Re: [Gimp-user] Windows XP - Service Pack?
On Monday, January 31, 2011 12:19:44 pm Jernej Simončič did opine: On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:24:37 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: Though giving M$ access is the definition of compromised as far as I am concerned. What kind of access, and what do you mean by phone home? If you're that paranoid about Windows Update, you can always prevent the service from running (and it's easy to shut up the notification centre as well). Oh oh, he's been drinking the koolaid. What we FOSS people are objecting to is the WGA that gets installed with SP2 I believe it was, and this thing does phone home on every reboot to check if its a legally purchased and registered copy, AND that it is running on the same hardware it was originally installed on. Change a hard drive because it went face down in the pool, and you have to buy _another_ copy of windows. And if someone publishes a way to defeat this feature, they find a DMCA take down notice from M$ the next day. And windows people wonder why us Linux folks hate windows. We don't hate windows per sei, but we don't trust it either. We aren't pirates, but I have been known to lose my cool when, in trying to rescue a company windows box, some damned worm has renamed a centrally needed windows dll and all I wanted was a clean copy of it. But I was a pirate, despite having all the original paperwork and serial numbers to prove I had a legal copy of NT-3.51, I had to buy another copy to get that file. Microsoft has well earned the enmity of millions of its users, users who do not understand there are alternatives available. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz Sendmail may be safely run set-user-id to root. -- Eric Allman, Sendmail Installation Guide ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Windows XP - Service Pack?
On Monday, January 31, 2011 01:55:20 pm Jernej Simončič did opine: On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:39:06 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Oh oh, he's been drinking the koolaid. What we FOSS people are objecting to is the WGA that gets installed with SP2 I believe it was, and this thing does phone home on every reboot to check if its a legally purchased and registered copy, AND that it is running on the same hardware it was originally installed on. WGA is a separate update, and you don't need to install it (while it is among the auto-install updates, you can tell Windows to never install it, and even if you forget that, it will not actually install unless you explicitly agree - it displays a license on next boot, and if you choose Do not agree, and click Next and then Cancel, it won't bother you again). Yup, and some things will never work right again. BTDTBTTS. And that was put in place only after M$ phone lines were tied up for months, from honest people objecting to being screwed. Change a hard drive because it went face down in the pool, and you have to buy _another_ copy of windows. Don't spread lies - I am not lying, and I resent the accusation. That exact scenario I described happened to me. Before the days of cheap long distance, I probably ran the phone bill up $200 arguing with them. Because that machine wasn't exactly a utility machine but specially programmed for a CBS networking email application that actually got its input data from the VITS/Teletext, and its downtime was costing us about that much a day anyway, I relented and bought another copy of NT-3.51. About 3 months later the drive went face down in the pool, and I made CBS image me another drive and send it out, turned out to be much simpler and a weeks faster way to get it going again. At that point neither of us had a quarter to call someone and see if it was legal. first, if you have an OEM copy of Windows (that was pre-installed by a major computer manufacturer), it'll never deactivate (as long as you keep the motherboard), because it only checks the license in BIOS. If you have a non-branded OEM copy or a retail version, you'll at worst have to call the activation centre (but this is only needed in rare circumstances - usually Windows will just activate automatically, assuming some time has passed since last activation). While it's not legal to move an OEM copy from one computer to another, you can even do that, since there's no real way to tell you did it (unless let WGA install, and you use Windows on both computers). There's no restrictions I wouldn't know today. The last copy of XP I bought on a laptop 5 years ago, and wiped it when I did my 2nd linux install 4 years ago. There are no other windows machines on the premises. And if someone publishes a way to defeat this feature, they find a DMCA take down notice from M$ the next day. Doing a google search would suggest otherwise. Then why are such utilities so hard to find? And I rest my case, I should have just STFU in the first place. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz I must have slipped a disk -- my pack hurts! ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Making Source Code Available
On Friday, July 23, 2010 10:18:21 am wal...@12on14.com did opine: htmlbodyspan style=font-family:Verdana; color:#00; font-size:10pt;divI am writing a user book on GIMP, and in conjunction with making available several excerpts (tutorials), I put GIMP 2.6.8 for windows on my site, along with the users manual, and related Python files./divdivbr/divdivI would like to comply with the GPL (I spent several hours just trying to figure out which license requirements apply to GIMP, and I am still not sure).nbsp; It appears that I must make available the source code. I have no problem with that, but there is no single zipped file of the many hundreds of files for GIMP. Each file must be downloaded then put into a directory . . . recreating the entire directory tree.nbsp; That would take many days, days of not writing, and I would make mistakes--omissions or duplications--with no practical way of knowing correcting them.br/divdivbr/divdivCan someone help? Is there an easier way to comply? Or, am I reading the wrong license terms? /divdivbr/divdivWaltonbr/div/span/body/html Pleased do not post with html enabled. For those of us, who for security reasons, do not enable html rendering in our email agents, all the html coding does is expand the message, sometimes to hundreds of times its size in straight text and makes it very hard to locate your actual message in all that folderol. This is std netiquette. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Marxist Law of Distribution of Wealth: Shortages will be divided equally among the peasants. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Making Source Code Available
On Friday, July 23, 2010 03:49:57 pm wal...@12on14.com did opine: Please accept my apologies. I am new to this forum. walton NP Walton, I really wasn't trying to be a list enforcer, just reminding. 1. Welcome to the list, enjoy. There are some pretty smart folks here. It doesn't seem to be a high traffic list. 2. Now, please ask your question again so that those who can answer it authoritatively, might do so. 3. Please try to keep your replies to the list so that others might be able to search the list archives and possibly find the answer. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life and then come round. -- Lord Alfred Douglas ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] What do you use for lettering?
On Saturday 03 July 2010, Greg A. wrote: Wow, what a cool site Branko. Now I have too freakin many styles to choose from :-) Thanks man, ya done good. Another site that has truetype fonts galore is http://fonts.goldenweb.it/index_file/l/en/d2/True_Type_Fonts/c/e/default.html Some of those are quite nice, they work in OOo, and should be usable by gimp too. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) How do I type for i in *.dvi do xdvi $i done in a GUI? -- Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of interfaces ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] What do you use for lettering?
