[Gimp-user] Preview in CMYK

2011-09-22 Thread john Culleton
I know there is a function in Gimp for a preview using the CMYK gamut with the out of gamut colors marked in a special color, often a light green. I have forgotten how to activate it. The manual didn't seem to cover it. Help appreciated. -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book C

Re: [Gimp-user] Whither CMYK?

2011-09-20 Thread john Culleton
erstood. Professionals in the world of the printed word need CMYK. > > -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU

Re: [Gimp-user] Whither CMYK?

2011-09-20 Thread john Culleton
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:38:20 +0400 Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:27 PM, john Culleton wrote: > > > > About once a year I ask about a  capability to output a file from > > Gimp in pdf format and the CMYK color model. In addition it would be > &

Re: [Gimp-user] opening CMYK psd

2011-09-20 Thread john Culleton
However once you are in Scribus you may find that most of what you need to do can be done in CMYK in that program. My rule is: if headed toward web presentation work in RGB, if headed for print work in CMYK. -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.book

[Gimp-user] Whither CMYK?

2011-09-20 Thread john Culleton
be nice if after all these years Gimp catered to the needs of the printing industry. -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Be

Re: [Gimp-user] fixing file browser

2011-09-17 Thread john Culleton
ean here : > > http://imagebin.org/172855 > > Can anyone suggest what's wrong ? > > > You could click on the edge and pull it out. I use Gimp 2.6.11 on Slackware Linux. What do you use exactly? -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with

Re: [Gimp-user] please unsubscribe me

2011-08-05 Thread John Culleton
On Thursday, August 04, 2011 04:16:19 pm sandy rice wrote: > thks Do it yourself here: https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- John Culleton "Death Wore Black" Police procedural: http://www.deathworeblack.com/ "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http

Re: [Gimp-user] Suggestions for GIMP layout

2011-07-31 Thread John Culleton
On Sunday, July 31, 2011 04:33:43 am Ofnuts wrote: > On 07/30/2011 10:33 PM, John Culleton wrote: > > I have a different problem. I am processing a series of screen shots > > through Gimp to desaturate them (color pages cost more then B/W > > pages.) Each time I retrie

Re: [Gimp-user] Suggestions for GIMP layout

2011-07-30 Thread John Culleton
en B/W pages.) Each time I retrieve a screen shot from: /usr/local/active/scribusp and desaturate it I must chase down the entire file tree to save it again in /usr/local/active/scribusp. I think Gimp should remember the directory from which an image was loaded. Gimp 2.6.11 on Linux. -- John

[Gimp-user] emboss filter.

2011-07-29 Thread John Culleton
The emboss filter works fine but it converts text to silver/gray. I would rather have a yellow/gold shade. Is there a way, short of rewriting the C code, to achieve this effect? -- John Culleton ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Make scm files show up.

2011-07-25 Thread John Culleton
On Monday, July 25, 2011 05:12:05 pm Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:41 AM, John Culleton wrote: > >> > I downloaded gimpscripter.py and placed it in /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/python > >> > >> What did you do that for? > > > >

Re: [Gimp-user] Make scm files show up.

2011-07-25 Thread John Culleton
On Monday, July 25, 2011 04:38:59 pm Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:16 AM, John Culleton wrote: > > One of them showed up on the xtns menu sequence, the other didn't. > > Use Help > Plug-In Browser for finding your scripts and plugins. >

Re: [Gimp-user] Make scm files show up.

2011-07-25 Thread John Culleton
On Monday, July 25, 2011 03:55:35 pm John Culleton wrote: > I downloaded two scm files and copied them to > /usr/share/gimp/2.0/scripts/ > Now how do I get them to show up in the file->create- >logo > menu? One of them showed up on the xtns menu sequence, the other didn't

[Gimp-user] Make scm files show up.

