[Gimp-user] Startup problems
Excellent - I also wondered if I could copy the the file into Gimp folder. But like I said - too naive on a computer so I was nervous to try anything. You are wonderfully kind - thanks again for your brilliant help. Going to try doing this tomorrow evening when I have some time. Candice (totally overcast but hot and humid as any other regular Summery day in South Africa) Hi Candice, Let me spell it out again with my sincere apologies to all the non-HP GIMP users for boring them to tears but not eternally I hope! On my HP ProBook 4730s I had indeed managed to install GIMP by first changing the HP version of intl.dll into intl.bak. For further reference the GIMP installer had created a head directory GIMP-2.0 in the C:/Program Files of my HP. To get the flavour of GIMP I just used it for some image manipulations I routinely use with Photoshop on my old Dell, a rather expensive software which cannot be transferred to my new HP. I was impressed by GIMP which is free-ware after all. Then of course I returned my HP to its original set-up by changing intl.bak into intl.dll because I had found out with earlier attempts that the HP login would no longer work without that file and had to be by-passed just to regain control --- that depends how you customised your HP in the first place. Once the HP login procedure is returned to normal the activation of Gimp fails. (At once script-fu.exe cannot find something in that intl.dll library.) No use to complain to HP. I got nowhere with HP support on the matter of their login procedure for their ProBok S-series, whether some GIMP users might deem that procedure broken or not. I thought you would have to repeat the procedure used to install GIMP each time you'd want to use GIMP. A bit of a pain... However Kevin Brubeck Unhammer wondered if one could not circumvent GIMP's plug-in problem on the HP by copying GIMP's intl.dll into any GIMP subdirectory containing a plug-in. At least this couldn't interfere with anything but GIMP. Thus I copied the intl.dll file from GIMP-2.0/bin into GIMP-2.0/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins where all the plug-ins seem to be collected (including the script-fu.exe above) and presto I was in business! The results of running again my previous tests were just as expected BUT only a GIMP expert could tell us if this is the solution of the HP problem. I have some doubt that it is that simple otherwise it would have been already known... Thanks to Kevin anyway for his suggestion and greetings from (wet) Sydney. René. Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:14:31 +0100 From: for...@gimpusers.com To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org CC: t...@gimpusers.com Subject: [Gimp-user] Startup problems Hello Thanks for your help. I was not able to access the net sooner so I am sorry for the late reply. I guess then what I need to do is (- please may you correct me if I have misunderstood your advice) 1. deinstall Gimp and all its components 2. open Windows system 32 file - find intl.dll - and then rename it to intl.bak 3. download and reinstall Gimp 4. Upon reattempt at installation of Gimp in theory, it should then not recognise or confuse System32's intl.dll (now called intl.bak) with its own thus installing itself correctly with all its extensions 5. reopen Windows32 system folder and rename intl.bak to the original intl.dll Hope I have it right? I can see how it should work if it is confusing HP's System32 intl.dll with it's own. One more question if you would oblige - do I have to do this -every time that I start up Gimp or just this once when installing it? Thanks so much for you time again. Candice -- NoviceGimper (via gimpusers.com) ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
[Gimp-user] why no difference of gaussians on layer masks? gimp 2.7.5
Hello all, gimp 2.7.5 on winXP, unfortunately. New hardware problems on my freebsd system. grr. Anyway... Why won't the gimp allow me to use a difference of gaussians on a layer mask? This seems like a perfectly fine thing to do for edge detection, and indeed, other edge-detect algorithms work: For example: New layer mask, from grayscale copy of layer Filters / edge-detect / difference of gaussians says: Execution error for 'Difference of Gaussians': Can operate on layers only (but was called on channel or mask). but Filters / edge-detect / Edge... works fine Is this a bug, or am I missing something? Any insights would be appreciated, Gary ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] why no difference of gaussians on layer masks? gimp 2.7.5
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:02 PM, Gary Aitken wrote: Hello all, gimp 2.7.5 on winXP, unfortunately. New hardware problems on my freebsd system. grr. Anyway... Why won't the gimp allow me to use a difference of gaussians on a layer mask? This seems like a perfectly fine thing to do for edge detection, and indeed, other edge-detect algorithms work: For example: New layer mask, from grayscale copy of layer Filters / edge-detect / difference of gaussians says: Execution error for 'Difference of Gaussians': Can operate on layers only (but was called on channel or mask). but Filters / edge-detect / Edge... works fine Is this a bug, or am I missing something? Any insights would be appreciated, Hi Gary, Not sure about the technical side of this, but you should be able to perfectly work around that. 1. Enable display of the mask via right-click menu so that the mask is displayed instead of the layers's contents. 2. Layers New from Visible. 3. Apply your filter to that layer. 4. Copy all of the layer's contents and paste it into the mask. 5. Remove or disable the extra layer you created. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] why no difference of gaussians on layer masks? gimp 2.7.5
Hi Alexandre, Yes, I'm aware that I can work around it as you mention, and have been doing so. But it is a pain in the rear, and unless there is some over-riding reason for not allowing one to do this operation, it seems the gimp should allow it. My main reason for posting was to see if it is a known issue and decided to be left as-is. I don't see an open bug for it. I suspect it may be a relic of implementation difficulties and so a capability which may be desirable but a bit awkward to implement. Thanks, Gary On 1/21/2012 12:39 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:02 PM, Gary Aitken wrote: Hello all, gimp 2.7.5 on winXP, unfortunately. New hardware problems on my freebsd system. grr. Anyway... Why won't the gimp allow me to use a difference of gaussians on a layer mask? This seems like a perfectly fine thing to do for edge detection, and indeed, other edge-detect algorithms work: For example: New layer mask, from grayscale copy of layer Filters / edge-detect / difference of gaussians says: Execution error for 'Difference of Gaussians': Can operate on layers only (but was called on channel or mask). but Filters / edge-detect / Edge... works fine Is this a bug, or am I missing something? Any insights would be appreciated, Hi Gary, Not sure about the technical side of this, but you should be able to perfectly work around that. 1. Enable display of the mask via right-click menu so that the mask is displayed instead of the layers's contents. 2. Layers New from Visible. 3. Apply your filter to that layer. 4. Copy all of the layer's contents and paste it into the mask. 5. Remove or disable the extra layer you created. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
