Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

  • Congratulations TouchToneTommy on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

GIMP and Image Maps

Status
Not open for further replies.

tsdragon

Programmer
Dec 18, 2000
5,133
US
If you have any thoughts about using the Image Map tool in GIMP to create an image map, my advice is: don't bother. It's FULL OF BUGS! I created ONE area for an image (admittedly with quite a few points), saved it, and when I reopened it the area was totally messed up! Points were moved to strange locations, lines overlapped. It's also extremely cumbersome and slow to use. Clicking on a line to add a point is practically impossible (it took me over 20 tries one time to click the line just right). In sum, it's a total waste of time.

If you need to create an image map use MapEdit by Boutell Software ( It's easy to use, works very well, and is shareware. You get 30 days or 100 saves on the trial version, and registration is only $10. I managed to create an image map of the US with 10 regions (some with MANY points) in just a few minutes, and didn't have the slightest bit of trouble with it. The image map created was a cinch to put into my web page, and works perfectly. (I am not in any way affiliated with the software or its author, I just like the program.)

Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard. [dragon]
 
That's a shame,
I've never tried the Image Map tool in Gimp.
Have you emailed the authors?
With Gimp being such a well respected package I would guess that they would like to know about things like that.



Trojan.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top