[Gimp-user] Problem (& solution) starting Gimp 2.6.7 under Snow Leopard
Hi, Just a hopefully useful error report. I'm running Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) and Gimp 2.6.7. When I boot and log in to the Mac, I always pre-start the X11 package, to run the nedit editor. On my previous setup, under Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and Gimp 2.4, Gimp would start fine whenever invoked. Now under Snow Leopard, when invoked Gimp stalls, no Gimp windows display, and an endless cycle of tries and retries to start X11 shows in the system log. (X11 is already started). Solution: quit X11 and allow Gimp to restart it, after which Gimp comes up fine. Thereafter, for the rest of the login session, Gimp starts straight away. Sounds like Gimp 2.6.7 needs a mod to better detect that X11 is already running. Hope that's helpful. Let me know if you would like the system log. Rgds, Greg E ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Solved my colour change problem
Folks, Sorry to keep changing the Subject, it's probably defeating the mailing list threading. I finally found the Color Exchange facility, under Colors / Map / Color Exchange, which does exactly what I wanted. Cheers, Greg E ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] More on changing a colour in an image
Thanks to the respondent below. On my present printer I can't cahnge to CMY only, it has very restrictive drivers. Also I use several printers from tiome to time and would like to solve this for all. Yes, dark blue has a lot of black in it but in my experience you can always find some colour that the printer will print pretty "dark", whetehr it be a dark grey or a dark other colour, that in a pinch will do for readable text, or a scannable barcode, or a diagram. Over the years I get this issue a fair bit, can't print absolute black but can print something close. So, can anyone just step me thru the Gimp steps for doing this ? Many thanks (or indeed atdhvaannkcse) Greg E. On Wednesday 02 September 2009, Greg Edwards wrote: > Hi, > The scenario - have an inkjet printer which regularly runs out of black > ink, but still has plenty of colour ink. I would like to change black to > dark blue or whatever, so I can print eg. a concert ticket with a black > barcode, which will still scan fine at the venue entrance. > > On SGI in Days of Olde, this would be " repcol ticket.rgb 0 0 0 0 0 20 > 10 " or similar, ie. replace all pixels within 10 units (out of 255) of > black with dark blue. Good old Paul Haeberli and his gfx tools. > > Appreciate assistance in doing this in Gimp - 2.6.7 on Mac with Snow > Leopard (10.6). Or indeed a command line tool of any kind, I need this > little trick quite a bit. > > ATdhvaannkcse ! > > Greg E Wouldn't it be the easiest way to set the printer to use CMY only instead of CMYK? Many printer drivers can do this. A dark blue would still consist of a lot of black since GIMP only knows about RGB and only when printing this is converted to a more printer-native representation. -- Greg Edwards mob 0400 102 774 ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Change black to dark in image, when printer is out of black ?
Hi, The scenario - have an inkjet printer which regularly runs out of black ink, but still has plenty of colour ink. I would like to change black to dark blue or whatever, so I can print eg. a concert ticket with a black barcode, which will still scan fine at the venue entrance. On SGI in Days of Olde, this would be " repcol ticket.rgb 0 0 0 0 0 20 10 " or similar, ie. replace all pixels within 10 units (out of 255) of black with dark blue. Good old Paul Haeberli and his gfx tools. Appreciate assistance in doing this in Gimp - 2.6.7 on Mac with Snow Leopard (10.6). Or indeed a command line tool of any kind, I need this little trick quite a bit. ATdhvaannkcse ! Greg E ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
