Re: [Gimp-user] new Gimp book, about time

2006-02-15 Thread John R. Culleton
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 12:32, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > Colin Brace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Though I realize there are many useful tutorials around > > I hope you are also aware of the GIMP user manual which is hosted at > http://docs.gimp.org/. > > > Sven > _

Re: [Gimp-user] new Gimp book, about time

2006-02-15 Thread John R. Culleton
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 12:11, Colin Brace wrote: > In the process of learning Gimp (ongoing project), I've wondered about > the absence of books dedicated to it, at least since 2001 or > thereabouts. I am therefore intrigued to (finally) see a new title, > now preannounced on Amazon.com: > >

Re: [Gimp-user] One stupid thing

2006-02-10 Thread John R. Culleton
On Friday 10 February 2006 04:46 pm, Michael Schumacher wrote: > John R. Culleton wrote: > > Not at all. I was noting that on two different flavors of linux > > it is necessary to download and install material beyond that > > contained in the Gimp download in order to g

Re: [Gimp-user] One stupid thing

2006-02-10 Thread John R. Culleton
On Thursday 09 February 2006 07:08 pm, Michael Schumacher wrote: > John R. Culleton wrote: > > Heh. I set up Debian sarge, downloaded Gimp 2.3.8? and tried to > > compile. Now I am back to the missing XML::Parser problem again. > > Did you ignore my first mail in this thread?

Re: [Gimp-user] One stupid thing

2006-02-09 Thread John R. Culleton
On Saturday 04 February 2006 08:28 pm, John R. Culleton wrote: > On Friday 03 February 2006 08:37 pm, Carol Spears wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 07:58:24PM -0500, John R. Culleton wrote: > > > On Friday 03 February 2006 02:57 pm, Carol Spears wrote: > > > > >

Re: [Gimp-user] doing with the gimp what www.scanR.com does

2006-02-06 Thread John R. Culleton
On Monday 06 February 2006 01:10 am, peer miaskowski wrote: > Hi list! > > Is it possible to do with the gimp (automatically?) what www.scanR.com does? On Linux systems Xsane, a scanner program, is a useful plugin. -- John Culleton Books with answers to marketing and publishing questions: http:

Re: [Gimp-user] One stupid thing

2006-02-04 Thread John R. Culleton
On Friday 03 February 2006 08:37 pm, Carol Spears wrote: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 07:58:24PM -0500, John R. Culleton wrote: > > On Friday 03 February 2006 02:57 pm, Carol Spears wrote: > > > > Now I have a problem with GLIB. Versions up thorugh gimp 2.3.3 > > don&#x

Re: [Gimp-user] One stupid thing

2006-02-04 Thread John R. Culleton
On Saturday 04 February 2006 08:26 am, John R. Culleton wrote: > BTW > there is a good guide to using Gimp in DTP workflow buried in the > online documentation of Scribus, a program that works well with > Gimp. When I identify the particular html file I will post it. It is named Toolb

Re: [Gimp-user] One stupid thing

2006-02-04 Thread John R. Culleton
On Friday 03 February 2006 10:23 pm, Carol Spears wrote: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 05:53:03PM -0800, Tom Williams wrote: > > I'm also a Slackware user and have the latest glib and gtk+ libraries > > installed. Feel free to e-mail me if you need help getting everything > > straightened out. I've h

Re: [Gimp-user] One stupid thing

2006-02-03 Thread John R. Culleton
On Friday 03 February 2006 02:57 pm, Carol Spears wrote: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 09:34:10AM -0500, John R. Culleton wrote: > > I cannot compile the unstable Gimp because of one stupid thing. > > the ./configure always blows up

[Gimp-user] One stupid thing

2006-02-03 Thread John R. Culleton
I cannot compile the unstable Gimp because of one stupid thing. the ./configure always blows up on this message: checking for perl... /usr/local/bin/perl checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

Re: [Gimp-user] Howto write 8 Bit per pixel BMP files with gimp

2006-01-29 Thread John R. Culleton
On Thursday 21 July 2005 10:26 am, Rainer Lehrig wrote: > I have a software, that only works on Microsoft BMP files > with 8 bits per pixel and 256 colour lookup table. > > How can I create such files with gimp. > > I already tried "Indexed" but without success. > > Best regards: > Rainer What is

[Gimp-user] Color model for png.

