png editing suggestion

[Luigi Toscano]

On Thursday, 1 February 2018 01:58:30 CET Jack wrote:
> On 2018.01.31 19:40, Luigi Toscano wrote:
> > Jack ha scritto:
> >> Can someone recommend a relatively simple application for minor
> >> editing of png files for a docbook manual?  At minimum, I need to
> >> crop some images.  Being able to overlay small amounts of text is
> >> also useful.  I know I can use GIMP for this, but it seems to take
> >> me lots of time to relearn it every time I need to do something
> >> simple.
> > 
> > Kolourpaint should do the job.
> 
> Thanks.  I also found pinta (although not a KDE app)
> 
> >> The cause here is that Spectacle has captured a number of
> >> screenshots (active window) with some type of border around the
> >> windows, which I think should be removed before using.  (This is
> >> something outside the regular  window border.)  Any hints on why
> >> spectacle might be acting up would also be welcome, but  I'll raise
> >> that as a separate issue at a later time.
> > 
> > Maybe that's the space for the shadows, I see it too.
> 
> It shows up as a white and gray checkerboard, which I seem to recall
> seeing as the background of some icons, and I wonder if it is meant to
> specify transaprent?

Yes, it's the basically standard way to specify the "transparent" color.


> 
> One of my problems is that if I tell spectacle to capture the window
> under cursor, when I click "Take a New Screenshot" the spectacle window
> disappears and never comes back, no matter what I click and whether I
> have a time delay or use "On Click."  
I can't reproduce this on Fedora 27 (Spectacle 17.12.1).

> I have to kill the spectacle
> process.  So, I'm using Active Window, which works, but with the extra
> border.  Has anyone else seen this?  Is there any troubleshooting I
> might do - or should I report it as a bug?

Do you use the last version?

-- 
Luigi