On Sunday 04 July 2010, Greg A. wrote: I appreciate that Gene, but how do I get GIMP to import or otherwise make these fonts available for use? Thanks much for your help There is a help button at the top right of the main window. Section 5.2 in my copy describes this and will tell you how to add a new font. HTH. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) No one becomes depraved in a moment. -- Decimus Junius Juvenalis ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Mailing list
On Friday 18 June 2010, Murray from McCrae wrote: Please remove from your forum mailing list. I have requested this several times via your web-site but I am still being inundated with e-mails. And did you reply to the email the server sent you requesting a confirmation of the un-subscribe action? All of this must be to/from the email address you subscribed from in the first place. Oh, and this is not a forum, its a mailing list. Thank you. Murray Adams -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too. -- D.J. Hicks ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] HELP! FAST!
On Sunday 23 May 2010, Anna wrote: Some kind of Hex editor I would guess. Johnny Rosenberg I'm totally doomed xD Well thanks for the help anyways^^ To help prevent that sort of thing in the future, please give the filesystem time to flush everything to disk before hitting the power switch. Modern operating systems, windows included, don't have a clue that your finger is headed for the switch. And modern operating systems also have a shutdown procedure that is designed to make sure everything is all cleaned up and put away, then they can kill the power themselves once its safe to do so. So please do use the systems shutdown, its a good way to have confidence that it will all be there the next time you boot it up. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) management, n.: The art of getting other people to do all the work. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] remove me from emails
On Saturday 01 May 2010, sandy rice wrote: remove me from emails.. for sandy rice TU Only you can do that Sandy, see the last line of every message that comes thru the server. And you must do it from the same account you used to subscribe to it. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Things are more like they used to be than they are now. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Text tool options menu, where is it?
On Friday 12 March 2010, Akkana Peck wrote: Gene Heskett writes: Greetings; My text font size is microscopic, and the help shows an option menu that lets me adjust that, but I'll be a monkey's uncle if I can find it. Anybody know where it wandered off to in gimp-2.6.6 as supplied with Fedora 10? You should have a text size button in Tool Options. See Figure 13.170 in the online GIMP manual, http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-tool-text.html If you've closed your Tool Options somehow (normally it's docked under the Toolbox), Windows-Dockable Dialogs-Tool Options should bring it back. That seems to have worked, at the expense of it's occupying some screen area full time, and I wasn't aware it was tool context sensitive, neat!. And its still there after closing and reopening Gimp. Thank you very much, both you and Dick -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Grinnell's Law of Labor Laxity: At all times, for any task, you have not got enough done today. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Text tool options menu, where is it?
Greetings; My text font size is microscopic, and the help shows an option menu that lets me adjust that, but I'll be a monkey's uncle if I can find it. Anybody know where it wandered off to in gimp-2.6.6 as supplied with Fedora 10? Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) No spitting on the Bus! Thank you, The Mgt. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] need Epson NX515 version of escputil or mtink
Greetings all; The print head in my Epson NX515 is in serious need of cleaning. This device doesn't seem to have readily available maintenance menu for this until some powerup timeout has expired. And then its buried behind other less important stuff. And it looks as if the first pass didn't get all the plugged nozzles. :( MTink used to be able to do this immediately so one didn't have to wait around 15-20 minutes for the printer to decide to let one do it. MTink has now lain semi-dormant for around 3 years and can no longer access the newer printers. Is there any hope of linux ever having a working utility for this again? -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Q: Why did the lone ranger kill Tonto? A: He found out what kimosabe really means. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] need Epson NX515 version of escputil or mtink
On Friday 05 March 2010, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com [03-05-10 11:16]: The print head in my Epson NX515 is in serious need of cleaning. This device doesn't seem to have readily available maintenance menu for this until some powerup timeout has expired. And then its buried behind other less important stuff. And it looks as if the first pass didn't get all the plugged nozzles. :( MTink used to be able to do this immediately so one didn't have to wait around 15-20 minutes for the printer to decide to let one do it. MTink has now lain semi-dormant for around 3 years and can no longer access the newer printers. Is there any hope of linux ever having a working utility for this again? escputil packaged in gutenprint will do this function and check the nozzles and display ink levels, ... The version I have only supports the NX's up to 400. That driver doesn't work with an NX-515. I just found a tarball of 5.2.4, built and installed it, but then checked the rpm version for F10, they are the same. So not much help there. I take it there is an even newer version? Link? Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity. -- G.B. Shaw ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] need Epson NX515 version of escputil or mtink
On Friday 05 March 2010, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com [03-05-10 12:00]: I just found a tarball of 5.2.4, built and installed it, but then checked the rpm version for F10, they are the same. So not much help there. I take it there is an even newer version? Link? cannot help you there. I am running gutenprint-5.0.2-4.1.x86_64 on openSUSE 11.2 x86_64. There is gutenprint-5.2.4-45.19.x86_64.rpm available in factory. You could dl the source rpm and build your own, http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/gryffus/openSUSE_Factory/sr c/gutenprint-5.2.4-45.19.src.rpm I don't know about support for your particular printer. http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting http://www.openprinting.org/printers/ do not offer any recognition of epson nx515. suggestion: Check drivers before purchase :^) There were no older ones on the shelves. Darnit. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Disk crisis, please clean up! ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Printing