2006-01-26 Thread John R. Culleton
From the depths of my ignorance: Is the color model for png: 1. RGB 2. CMYK 3. Neither 4. Either I am thinking about creating things in Gimp then importing them to Scribus which can handle CMYK, use CMS profiles and so on. -- John Culleton ___ Gimp

[Gimp-user] Error on CVS configure and make.

2006-01-18 Thread John R. Culleton
When I attempt to update my 2.3 version using cvs the cvs prt runs OK but hten I get this error message on ./configure and later on make: checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool I have Slack 10.1. I also have Active-X Perl. There are man pa

[Gimp-user] the worth1000.com collection.

2006-01-18 Thread John R. Culleton
A friend just send me some shots apparently from the worth1000.com site, created in Photoshop, that are very very funny. I can't find the same shots on the site but they have thousands out there it seems. For example one shows a quarter horse at full gallop. Not a quarter-horse, a 1/4 horse, just

[Gimp-user] Converting files to Hexachrome

2006-01-06 Thread John R. Culleton
Hexachrome is the six color format used on some high end printing. There are programs published by Pantone to convert RGB to Hexachrome. My question: other than the Pantone programs, how can one get to Hexachrome format without loss of gamut? Obviously Gimp does not produce it natively so I am lo

Re: [Gimp-user] Non printable colors

2005-11-15 Thread John R. Culleton
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 05:21 pm, Gilles Maltais wrote: > Is there a function in GIMP that shows which colors are printable and > which are not ? > > If there is no such feature, where could I find info on this topic ? > > Thanks ! > > Gilles Maltais While the gamut of CMYK is smaller than the

[Gimp-user] CVS Gimp and XML:: Parser

2005-07-27 Thread John R. Culleton
The latest update of the Gimp CVS failed on my machine on the ./configure pass because it could not find XML::Parser (a Perl module.) I recently reinstalled Perl from CPAN to satisfy another application. My question is this: is XML::Parser a new requirement for Gimp or is it something that has bee

[Gimp-user] finding/identifying python filters.

2005-06-29 Thread John R. Culleton
I am working with unstable CVS (2.3.2) and am just trying things out. I can find plugins on my disk that have the suffix .py which means of course that they are written in python. But often they have identical names and functions as older script-fu products. So how to I specify the python plug in a

Re: Bleeding edge, WAS [Gimp-user] pygtk and 2.3.1

2005-06-29 Thread John R. Culleton
On Wednesday 29 June 2005 02:41 pm, John R. Culleton wrote: upgraded to > version 32.1 That gave problems with both cvs downloads. > > Now I have upgraded to 33 (which comes with the 2.3.1 gimp > tarball BTW) and now stable will compile and install without > complaint. > > I

Re: Bleeding edge, WAS [Gimp-user] pygtk and 2.3.1

2005-06-29 Thread John R. Culleton
On Wednesday 29 June 2005 03:59 pm, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris wrote: > On Wednesday 29 June 2005 08:40, John R. Culleton wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 June 2005 08:52 am, John R. Culleton wrote: > > > thought it was time to rename the thread since I have gone past > > &

Re: Bleeding edge, WAS [Gimp-user] pygtk and 2.3.1

2005-06-29 Thread John R. Culleton
On Wednesday 29 June 2005 08:52 am, John R. Culleton wrote: > thought it was time to rename the thread since I have gone past > the problems with pygtk. > > If anything else comes up of interest I will report back. It seems that the error reported earlier prevented final compilat

Re: Bleeding edge, WAS [Gimp-user] pygtk and 2.3.1

2005-06-29 Thread John R. Culleton
On Wednesday 29 June 2005 01:14 pm, Simon Budig wrote: > John R. Culleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Earlier in my journey autogen.sh had complained about an > > obsolete intltool so I installed version 32 of that package. > > Did you rerun autogen.sh after updating int

