasn't good enough for because over 12 inches, you can > see that the text is a little crooked. rotating the image -1 degree the > other > way over corrects the image in the opposite direction, so it is best if the > computer can rotate it. How can I request this feature to be added. It seems > very useful for images that aren't straight and allows people to just > arbitrarily throw images on the scanner, and then orient them up perfectly.. > > -- > doug p. (via www.gimpusers.com) > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-developer mailing list > Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer > _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
