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Personally I use Inkscape for that stuff, and it excels at it, and then export/import into Gimp. Cumbersome but it works.

• rhizome 8y ago
  Inkscape has scripting as well, so maybe a lot of that cumber can be automated. I've never looked into it, but you can be sure a lot of google results will take the form of "can i automate [x] with inkscape?"
  • opencl 8y ago
    Or you can script GIMP to do it directly. GIMP in fact already includes a script for drawing shapes under Filters->Render->gfig. The UI could stand to be improved but the feature is basically already there.
    • mschaef 8y ago
      And that's been there for quite a while... Sad reality is, people expect more. There's something satisfying about being able to click a 'draw shape' icon on a tool bar and then click and drag to draw the shape on a canvas. That's an expectation that dates back to at least MacPaint in 1984, and it's a huge difference from drawing a shape using a rendering plugin buried under three menu levels.
    • rhizome 8y ago
      Even better!