On Sunday 21 February 2010, Frank Gore wrote: On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Dick Smith dsmit...@gmail.com wrote: However, if the $140 printer won't print on linux, then there is lttle to be gained by purchasing one. I always check for proper Linux support first. There are very few HP printers that aren't perfectly supported under Linux. My Color LaserJet 2840 does everything in Linux flawlessly, from printing to faxing to scanning and even remote-initiated copies (wtf is the point of that, anyways?), all over the network. I couldn't even get it to do those things reliably under Windows. On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: And if you ever have shootout comparing that HP to the others, from my experience an Epson ink squirter will be the last man standing. An old 4 color C82 made prints of weddings good enough to sell, with closer color matching than the so called pro who farms his stuff out to the custom lab in his local CVS. HP's red dye is way too orange to suit me. That's how they get the brightness, yes, but that isn't a true red no matter how much ink you soak the paper with. Sadly, the C82 finally burned out its head, so there is now an NX515 sitting here, but I need to do a bit of fine tuning, the drivers are a bit old too. That's interesting! I've been doing tons more photography lately, and Gimp has become a much more useful tool as a result. I'm definitely looking for something with good colour fidelity, so I'll have to check out the options. It's just hard to beat HP's Linux support. Even the printers they don't officially support (of which there are few) tend to work flawlessly anyways. I've been burned in this department before with cheap Lexmark printers. Lexmark? Oops, sorry, but now we're both guilty, so I'll be right behind you in the line to warsh my mouth out with some of grandma's lye soap. They obviously have more lawyers than engineers, and will sue anyone who says differently. Be advised their warranty is null and void if its ever been hooked up to a linux box. Been there, learned that, but the lesson cost me a bit over 100 USD for that class's tuition. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Happiness is just an illusion, filled with sadness and confusion. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Printing (was Re: running out of hair)
On Monday 28 December 2009, Akkana Peck wrote: Gene Heskett writes: So my question is: Where do I put the BR2140.ppd that cups uses so that the gutenprint plug-in can also find it? The regular print dialog has no knowledge of this printer, and nowhere near enough controls to be usable. The regular (GTK) print dialog should see CUPS-registered printers. Yes and no. It sees them, but I've had to add them before it works. Gutenprint doesn't -- for Gutenprint you have to add each printer yourself, and it doesn't have drivers for a lot of printers that CUPS supports just fine, Or reconfigure it by figuring out where to put the HL-2140.ppd.gz package, which I believe I have done now: [r...@coyote ups]# locate HL2140.ppd.gz /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/PPD/Brother/HL2140.ppd.gz /usr/share/ppd/HL2140.ppd.gz So that one is working. And it now appears I need to do the same thing for my new NX-515 all-in-one, but that brings up another problem. I cannot leave the xsane dialog open to the scanner in it, and print at the same time, the print jobs then apparently go to /dev/null, and the printer icons green ready button in the FF display turns yellow, not red. I tried to use the NX515's built in copy function, but the copy was so bad it went straight to the round file. So if there are multiple pages to copy, I have to get them, save them, close out the xsane dialog, then reload, do any adjustments, and then print. And when the printing didn't work, it made a 20 minute job for 8 pages into a 4 hour job. Foomatics NX400.ppd almost works with this, as does mtink, but it says all the color tanks are empty all the time. And mtink, I need working badly as the thing doesn't tell you which tank is low. Does it expect you to replace all 4 tanks at almost $90 USD everytime one runs out? If so, I will shortly have enough in this one to be able to afford a color laser, if I could stand the orange color of their reds. Recommendations please? Thanks. For Gutenprint, try asking on the gimp-print list (they're friendly) except for Waugh, its his way or the hiway, so I eventually unssubbed. to find out if there's a way to install a ppd manually. https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gimp-print-devel I resubscribed (I think) and posted a query there on 11/17/2009, but no replies have been received. No traffic from the list at all... Not even a reminder from mailman. I'll go see if it will let me login. No, so my subscription didn't stick. rant mode ON! Dammit I'm sick of sourceforge's CRS, enough so that I would never host a project of mine there. I'm a maintainer of the nitros9 project, and it forgot about me about a week after I setup the account 4 or 5 years ago so I haven't been able to do a cvs submission since and it won't let be setup a new account, claims I already exist. Fuggem. /rant It is then printed portrait, full sized. Any other method prints it landscape, slightly smaller in scale and still with some of the bottom clipped off. I've had a lot of trouble controlling details like edges and borders. With my HP and the GTK print dialog, I managed briefly to get borderless (full bleed) prints, but something changed in the CUPS settings and now I get unpredictable margin sizes, and I haven't found the magic setting to turn borderless back on. That option, as you know, comes from the driver, and is displayed and changeable from the gutenprint gui gimp calls here, and hasn't changed with any cups updates, currently at 1.3.11 here. However there are some miss-cues in the NX515 when being driven by the NX400 driver ppd, which is the newest one I can find. Trying some modes will only empty the paper chute for instance. My one message to the list did get there, and I offered to be a crash test dummy/mule, so I figured that would generate some traffic. No. And now I'm not subbed (again). I didn't have any better luck when I had an Epson and used Gutenprint. Accurate printing from GIMP still involves some luck and black magic. That depends on the printer. My old C82, using the C84 driver ppd, was photo perfect, I've sold wedding prints out of it! Until after 2 kilobucks in ink over many years and at least half a ton of paper, the print head finally failed. This NX515 I will need to fight with till its obsolete, at which point we may have a good driver for it. ;-) With luck. And that luck does NOT include sourceforge. ...Akkana Thanks Akkana -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) I once decorated my apartment entirely in ten foot salad forks!! ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] running out of hair here
On Saturday 26 December 2009, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I have a BW Brother HL-2140 printer, that I normally use with a color computer, all setup and working in cups, in addition to several different profiles for an Epson NX515 combo printer that I bought to replace my old Epson C82 when the printhead in it finally expired. Everytime I run gimp to print something, I am reminded that its printer database is totally independent of the cups database. And for some reason, tossing a gimp loaded .jpg at the NX515 only gets me about 80 pages of blank paper. Or a printer jam, this NX515 is a POS compared to the old C82. So my question is: Where do I put the BR2140.ppd that cups uses so that the gutenprint plug-in can also find it? The regular print dialog has no knowledge of this printer, and nowhere near enough controls to be usable. My wife, who needs about 8 pages of a Contata Finale piece printed on regular paper so they'll lay flat on the piano while she plays them, is checking to see if I've got this done yet about every station break on the tv. And my sanity, if I ever had any, is receding. Help! Thanks. PS, since no one has touched this one with a single character of reply, I found a workaround. goto print, select the Brother from the printer listing (after its setup with the new menu that's in there someplace), then do a print preview which does display it in portrait, click on the full width button on the menubar, then click on the print button on the preview screen. It is then printed portrait, full sized. Any other method prints it landscape, slightly smaller in scale and still with some of the bottom clipped off. I feel like I'm playing connect the dots here folks. The excedrin headache number is approaching overflow status... -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) There's no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] running out of hair here