Re: Bleeding edge, WAS [Gimp-user] pygtk and 2.3.1

2005-06-29 Thread John R. Culleton
thought it was time to rename the thread since I have gone past the problems with pygtk. I had a successful cvs/compile/install cycle on Gimp stable. Then I thought I would try Gimp unstable, or bleeding edge. I followed the instructions for CVS of Gimp stable with one modification (see below) I

Re: [Gimp-user] pygtk and 2.3.1

2005-06-28 Thread John R. Culleton
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 10:41 pm, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > "John R. Culleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am not expert in CVS (translation, I just printed out the > > manual this morning) but it seems that it is command line driven. > > Do I s

Re: [Gimp-user] pygtk and 2.3.1

2005-06-28 Thread John R. Culleton
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 07:28 pm, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > "John R. Culleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > With other packages there is an overnight snapshot of the CVS, > > bundled as tarball. Does such a facility exist for Gimp? Where? > > Th

Re: [Gimp-user] pygtk and 2.3.1

2005-06-28 Thread John R. Culleton
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 04:01 pm, Manish Singh wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 10:46:12AM +0000, John R. Culleton wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 June 2005 10:13 am, John R. Culleton wrote: > > > On Tuesday 14 June 2005 08:42 pm, Carol Spears wrote: > > > > mr. culleton,

Re: [Gimp-user] pygtk and 2.3.1

2005-06-28 Thread John R. Culleton
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 10:13 am, John R. Culleton wrote: > On Tuesday 14 June 2005 08:42 pm, Carol Spears wrote: > > mr. culleton, i am going to respectfully ask the reason that after all > > of this time you are not running a cvs version of gimp? you seem > > overdue for

Re: [Gimp-user] pygtk and 2.3.1

2005-06-28 Thread John R. Culleton
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 08:42 pm, Carol Spears wrote: > > mr. culleton, i am going to respectfully ask the reason that after all > of this time you are not running a cvs version of gimp? you seem > overdue for this. > With other packages there is an overnight snapshot of the CVS, bundled as tarba

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp doesn't recognize my usb scanner

2005-06-16 Thread John R. Culleton
On Thursday 16 June 2005 06:35 pm, GRONDIN Bertrand wrote: > Hi ! > > After compiling and installing GIMP, the program doesn't recognize my > USB SCANNER. But Linux does it. > > Can you help me ? > > Thanks Gimp doesn't do scanning. Instead it calls on another program (usually xsane) to do that cho

Re: [Gimp-user] pygtk and 2.3.1

2005-06-14 Thread John R. Culleton
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 08:24 pm, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris wrote: >> > If you are in ahurry, however, you cvan just pass --disable-python to > the ./configure script, and live a little more withou the python > plug-ins. > > JS > -><- > ___ Well that

[Gimp-user] pygtk and 2.3.1

2005-06-14 Thread John R. Culleton
Am running 2.3.0 without incident. I downloaded 2.3.1 and attempted to configure. I got a message about pygtk-2.0 missing. What is this, is it essential and where can I find it? Not a huge deal. 2.3.0 is OK. -- John Culleton The answers to all your publishing questions are found in the exce

Re: [Gimp-user] All about fonts.

2005-05-28 Thread John R. Culleton
On Saturday 28 May 2005 12:32 am, Gezim Hoxha wrote: > On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 16:00 +0000, John R. Culleton wrote: > > A long while back I had a selection of fonts available for Gimp. > > I had instructions for installing the fonts and making them > > work. I recall there w

[Gimp-user] All about fonts.

2005-05-27 Thread John R. Culleton
A long while back I had a selection of fonts available for Gimp. I had instructions for installing the fonts and making them work. I recall there was a directory in X11 somewhere that was involved. When you used the text function a list appeared from which you could select a typeface and size. Now

[Gimp-user] What format is an MSwindows icon in?

2005-05-17 Thread John R. Culleton
I am familiar with jpeg, png, tiff, eps and so on image formats. But what format is an MSWindows desktop icon in? Is it one of the well-known formats or is it a format all its own? I know the suffix is .ico and it is in RGB color model. -- John Culleton

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