On Tuesday, 10 November 2020 12:02:03 UTC, T i m wrote:
On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 18:58:32 -0800 (PST), tabbypurr wrote:
On Monday, 9 November 2020 10:46:13 UTC, T i m wrote:
On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 02:43:46 -0800 (PST), Rob Graham
wrote:

A friend needs some assistance on a 12v wiring task. I was going to do it for him, but have really locked myself down by suffering a slipped disc.

So I said I would draw it out or him, but cannot find a computer package that will allow me to draw coloured wires between connectors, and I don't have anything that will do brown or yellow if I was to it do it by hand.

Anyone got a suggestion ?


MS Paint (assuming Windows)?

Cheers, T i m

Gimp is vastly better imho

But vastly more complicated.;-(

yup. You'd only need a small subset of its functions though


I've installed it a few times (for me and others looking for a
Photoshop replacement) and given it a try but is just *way* too
complicated for someone not experienced with it (or Photoshop etc, or
at least not straight away.

Loads of the 'how do I do that' and 'where did that go' moments.

You do need to read a tutorial to get going. From then on it's very powerful & has an ok UI.


MS Paint is much much simpler meaning you can generally get going
pretty quickly and has the invaluable 'Undo' button if you make a
mistake.

'Of course' that also means it's limited but it's better to be able to
do something than not do anything because it's overwhelming.

If I ever need to 'knock up' a simple diagram (a picture speaks 1000
words etc) then I generally use Paint, and you can even call it up
from Irfanview (well I can here on XP anyway), good for annotating
pictures etc. No substituted for a dedicated diagram type app of
course, especially one with a good symbol library.

Cheers, T i m

I've used gimp a lot for word processing. Never designed for it, or anything even close to it, but nothing else I've found does the features required or does it as easily.


NT