On Sunday 27 December 2009, upscope wrote: On Sunday 27 December 2009 07:41:29 am Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 26 December 2009, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I have a BW Brother HL-2140 printer, that I normally use with a color computer, all setup and working in cups, in addition to several different profiles for an Epson NX515 combo printer that I bought to replace my old Epson C82 when the printhead in it finally expired. Everytime I run gimp to print something, I am reminded that its printer database is totally independent of the cups database. And for some reason, tossing a gimp loaded .jpg at the NX515 only gets me about 80 pages of blank paper. Or a printer jam, this NX515 is a POS compared to the old C82. So my question is: Where do I put the BR2140.ppd that cups uses so that the gutenprint plug-in can also find it? The regular print dialog has no knowledge of this printer, and nowhere near enough controls to be usable. My wife, who needs about 8 pages of a Contata Finale piece printed on regular paper so they'll lay flat on the piano while she plays them, is checking to see if I've got this done yet about every station break on the tv. And my sanity, if I ever had any, is receding. Help! Thanks. PS, since no one has touched this one with a single character of reply, I found a workaround. goto print, select the Brother from the printer listing (after its setup with the new menu that's in there someplace), then do a print preview which does display it in portrait, click on the full width button on the menubar, then click on the print button on the preview screen. It is then printed portrait, full sized. Any other method prints it landscape, slightly smaller in scale and still with some of the bottom clipped off. I feel like I'm playing connect the dots here folks. The excedrin headache number is approaching overflow status... If your running openSUSE Linux you can put the ppd into /etc/cups/ppd/ . I assume other distros also put it there. Also you can up the cups web interface to set up the printer. The PPD will still wind up in /etc/cups/ppd. make sure its the right ppd for your printer. Yes, I see the right one I copied in there yesterday, along with about every case variation of cups-pdf.ppd and a bunch of ppd.bak's, all gone now. I've no idea why I have to jump thgrough so many hoops to get the correct size orientation when printing from cups though. And it would also be very very nice if gimp used the same drivers, sadly, no. Thank you very much. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) You are here: *** *** * *** * *** * But you're not all there. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Silly Q, probably by the excedrin numerical system...
Greetings all; I have a friend that is sending me photoshop merged pictures, and the merge is out of registration over a quite good size vertical band in a panorama. Nothing I can do from this end once the broken merge has been done. I'd need the two originals before there is any hope of doing it truly invisibly. So my question then is does gimp have a similar, but automatic best registration facility? Thanks all. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) A little inaccuracy saves a world of explanation. -- C.E. Ayres ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] running out of hair here
On Sunday 27 December 2009, upscope wrote: On Sunday 27 December 2009 01:56:07 pm Gene Heskett wrote: [...] Thank you very much. What version of GIMP do you have? I just went into mine and called up a .jpg, changed its size selected print and my printer (Xerox Color Phaser 6120) and it printed no set issue. I have GIMP 2.6.7 from openSUSE repos' [r...@coyote etc]# rpm -q gimp gimp-2.6.6-1.fc10.i386 ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) You can't mend a wristwatch while falling from an airplane. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP T-shirt design contest
On Saturday 12 December 2009, Ken Warner wrote: HAT! I want a Wilber hat!!! I'll second that. Ismael Barros² wrote: Hi again, Just wanted to report that the Gimp T-shirt is ready to be sold: http://www.freewear.org/?page=show_itemid=FW0042 Regards, Ismael ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp The three best things about going to school are June, July, and August. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] gimp gutenprint troubles
Greetings; I recently bought a new scanner/printer combo, an epson NX515. This is a couple of generations newer that gutenprints newest choice, the NX400, and while the lower resolution stuff works nicely, that driver stops at 1440x720 in the resolution that works dept when doing test prints from the web page at localhost:631/printers. Then I bought a new camera cuz I was tired of carrying a kroger sack full of batteries to fill up a 64 meg card in the old Olympus C3020. Its a Nikon Coolpix L100. And the first thing I find is that while it has a usb port, it is not a storage device, so I have to figure out DigiCam and pull the pix to local files with that. Different, but it works. So I took that camera to a funeral service this afternoon and shot, by available light, several pictures. Now this home has red curtains on the walls, bright red carpet on the floor, and all their throw drapes over the tables folks put their stuff on are all red satin too. I can see on the screen that the camera has to make a huge adjustment to show me a decent image that more or less resembles what it might look like under white light. The image file itself has not been corrected, its completely raw. I've managed to get the gimps (and GEGL's) tools to give me something that might be printable. BUT, regardless of whether I try to print using gutenprint, or by the regular print path, I have only managed to get it to print 2 of the 7 pix I took. Problem? One print wion't work, it just emptied the in chute, then the next try, same image did work, then the next one after that, without changing a thing, will empty the input chute, occasionally printing 3-5 lines of text gibberish somewhere on the page, this despite using the browser to cancel all jobs for the selected printer profile when it starts spitting out paper by the 1/8th ream, and when that doesn't stop the printer, doing a power off reset while its in the middle of filling the out tray. Does this sound like something you might know about, or should I rejoin the gutenprint list and become the test monkey for them again. I don't mind that, after all I did get new drivers that did things the epson driver couldn't do when I bought that C82 new all those years (and probably75 reams of 24 lb paper + $1k+ in ink) ago. Now, this occurs as I said, with both file-print selections. I also had the gimps print preview image revert to the original disk image 4 or 5 times, this after saving the corrected image under a new name and reloading that new named image. That seemed, shall we say, odd... How should I proceed here? Thanks guys, for some very capable software. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of minix. (Linus Torvalds to Andrew Tanenbaum) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Need new printer
