Re: [Gimp-user] A "non-tool" selection...

2009-09-04 Thread Olivier Lecarme
It seems that the whole preceding thread is focused on the wrong point. The initial writers want a "non-tool" because they want to click on the image window without doing anything. But why do they want to click it? Certainly only for giving it the focus. That means that they are doing it the wrong

Re: [Gimp-user] Important menu options are missing

2009-09-04 Thread phanisvara das
On Saturday 05 September 2009 08:41:38 am Bill S. wrote: > I'm using GIMP 2.6.6 that came with my Ubuntu 9.04 distro. I've been trying > to learn about GIMP. I bought a book about GIMP for $45. your book obviously was written for an earlier version of GIMP. you can of course install that earl

Re: [Gimp-user] Important menu options are missing

2009-09-04 Thread David Gowers
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Bill S. wrote: > I'm using GIMP 2.6.6 that came with my Ubuntu 9.04 distro.   I've been trying > to learn about GIMP.  I bought a book about GIMP for $45.  The book says there > should be a menu item called DIALOGS in the FILE menu but my GIMP doesn't have > the DIA

[Gimp-user] Important menu options are missing

2009-09-04 Thread Bill S.
I'm using GIMP 2.6.6 that came with my Ubuntu 9.04 distro. I've been trying to learn about GIMP. I bought a book about GIMP for $45. The book says there should be a menu item called DIALOGS in the FILE menu but my GIMP doesn't have the DIALOGS option. The option is very essential, but I don't

[Gimp-user] Circular paint brushes have square cursor

2009-09-04 Thread Carusoswi
I installed Ubuntu-Studio (Ubuntu is version 9.04), and, when I opened Gimp, I was pleased with the larger group of brushes available under that tool, however, the soft-edged circular brushes now show up on the canvas with a square rather than circular cursor. It seems the action of the brush as y

Re: [Gimp-user] A "non-tool" selection...

2009-09-04 Thread GSR - FR
Hi, nospam-ab...@ilyaz.org (2009-09-04 at 0627.39 +): > The first thing I do when entering GIMP is switching to the eyepicker > (or is is dropper? ;-) tool. But it is not non-destructive enough; > and it is useless as a default tool. Zoom tool only modifies the view... is that non destructive

Re: [Gimp-user] A "non-tool" selection...

2009-09-04 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 09/04/2009 08:27 AM, Ilya Zakharevich wrote: > On 2009-08-28, Greg Chapman wrote: >>> I find it annoying that there >>> appears to be no selection tool that turns off all tools. > >> I am confused by this feature request. > >> The GIMP is an image editing package not an image display package

Re: [Gimp-user] A "non-tool" selection...

2009-09-04 Thread Jon Cosby
On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 21:16 +0100, Greg Chapman wrote: > On 04 Sep 09 07:27 Ilya Zakharevich said: > > > The GIMP is an image editing package not an image display package. > > > > Wrong. GIMP is a package for whatever the *USER* decides it is > > going to use GIMP for. And an absence of a conv

Re: [Gimp-user] Batch immage processing

2009-09-04 Thread saulgoode
Quoting "Haenlein, Michael" : > I have a series of image pairs (a couple of hundred) and I'd like to > do the following operation on each of them: > > (1) Open Picture A > (2) Scale Picture A to either 900 pixel height or 500 pixel width > (whatever is possible without needing to cut out sec

Re: [Gimp-user] A "non-tool" selection...

2009-09-04 Thread Greg Chapman
On 04 Sep 09 07:27 Ilya Zakharevich said: > > The GIMP is an image editing package not an image display package. > > Wrong. GIMP is a package for whatever the *USER* decides it is > going to use GIMP for. And an absence of a convenient > non-destructive tool is a major misfeature. Well, tha

Re: [Gimp-user] A "non-tool" selection...

2009-09-04 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Ilya Zakharevich wrote: > On 2009-08-28, Greg Chapman wrote: >>> I find it annoying that there >>> appears to be no selection tool that turns off all tools. > >> I am confused by this feature request. > >> The GIMP is an image editing package not an image display pa

Re: [Gimp-user] A "non-tool" selection...

2009-09-04 Thread Ilya Zakharevich
On 2009-08-28, Greg Chapman wrote: >> I find it annoying that there >> appears to be no selection tool that turns off all tools. > I am confused by this feature request. > The GIMP is an image editing package not an image display package. Wrong. GIMP is a package for whatever the *USER* deci

[Gimp-user] Batch immage processing

2009-09-04 Thread Haenlein, Michael
Dear all, I have a series of image pairs (a couple of hundred) and I'd like to do the following operation on each of them: (1) Open Picture A (2) Scale Picture A to either 900 pixel height or 500 pixel width (whatever is possible without needing to cut out sections) (3) Create a new file of siz