[Gimp-developer] API for time of last change vs. last export

2012-11-17 Thread Akkana Peck
On the thread-which-shall-be-nameless, when folks were asking for a way to quit GIMP without being prompted to save files that had already been exported, Alexia wrote: > Oh, let me throw up this idea for you - you do not need a fork, just > a script to override the default close... Very easy to in

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gimp-user] Gimp pdf export turns high res xcf into low res file and distorts text

2012-11-17 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Kamilla Elliott wrote: > But when I exported it to pdf, it was teeny tiny--about 2 inches by 1 inch > instead of 11 x 6 inches. As others have mentioned, check your print size. If all else fails, export it as PNG or TIFF, create a new document in Scribus, import

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gimp-user] Gimp pdf export turns high res xcf into low res file and distorts text

2012-11-17 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2012-11-17 at 12:59 -0800, Kamilla Elliott wrote: > when I exported it to pdf, it was teeny tiny--about 2 inches by 1 inch Check that "File->Print Size" is plausible. It might be that it's using the size from one of the images you pasted. Always work at either the final resolution or (muc

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gimp-user] Gimp pdf export turns high res xcf into low res file and distorts text

2012-11-17 Thread Burnie West
On 11/17/2012 12:59 PM, Kamilla Elliott wrote: Thanks again for your response. Sorry to be unclear. I first made the xcf at 100 ppi, importing photos and adding text; then when I had trouble exporting it to pdf (the photos were too blurry), I re-created it from scratch, setting it at 300ppi usi

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gimp-user] Gimp pdf export turns high res xcf into low res file and distorts text

2012-11-17 Thread Kamilla Elliott
Thanks again for your response. Sorry to be unclear. I first made the xcf at 100 ppi, importing photos and adding text; then when I had trouble exporting it to pdf (the photos were too blurry), I re-created it from scratch, setting it at 300ppi using Advanced Options under 'New File'. But when I

Re: [Gimp-developer] Overlay Mode - fix.

2012-11-17 Thread Burnie West
On 11/17/2012 08:38 AM, Liam R E Quin wrote: >GIMP's focus is on artistic needs. Whether a blend mode is useful or not, >can only a judged from an artistical point of view. If you want to model >physical reality with GIMP means, be careful to check whether the actually >implemented math is suitab

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gimp-user] Gimp pdf export turns high res xcf into low res file and distorts text

2012-11-17 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Kamilla Elliott wrote: > Thank you so much for the speedy reply. That does improve the res and sorts > out the font problems totally. It's still not printer ready--the photos, > which are very high res when I import them, remain a bit too soft and > blurry. I have

Re: [Gimp-developer] Overlay Mode - fix.

2012-11-17 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2012-11-17 at 13:57 +0100, yahvuu wrote: [...] > GIMP's focus is on artistic needs. Whether a blend mode is useful or not, > can only a judged from an artistical point of view. If you want to model > physical reality with GIMP means, be careful to check whether the actually > implemented ma

Re: [Gimp-developer] Overlay Mode - fix.

2012-11-17 Thread yahvuu
Hi Elle, Am 16.11.2012 20:33, schrieb Elle Stone: > An implicit assumption seems to be that linear light blending is > *always* more correct than blending in the regular sRGB color space. > While Normal blending requires linear light to be radiometrically > correct (to work like real light works),

Re: [Gimp-developer] Overlay Mode - fix.

2012-11-17 Thread Øyvind Kolås
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 9:30 PM, yahvuu wrote: > Am 14.11.2012 19:00, schrieb Guillermo Espertino (Gez): >> b) support applications that still use blending in non-linear space. Web >> browsers, for instance. > > how much support for 'web type' blending modes does GIMP really need? > > GIMP is not

Re: [Gimp-developer] Overlay Mode - fix.

2012-11-17 Thread Øyvind Kolås
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Elle Stone wrote: > Hi all, > > A couple different lines of discussion are in this thread, the correct > way to implement Overlay in regular sRGB, the effect of linear gamma > blending with respect to changing w3 standards, how to deal with > legacy blend modes aft

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-17 Thread Alexia Death
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Graeme Gill wrote: > And loss prevention has little or nothing to do with the decision > to save or export. If you track what features an image uses, then > you can by default save back to the file format used to open > the image. Only if some processing operation