Greetings; My old and very faithful Epson C82 has apparently lost its printhead, it has plenty of ink according to mtink, but every time I clean the heads, fewer nozzles work, and the amanda backup report was printed without ink this morning. So, I brought up from its storage in the basement, a 5 year old C88 I had bought to use when I was on the road, but its out of yellow ink after about 10 passes at cleaning its well dried nozzles. So I'm going to town, ostensibly to get some ink, taking nearly a two pack of all 4 inks for the C82 with me to see if a tradein might be arraigned, either for some inks for the C88, or a whole new printer. I will not consider a lexmark due to their attitide vis-a-vis linux and their corporate structure being very top heavy with lawyers. I've always been fond of Epsons, so which of the current models on the shelf can do good photo quality work at a reasonable cost for expendables? By reasonable, that is in comparison to the about $80 USD for a full set of tanks for the old C82, and probably very similar pricing for the C88's inks. Is there some other favorite Golden Boy that also claims archival inks that I should also look at while I'm at Staples later this afternoon? -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion. -- Joseph Alsop ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Restore partial UV faded photo
On Sunday 18 October 2009, Ray C. wrote: I have several photos that are square but had an oval matt over them. Over the years the oval has UV damage. I am stumped on how to get the UV damaged part of the photo to match the original. Then I can restore and colour balance of the whole piece. I would appreciate anyone's suggestions on how to proceed with this. You can view a sample photo of what I am speaking of at: http://gimper.net/viewtopic.php?f=3t=6043 Ray Photo's such as that may not be truly salvageable, the red dye looks like it is 99% absent in the oval. You may have to do a lot of pixel selection, and repainting, a truly tedious and frustrating job even for someone with excellent color vision. I also came away with the possibility that the oval mask wasn't a totally acid free material, or that the original washing was not sufficient. What are the chances the negatives are still available? -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp A day without sunshine is like a day without Anita Bryant. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] hi
On Thursday 01 October 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Greg Chapman gregtu...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi Martin, On 30 Sep 09 22:10 Martin Nordholts ense...@gmail.com said: Then why don't you unsubscribe? Link can be found at the bottom of the mails Maybe because TREY does not see the link. When I opened TREY's mail there was no footer visible, but the message was marked as having an attachment. Turns out there were two. When I opened the first of these (text/html) it echoed exactly the plain text version I was seeing - no footer. Finally I opened the other (text/plain) and the footer was revealed. In my plain text mailer I have to go to a lot of hassle to read such attachments. I suffered the same issues with Paul Hartman's response in this thread. I apologize, I accidentally sent a multipart text/HTML message. I normally operate in plain text mode and must have switched and forgotten to change it back. Sorry! Normally the footer should be visible. Martin uses a signature, maybe the fact that the footer is beneath the signature delimiter caused it to be hidden for you in that case... just guessing. :) Paul One last word, although these things tend to get a life of their own. This is exactly the reason I like kmail, it ignores the -- sig delimiter, and I do see the senders sig, along with the rest of the footers messages. I personally would consider an email agent that hid that stuff, broken. But that is just one old mans opinion. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp Witch! Witch! They'll burn ya! -- Hag, Tomorrow is Yesterday, stardate unknown ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Printing issue
On Saturday 25 July 2009, Erik Lotspeich wrote: Hi Chris, I appreciate your feedback. Looking at the history of gutenprint only solidifies my point which is: Native Gimp printing = FAIL Gutenprint (Gimp plug-in) = WIN My distro is OpenSUSE 11.1 which is a popular, modern Linux distribution backed by a large company. I have all the updates. The fact is that it is the Gimp maintainers who have failed to provide a working printing system. Surely, you aren't asserting that the Gutenprint folks are responsible for Gimp's broken native printing system... the Gimp folks need to deliver a complete piece of software. They have nobody to blame but themselves for the current mess. Gutenprint provides a printing system that works. The OpenSUSE folks have NOTHING to do with the fact that Gimp's printing is all but non-functional. I'm quite sick of this attitude in the Linux community that distro maintainers are responsible for broken software. The truth is that the distro maintainers are constantly patching and making up for the inadequacies of the upstream source packages to try to cobble something together that works. They often don't succeed. Regards, Erik. Erik, I thinnk you are missing a point here. Gimp is the image tool, yes. But between foomatic and gutenprint, and as I have epson printers, I'm partial to gutenprint, keeping ahead of the continuous efforts of the printer people to create a completely dependent on the maker product, so they can give away the printer and make it up on inflated ink prices, and do it as well as they do, involves at least as many folks to keep gutenprint up to date as it does to keep a steady stream of improvements coming along in Gimp. This is really two separate problems cuz there are 200 printers, all needing slightly different drivers out in the field being used every day, for every Gimp contributor. Probably at least 250 under the Epson label alone, Lexmark (spit) probably doesn't make the same model for more than 30 days. You simply cannot expect the Gimp folks to keep ahead of that. Those of us who've used Gimp for the last half decade and more, just know that we should also pull in gutenprint, or if your distro doesn't have it, build it from the tarball, its not THAT difficult. I've done it many times and I'm your classic old fart, I'll be 75 in a couple months. Please go here and read the history/purpose of gutenprint (below the news): http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Then direct your rant at whoever is packaging your distro ;) +1000 Chris -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk. -- Maurice Baring ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Help again, same old story.
Greetings; Latest gimp-2.6 from fedora installed, and once again I am attempting to crop an image and cannot. Why is it so difficult to select a rectangular area of the image, like the whole top 1/3 or the whole bottom 1/3, and just plain crop it just as if I'd taken the paper cutters to the print. But while I can make the 'canvas' white, I cannot actually cut that part of the canvas and toss it in /dev/null, which should be indicated by the checkerboard pattern replacing it. Really guys, I fail to see why such an operation requires I post to the list each and every time I want to do it. So how DO it go about getting rid of, totally and forever if I haven't saved a backup copy, those parts of an image that should never ever see the light of day, or worse yet, waste bandwidth when it has to be uploaded at a hair over 50k/sec on my adsl circuit. Just turning it white doesn't cut it, I want it gone. This, most simple of a photo manipulation has been hidden behind portable menu mumbo jumbo for a decade now, is it not possible to fix it for almost main menu access, just by drawing a box around what you want, invert the selection and anything outside the box is gone forever, or at least till its undone. Thanks guys, but please fix this most simple of photo editing function there is. You can see my problem at http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene/emc/probe-asmbled-1.jpg Just as soon as I reboot to a kernel with working networking that is. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away. -- Robert Orben ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Help again, same old story.
