Re: [Gimp-user] Identify old GIMP font

2008-10-28 Thread Akkana Peck
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2008-10-27 at 1842.17 +0100): > > That looks like one of the "Fixed" fonts shipped with the X-Server. > > > > Since Gimp no longer uses the X11-mechanisms for font selection it no > > longer shows up in the font dialog. You need to somehow convince > > fontconfig to provide th

Re: [Gimp-user] Strange zoomout behavior

2008-10-28 Thread Martin Nordholts
Claus Berghammer wrote: > When I zoomed in with 2.6.0, put the cursor on the "pixels of interest", and > type "1", the pixels of interest WAS at (or close to) the cursor (as > expected). Now, with 2.6.1, the "pixels of interest" are somewhere, but not > by far close to the cursor. Instead I always

Re: [Gimp-user] Moving Selections

2008-10-28 Thread Daniel Hornung
> A task that I find myself frequently performing is cropping images. In > the old GIMP I used to drag out a selection box, and then use one of the > control keys (CTRL/ SHIFT/ ALT, can't remember which sadly) to move it > around until it looked right. One link to rule them all http://docs.gimp.

[Gimp-user] Moving Selections

2008-10-28 Thread Oliver Lennox
Hello All, I've been using the GIMP off and on since 2.2 and find it to be a very good piece of software. I'm a web programmer and don't tend to do much graphic design work, but occasionally I need a button / background in a hurry and I enjoy having a play around to see what I can come up with.

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling in Gimp 2.6 is much slower than in Gimp 2.4

2008-10-28 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 04:01 -0700, Claus Berghammer wrote: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557950 I have done some more tests and I tend to agree that the multi-pass scaling doesn't improve the quality when upscaling. It's a very simple change to get upscaling perform more simila

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling in Gimp 2.6 is much slower than in Gimp 2.4

2008-10-28 Thread Claus Berghammer
Hello... @Eric P: Upscaling image: 500px -> 5000px (bicubic): Gimp 2.6.1: 35,21 sec Gimp 2.4.7: 6,9 sec Downscaling layer: Image is 5000x5000 px, 2 white layers Scaling top layer to 2500x2500px (bicubic): Gimp 2.6.1: 7,85 sec Gimp 2.4.7: 4,78 sec @Sven Neumann: Thanks for your hint on the rel

Re: [Gimp-user] stroke selection not antialiased

2008-10-28 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 17:54 +1030, David Gowers wrote: > I can confirm this bug. If you stroke using a tool (eg paintbrush), > the result is antialiased, so I don't understand why the vector > stroking isn't Simon has actually explained this quite well already. The outline you are strok

Re: [Gimp-user] stroke selection not antialiased

2008-10-28 Thread David Gowers
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Ernie Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon Budig wrote: > >> Nathan Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >>>So why not convert your selection to a path then stroke the path? This is a >>>good work around, and even in my mind now, this makes sense. The stroked >>>

Re: [Gimp-user] Identify old GIMP font

2008-10-28 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 17:19 +, Per Gregers Bilse wrote: > I have now forgotten the name of the font I used (...) and I'm wondering > if anybody here might be able to identify it. Have you tried "What the Font" (http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/) already? Sven _