Thank you for all your replies. I'll try combining different software to reach the scope. Editing in Gimp, vector on inkscape, pubblications and text on scribus. I'll also take a look at Draw.
2012/11/27 <[email protected]> > Send gimp-user-list mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of gimp-user-list digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Gimp 2.8 and Windows 8 (zenashaker) > 2. Re: exporting to psd format issue (Guiu Rocafort) > 3. Gimp 2.8 and Windows 8 (devvv) > 4. Text border (Fabio Colella) > 5. Re: Text border (Alexandre Prokoudine) > 6. Re: Text border (Owen) > 7. Re: Text border (Ofnuts) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:01:27 +0100 > From: zenashaker <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.8 and Windows 8 > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Ok I just got this computer with windows 8! > I've downloaded GIMP 3 times (2 different sources) and each time I click > open > (there is no run option) my mouse turns into the little loading symbol and > then > nothing happens. It shows up in task manager as running, but nothing comes > up at > all. Even when I end task and try to delete the file it doesn't work. > Help I really need to use GIMP :( > > -- > zenashaker (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:45:13 +0100 > From: Guiu Rocafort <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] exporting to psd format issue > Message-ID: > <CAJRc=kaj+18KwiZwg8fq9=e36mE3pX7P= > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > I have took a look at the photoshop blend modes and there are a "color > burn" and a "linear burn" blend mode. I'm not sure if one of these are > equivalent. > > The "grain-extract" and the "grain-merge" doesn't seem to have any > equivalent in photoshop. > > > http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-77eba.html#WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-77e9a > > If one of the burn blend modes is equivalent to the one in gimp it > should be easy to add support in the psd-export plugin. > The grain-extract and grain-merge would require more work i guess.. > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Simon Budig <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > samlive ([email protected]) wrote: > > > The problem is the costumer want the project in psd format to edit it > with > > > photoshop so I tried an example to chick if it will export it or not. > > > I designed an example and export it to psd, And I've got error message > that > > > Blendmodes can't be exported and here is the picture of the error > message > > > http://img805.imageshack.us/img805/7743/gimp28issue.jpg > > > I've opened the image in photoshop and and I found all layers reset on > Normal > > > Mode. > > > So is there any solution for my problem? > > > > Well - apart from the obvious answers (get your customers to use gimp, > > ask adobe to support the XCF file format) it probably needs changes to > > the gimp code. > > > > Does photoshop actually support the "burn"/"grain-extract"/"grain-merge" > > layer modes? I have no idea, but if it does the PSD plugin needs to be > > changed to support these. > > > > Bye, > > Simon > > -- > > [email protected] http://simon.budig.de/ > > _______________________________________________ > > gimp-user-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > > > > > -- > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:32:23 +0100 > From: devvv <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.8 and Windows 8 > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > >Ok I just got this computer with windows 8! > >I've downloaded GIMP 3 times (2 different sources) and each time I > >click open (there is no run option) my mouse turns into the little > >loading symbol and then nothing happens. It shows up in task manager > >as running, but nothing comes up at all. Even when I end task and try > >to delete the file it doesn't work. > >Help I really need to use GIMP :( > > I just tried it on Windows 8 and it works very fine for me. When you're > launching it for the first time it takes pretty long to start up. Did you > just > give it some time before killing the task? Try to delete the user folder > ".gimp-2.8" of GIMP (found in c:\Users\<yourusername>\.gimp-2.8 and launch > it > again. > > -- > devvv (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:05:43 +0100 > From: Fabio Colella <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Gimp-user] Text border > Message-ID: > < > canmnzvj0so91bjnjkvkxw_4o_dkeamckxoxj6ft1c+qe50s...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hello, I create adverts with Gimp for my magazine www.sardegnaannunci.com. > A feature that I need would be to create border around text. > I reach this target with multiple shade effects or selecing the text using > selection by color, then selection->border and the filling it with color on > a second level under the text (if I do this in the same level I loose > antialias on the text). The problem is that when I want to change the text > I have to delete the levels for this, edit the text and then create the > effect again. Isn't possible to add a feature or a plugin with wich I can > edit the text and the effect together? Or better, a real editor with border > an shadow effects? > Like the one there's on Libre Office. > > -- > Cordiali saluti, > Fabio Colella > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list/attachments/20121126/159d7b7e/attachment.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:46:06 +0400 > From: Alexandre Prokoudine <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Text border > Message-ID: > <CAFjkzc1cL8XB= > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Fabio Colella > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, I create adverts with Gimp for my magazine > www.sardegnaannunci.com . > > A feature that I need would be to create border around text. > > I reach this target with multiple shade effects or selecing the text > using > > selection by color, then selection->border and the filling it with color > on > > a second level under the text (if I do this in the same level I loose > > antialias on the text). The problem is that when I want to change the > text I > > have to delete the levels for this, edit the text and then create the > effect > > again. Isn't possible to add a feature or a plugin with wich I can edit > the > > text and the effect together? Or better, a real editor with border an > shadow > > effects? > > It's in the plans, but don't expect it any time soon. > > In the mean time I suggest you try Inkscape or Scribus and play with > stroke color and width. > > Alexandre Prokoudine > http://libregraphicsworld.org > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:04:52 +1100 > From: "Owen" <[email protected]> > To: "Fabio Colella" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Text border > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > > > > Hello, I create adverts with Gimp for my magazine > > www.sardegnaannunci.com . > > A feature that I need would be to create border around text. > > I reach this target with multiple shade effects or selecing the text > > using > > selection by color, then selection->border and the filling it with > > > > It might be better to do this by selecting the text layer and then in > the layers dialog, Alpha to selection > > > > > color on > > a second level under the text (if I do this in the same level I loose > > antialias on the text). The problem is that when I want to change the > > text > > > You might be better off duplicating the text layer (maybe several > times) and adjusting the text to a selection of sizes for each layer. > Switch the visibility of the layers on and off as you try things out. > > > > > > I have to delete the levels for this, edit the text and then create > > the > > effect again. Isn't possible to add a feature or a plugin with wich I > > can > > edit the text and the effect together? Or better, a real editor with > > border > > an shadow effects? > > Like the one there's on Libre Office. > > > > > -- > Owen > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:23:25 +0100 > From: Ofnuts <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Text border > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" > > On 11/26/2012 02:05 PM, Fabio Colella wrote: > > Hello, I create adverts with Gimp for my magazine > > www.sardegnaannunci.com <http://www.sardegnaannunci.com> . > > A feature that I need would be to create border around text. > > I reach this target with multiple shade effects or selecing the text > > using selection by color, then selection->border and the filling it > > with color on a second level under the text (if I do this in the same > > level I loose antialias on the text). > > Better method for a very clean result: create a "Path" for the text > (right click on text layer, + "Text to path"), then "Edit/Stroke path" > with a sufficiently wide line. > > > The problem is that when I want to change the text I have to delete > > the levels for this, edit the text and then create the effect again. > > Isn't possible to add a feature or a plugin with wich I can edit the > > text and the effect together? Or better, a real editor with border an > > shadow effects? > > Like the one there's on Libre Office. > > Not right now, but there is an underlying structure change in Gimp that > will make this built-in in the future (it's easy to do in LO because the > set of possible transforms is limited). > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list/attachments/20121127/a9f3127d/attachment.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > > > End of gimp-user-list Digest, Vol 14, Issue 45 > ********************************************** > -- Cordiali saluti, Fabio Colella
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