On Sunday 03 May 2009, David Gowers wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings; This, most simple of a photo manipulation has been hidden behind portable menu mumbo jumbo for a decade now, is it not possible to fix it for almost main menu access, just by drawing a box around what you want, invert the selection and anything outside the box is gone forever, I do this all the time, I just make my selection with rectangle select and then use Image-Crop to selection. And I believe I tried that at one point in my 10,000 monkeys experimentation, and was left with a blank view, hello undo... It's possible to do it even quicker with the dedicated Crop tool. or at least till its undone. Thanks guys, but please fix this most simple of photo editing function there is. You can see my problem at http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene/emc/probe-asmbled-1.jpg which is now fixed, thanks to a previous poster. I can see your problem is that you are behaving in an arrogant and demanding fashion. Because it has been a constant source of confusion to this old fart (I'm now 74) since my first contact with gimp in about 1999 or so. Every other selection that I tried, wiped the part I wanted to save, often via the leaky lasso theory. One gets tired of reaching for the edit undo function. FWIW, if I was in the darkroom making my own prints, a process that even in color, I am familiar enough with that I made my own color paper developer. Far more stable colorwise than what I could buy at the photo stores 30 years ago when I was doing it several times a week. I would do this crop by running my Bessler 23c/w/dichro head on up the rack and adjusting the easel to get exactly what I want, so automatically I wasn't even concious of doing it. That is why I find it so difficult to make gimp do it. This also leads me to doubt whether you have done a reasonable amount of research on this problem, especially as the first hit for Google search GIMP crop image to selection includes instructions for cropping using the Crop tool. I didn't. Why should google have better instructions on running the gimp than its own help has? In case it wasn't clear to you.. 'Erasing part of the image' does not in any way equate to 'reducing the area of the image'. David Ok, what does the autocrop and zealous crop function actually do then? They do not obviously do this. The erase functions should be labeled as erase, not crop, or some $5 equ prefixed *crop. To this old darkroom techy, 'crop' means what you don't want never makes it to the print paper in the first place even if you have to block it with the easels blades and trim the paper to some odd size once its dry again. I have even saved it and reloaded it to a new window, and of course all this blank space is still part of the image it loads. So please don't call an 'erase' function a 'crop', its scattered all through the menus miss-labeled as a crop. It is not. It just adds fuel to the fire of frustration. Now, please take this as constructive, I don't intend to get into a big argument about nomenclature. But to me, the word crop is often miss-used in the menu's. Thanks David. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The future is a myth created by insurance salesmen and high school counselors. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Help again, same old story.
On Sunday 03 May 2009, Alec Burgess wrote: Owen (rc...@pcug.org.au) wrote (in part) (on 2009-05-03 at 23:13): On Sun, 03 May 2009 22:44:23 -0400 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings; Latest gimp-2.6 from fedora installed, and once again I am attempting to crop an image and cannot. Why is it so difficult to select a rectangular area of the image, like the whole top 1/3 or the whole bottom 1/3, and just plain crop it just as if I'd taken the paper cutters to the print. But while I can make the 'canvas' white, I cannot actually cut that part of the canvas and toss it in /dev/null, which should be indicated by the checkerboard pattern replacing it. To get checkerboard pattern replacing make sure the background layer has alpha channel (right-click on layers menu and select [Add alpha channel]. If a layer has NO alpha channel its name will appear in bold in the layer menu and cutting or cropping will show the background color. To just plain crop it just as if I'd taken the paper cutters to the print ... maybe you want Image-[Fit image to canvas]? ISTR I tried that in some previous incarnation of gimp, but because it was just erased, the 'canvas' was still wasted. I did try to fiddle with canvas size this time, but that adjusted the whole image without changing the ratio of image vs canvas, so that was just another edit-undo to me. :) Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Let me do my TRIBUTE to FISHNET STOCKINGS ... ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] not to knock gimp...I love it, BUT I have never has decent prints from it
On Friday 03 April 2009, Gracia M. Littauer wrote: On Friday 03 April 2009 09:55:34 Helen wrote Actually, you didn't say you use linux, so it was a reasonable question. I did say I used Linux, in a rather convoluted way, I will admit. I use only linux, and get prints that are shown and sometimes are sold in art galleries. BUT YOU PRINT FROM OO not gimp have complained to me often about gimp printing. The question I asked or thought I asked was about printing from GIMP in linux. I only have a problem with gimp as do you and quite a few others as I noticed from the thread. I admit I have an old (but great) wide epson stylus 3000 printer and have found some help from Krawitz, the gutenprint head honcho, on upping the color density so my prints from OO (in linux) are OK, but not as great as from PhotoShop on my windows laptop. So my question still stands...do people find printing FROM gimp in Linux bad? for those who think I'm a troll or haven't tested...I'm a rather attractive tall old broad have used CUPS, gutenprint 5. You left yourself wide open with that one. I'm 74. But gravity has pulled the 17 neck I used to have, down to someplace hidden behind my navel. To call me a bit 'portly' would be kind. As for the troll? Nope. I'll go you one better, though, I can prove it. See http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene The pix is now 5 years old, but that's me the better half, and there is more below the pix. While using the gutenprint plugin for gimp, I have made color prints from weddings etc, on an elderly epson C82 4 color printer, on good mat paper that I have sold, several times. Epsons inks are pricey but pretty accurate. Never occured to me to DL gimp to window machine try printing. Seemed conter productive since I'd have to move photo from one machine to the other. I do almost all my work on Linux box...just keep windows laptop for the few things that haven't migrared to linux. Heh, yeah, I have one of those too, dual boots xp and linux. Mainly used when I'm on the road, putting out technical fires at some tv station. Broadcast engineering has been my bread supplier for about 47 years now. The lappy is probably 14 months cold ATM. And that is the only winders machine on the premises, 1 out of 6, the other 5 are running. But one of those 5 is running nitros9, so I'll see how much you know about 'legacy' computers. :) -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way a midget is good at being short. -- Clive James, on Marilyn Monroe ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] not to knock gimp...I love it, BUT I have never has decent prints from it
On Wednesday 01 April 2009, Marco Ciampa wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:39:17AM +0200, Carusoswi wrote: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 06:46:59PM -0400, Gracia M. Littauer wrote: I always do them in Photo shop on my windows laptop. Am I the only one with this problem?/ I have a bet going that I'm not ;^). I say linux is weak in the printing area it's about the only good thing windows does. You haven't used Linux recently (or ever), did you? Modern Linux uses CUPS printing system (that stands for Common Unix Printing System) that is the very same system Apple OSX uses nowadays, but the Linux counterpart is even richer of drivers and supports... Never say one thing before having tested it thoroughly. I use Gimp in both Windows XP and Linux (Ubuntu 8.10). Since I have yet to find a cups driver for my Canon i960, I purchased TurboPrint, and, thankfully, it allows full function of my printer under Ubuntu. So actually you state that Linux has better print support that anything else :-) Which is nice I guess, but it sure points out that the OP has become used to the poor performance and limited options of gimp normal printing regime. The last time I tried turboprint, admittedly 3 or 4 years ago, its color performance left much to be desired, an artifact of it soaking the paper clear through probably. The kindest I could be to turboprint would be to call it fugly. Gimp-print was an improvement, but not until gutenprint was up to 5.02 could I make a print on good color paper that I could actually feel comfortable selling to the public. And I have done exactly so several times since then. If the right gutenprint plugin is installed, you will have 2 print options in the menu, print and print with gutenprint. Using Epson printers also helps although I do not know if the equ of my old 4 color C82 can be had today. I also have a 6 color C88, but it tears up paper with poor handling and has from out of the box. At about 1 out of two pages printed. And that one good page, fed back to do double sided, is so badly damaged it can't make a 2nd pass. This C82 has wrinkled 2 or 3 sheets max, in close to 80 reams of good quality paper I've fed it. To me that is phenomenal all by itself. In XP, however, Gimp will not print photos forme, refusing to retain the page layout instructions I specify (4.6 results in a 4 x 6 image on letter sized paper). probably is really a stupid hint but please, be kind: have you tried to insert the image to print into an OpenOffice page? I found it the easiest way to handle the print page layout... I have done that too because of the ability to resize that OOo gives us comes in very handy. And its color reproduction is equally flawless. All this on linux of course. :) bye -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Of course, some people consider hidden bugs to _be_ fixed. I don't believe in that particular philosophy myself. - Linus Torvalds on linux-kernel ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Where did Gimps menu's go?
Greetings; gimp is a 2.6, whatever Fedora 10 is shipping. I hadn't run it since upgrading to F10 from F8, and I can't find the xsane linkage or anything. The tools menu looks like it has some empty space where those menu items used to be. How do I get them back usable. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Empty skull, vacated because I can't crop an image and its driving me to drink.
Greetings; Fedora 8, gimp 2.4.6. I'm back again, trying to crop an image, again, yet, still. I can cut and cut and cut till I have what I want, but not even the zealous crop will get rid of the image area cut, it is still part of the image even if I draw it exactly enclosed, cut it, and open a new blank image and paste, the white space at the top of the pix is still there. I've also saved the zealous crop results, and reloaded it, but the white space left after the cut is still, apparently forever a part of the image. I don't want it, and I sure as heck don't need it restricting where guntenprint can put it on the paper because gutenprint will not allow the white space to be expanded off the edge of the paper. Darnit, I want to see the crosshatch indicating no data at all exists in that area once I have selected it and cut it away. If I can do it in the darkroom on an enlarging easel a pair of scissors (and I can and have many times in the last 60 years), why can't I do it in gimp? So what is the secret handshake that makes a cut operation a real, totally nuked, its ALL GONE cut as if the data went 100% into the bit bucket? -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) A homeowner's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a weekend for? -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Youth is the trustee of posterity. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Feature request
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 17:59, Thomas Spuhler wrote: I have been a Gimp user on Mandrake (currently 9.2) for quite some time. I am currently using Gimp2-pre2. One of the features that I find annoying is the printing. It is difficult to use other printers than the standard, at least I don't know a direct and easy way. Using Gimp's normal printing feature is nice and OK for home usage or if always printing to the very same printer. Using kprinter is a really nice way to print in a corporate environment. I can choose the printer I like or need on the corporate network. Would there be a possiblity to make just one small change and do it like Adobe Acrobat Reader: You just type in krinter into the printer field in the printing dialog? If you were using gimp-print and cups, it would be pretty easy I think. I have 2 printers, both epson ink squirters, and 4 actual definitions setup, 2 for each printer in cups. 1 low res for text type outputs, and one hi-res for text+photo, both in color, for each printer. To the Gimp, they are simply lp0, lp1, lp2, and lp3, and the gimp-print dialog allows you to change which printer you are using. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Squaring up an Image - Perspective Transform Changes Sizes
On Thursday 22 January 2004 16:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( Marc) (A.) (Lehmann ) wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 12:43:18PM -0700, Steve Strobel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried using the perspective transform to adjust the corners of the image so the section lines would be horizontal and vertical. That's actually correctly doing what the perspective transform is doing (try to imagine a plane with rectangles on it, in an angle towards you). From what you are writing, I'd say he shearing transform is *exactly* what you need, so what kind of problems are you facing when using a shear transform? You may also be trying to undo the spherical component of the mapping. USGS maps, and most maps in general are on a spherical plane usually, sometimes on a modification of the mercator projection. This may be something that the gimp coders could add, a 'de-sphericalizer'. Make the user put in the 1/xx ratio as shown on the map and use that to calculate what to do. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp version's outdated
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 15:26, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here I would modfiy that because I use the gimp for all my image printing, so the 2.0 release needs to be able to link up with the newer gimp-print too. So far, that hasn't happened. I assume it will by the time gimp-print is out in 5.0 final, and gimp in 2.0 final. Support for the newer gimp-print API will be added. If it doesn't make it into 2.0.0, there's nothing that keeps it from being done for the 2.0.1 release. Chuckle, that old adage about never downloading version x.0.0 of anything comes to mind. :) -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] trying to repro scanned images at full size
On Monday 29 December 2003 13:05, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am I being an idiot? Intuitive it doesn't seem to be. Something like hideing the variable rotations in a completely different menu from the fixed rotations. Its easier to rescan, move copy, and rescan etc and rescan util there is no rotation needed than it is to find the 1 degree operator needed to square something up. You should try the 1.3 development version. It has a menu entry for Arbitrary rotations that brings you directly to the Rotate tool. Sven I've been told it doesn't work with gimp-print? It does now? -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Multiple copies to printer
On Friday 07 November 2003 13:18, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there anything I can do about this? See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110307 I take it that means the next version will have that? Currently, I have 1.1.19 installed. Sven -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with configure option --prefix
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 10:12, Christoph Haller wrote: I've compiled gimp-1.2.5 with success using the configure option --prefix=$HOME/foo However, when I try to start I face a rather bizarre message For a proper GIMP installation, a subdiretcory named $HOME/~/foo needs to be created. This appeared wrong to me, but out of curiosity I did the favor and created a directory called ~ (tilde) in $HOME. GIMP started, but as I expected complained about a missing directory $HOME/$HOME/foo The other way around, creating a $HOME/$HOME/foo in the first place, doesn't work either. I'm afraid I'm stuck in a vicious circle. Does anybody know, where my initial mistake may be. Regards, Christoph Thats because AIUI, the tilde is a universal symbol representing the *users* home dir, as in if I was logged in as gene, then it would be string subbed by /home/gene when encountered in a script. So ~/foo would be /home/gene/foo in that case. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] the gimp wiki
On Friday 20 June 2003 11:27, Geoffrey wrote: Carol Spears wrote: i love TheGIMP, i will continue to be an avid user, but i seem very very ineffective as a gimp dot org person. i am thinking that if i stop presuming to have anything to say or any good ideas, someone who can better suit the developers needs can step into this, eh, position. i will even unsubscribe from this list, as i do not want to cause the same disasters that i have to the new person/people. Woah now. Where did this come from? Did I miss something? Personally, I've found your (Carol's) postings to the list quite helpful at times. I would think it would be a great loss to not have her on the list. Again, did I miss something??? As another relative newcomer to the list, I'll echo those sentiments. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [gimp-user] rotating
On Monday 16 June 2003 08:54, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The popup when the mouse is over it says rotation, shearing, scaling, perspective. But I was unable (and the manpage is something like yet to be written for at least 1/2 of those functions) unable to get it out of the rotation mode and into one of the last 3 modes. How is this done? I tried the usual suspects of shift clicking and didn't seem to hit the magic twanger on the other functions. Double-Click the tool icon in the toolbox to open the tool options dialog. You should really have this dialog open all the time in order to make use of the full feature-set of The GIMP. Kewl! Ok, one other function I need, the ability to draw a straight line between two marked points. So far all I've found is the free-hand stuff and these ancient, getting shaky hands no longer run a mouse in anything like a straight line. Is that similarly hidden? Gimp is 1.2.3. We improved this in GIMP-1.3. I'm sure you would have found the rotation feature in the CVS version of The GIMP. I may try to build 1.2.5, I see its out for 2-3 days now. Will it build on RH8.0? Sven -- Cheers Sven, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [gimp-user] rotating
On Monday 16 June 2003 08:47, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 13:41, Gene Heskett wrote: The popup when the mouse is over it says rotation, shearing, scaling, perspective. But I was unable (and the manpage is something like yet to be written for at least 1/2 of those functions) unable to get it out of the rotation mode and into one of the last 3 modes. How is this done? I tried the usual suspects of shift clicking and didn't seem to hit the magic twanger on the other functions. Gimp is 1.2.3. You need to double-click on the tool in the toolbox to get to the tool options. This goes for all the tools. Another way to show the tool options is to use the menu File/Dialogs/Tool Options... Thanks. You can tell rather obviously that I am not a graphics artist. :( Sincerely, ./Brix -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [gimp-user] rotating
On Monday 16 June 2003 13:14, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kewl! Ok, one other function I need, the ability to draw a straight line between two marked points. So far all I've found is the free-hand stuff and these ancient, getting shaky hands no longer run a mouse in anything like a straight line. Is that similarly hidden? http://mmmaybe.gimp.org/tutorials/Straight_Line/ Great! I backed out one level and bookmarked it for future reference, thanks. Sven -- Cheers Sven, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [gimp-user] rotating
On Sunday 15 June 2003 16:06, Liz Quilty wrote: Ahhh! thank you! I knew I had used it before I just couldnt find it :/ Must be monday. Thanks! Liz Q On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 07:36, João Carlos Fernandes Pinheiro wrote: Hi! Yes it is. On the main menu the second button on the right, counting from top allows you to rotate you image freely. What version of gimp? I don't recall running into that. And there is one application where I would love to have the curve generation ability of imagemajick available, that of drawing the 4/3rds earth curvatures for a microwave radio path, where one must mentally plug in the 11 feet per mile curvature when estimating obstruction clearances. None of the mapping utils (such as MapTech for winderz) in the sub 1000 dollar area give anything but straight line plots to the here to there profile outputs. And none allow the point to points to be elevated above the terrain to simulate a tower of x feet height. The ability to do that curve would no doubt speed up the deployment of 802-11 stuffs into those rural areas where there isn't x customers per square mile to make it profitable and attractive to the VC folks. On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 20:31, Liz Quilty wrote: Is it possible to rotate an image with gimp 1-2 degrees rather than only 90 degree angles? I dont appear to be able to find any options anywhere :/ LQ ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] suddenly can't load .pnm's from xsane, have before
On Friday 13 June 2003 20:12, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And now the gimp (1.2.3 according to the help screen) cannot load them, any of them, claiming something is out of range. PNM: invalid maximum value The PNM files either specify a maximum value of 0 (unlikely) or larger than 255. The latter is not actually invalid but not supported by the GIMP PNM plug-in. You can easily check your files by looking at them in a text editor. The PNM family of file formats has a human readable header which is explained in the ppm(5) man-page. So what do I do to fix this? I made the mistake of telling the missus it was a piece of cake :( Well, adding support for 2-byte per channel PNM files to the plug-in would be a piece of cake for any half-way experienced C hacker. If you don't fit into that category, why don't you use xsane directly from The GIMP instead of going through PNM files? Alternatively you could use one of the file formats that XSane supports (like PNG). That has apparently taken a vacation here. Humm, I thought I had that working, but its apparently an older version of that plugin, xsane asks me to accept the license, then scans, but doesn't find any devices. xsane itself runs just fine from an applet icon. Or there are rpm leftovers of xsane. Yup, it says its 0.84, and I have the 0.91 tarballs installed. ^%%$%$ up2date, I thought I had it trained, but its a forgetfull puppy. But rpm -qa|grep xsane comes up blank so I cannot blame it on up2date. Where is that puppy?, I'll nuke it and replace it with the lastest xsane-0.91 pluggin. I assume its still sitting in the src dir for xsane-0.91. Thanks, Sven -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