2011-07-25 Thread John Culleton
I downloaded two scm files and copied them to /usr/share/gimp/2.0/scripts/ Now how do I get them to show up in the file->create->logo menu? -- John Culleton "Death Wore Black" Police procedural: http://www.deathworeblack.com/ "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http:/

[Gimp-user] Scheme to python-fu

2011-07-21 Thread John Culleton
interface to Gimp but are not apps themselves. Hopefully someone somewhare has tranlated some of the logo scripts to python. 2. Are there any advantages to using 2.7 instead of 2.6.11 with respect to python scripting? -- John Culleton ___ Gimp-user mailing

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP Fonts

2011-07-19 Thread John Culleton
On Tuesday, July 19, 2011 09:21:49 am crutledge wrote: > Is there any way to make gimp ignore the windows fonts and use only those > in the gimp font folder? Use Linux? (Ducks and runs) :<) -- John Culleton "Death Wore Black" Police procedural: http://www.deathworeblack

Re: [Gimp-user] UFRaw default settings

2011-07-18 Thread John Culleton
AW) format of a color wheel. When I import them into Darktable they come up greenish. What do I do next? Do I need a special profile for the Fuji camera? -- John Culleton "Death Wore Black" Police procedural: http://www.deathworeblack.com/ "Create Book Covers with Scribus"

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp in Unity

2011-07-08 Thread John Culleton
t; seems to apply the focusing a bit unintelligently. For example, if I move > to another workspace and return to the Gimp workspace, the focus is no > longer on the main window, but rather on the toolbox. > > Thoughts? What is Unity? -- John Culleton "Death Wo

[Gimp-user] Writing a book

2011-07-07 Thread John Culleton
am just asking for a best guess based on prior history of Gimp releases and the complexities of this one. -- John Culleton "Death Wore Black" Police procedural: http://www.deathworeblack.com/ "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://booklocker

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP

2011-07-05 Thread John Culleton
and view the Gimp Manual in an html viewer. Other than that there is no operational connection to the internet. No ports are opened. It is a stand-alone local program. Gimp has been in use for many years on many systems in many shops. It is not scary. I know of no vulnarabilities. But I

[Gimp-user] Do you use a tablet with Gimp?

2011-06-29 Thread John Culleton
Do you use a tablet with Gimp? If so, which one? -- John Culleton "Death Wore Black" Police procedural: http://www.deathworeblack.com/ "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___ Gimp-user ma

Re: [Gimp-user] Short book review: GIMP 2.6 Cookbook

2011-06-26 Thread John Culleton
ll think it was outright stupid to print it without color. > ___ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user It all depends on whether the book was printed offset or d

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotation witout cropping.

2011-06-25 Thread John Culleton
On Saturday, June 25, 2011 06:50:04 pm Daniel Hornung wrote: > Hi John, > do you rotate the layer or the image? > > Cheers, > Daniel The image, using the tool on the left hand tool palette. How do I rotate both simultaneously? -- John Culleton "Death Wore Black"

[Gimp-user] Rotation witout cropping.

2011-06-25 Thread John Culleton
ork for me. Gimp 2.6.11 on Linux -- John Culleton "Death Wore Black" Police procedural: http://www.deathworeblack.com/ "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-use

[Gimp-user] Default image dpi

2011-06-25 Thread John Culleton
When I import JPG images from my digital camera Gimp assumes that they are 72 x 72 DPI. Is there a way to set this defasult to be 600 x 600 without manually adjusting it each time using "scale image"? I use Gimp to print the images. Gimp 2.6.11 on Salix Linux. -- John Culleton &

Re: [Gimp-user] Producing Gel text.

2011-06-20 Thread John Culleton
On Sunday, June 19, 2011 10:44:17 pm Michael J. Hammel wrote: > On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 09:30 +1000, Owen wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 10:36:34 -0400 > > > > John Culleton wrote: > > > The excellent book by Michael J Hammel "The Artist's Guide to Gimp

[Gimp-user] Producing Gel text.

2011-06-19 Thread John Culleton
Make Blur layer active 33. Layer -> Trensform -> Offset -2 -2 34. Set Blur layer mode to Addition 35. Set Blur copy layer mode to Screen 36. Make text layer active 37. Filter -> Shadows -> Drop Shadow Offset 2 pixels Blur 3 pixels. --

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: scriipt-fu or python?

2011-05-15 Thread John Culleton
On Friday, May 13, 2011 05:13:47 pm Kevin Cozens wrote: > John Culleton wrote: > > 1. Do python scripts go into the same folder as .scm scripts? If not, > > where? I find the .scm scripts in > > Script-Fu scripts you want to add to your installation of GIMP should be &g

Re: [Gimp-user] Collage "scaling up"

2011-05-15 Thread John Culleton
be useful. Any program that lacks the memory overhead of Gimp could be used. -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Death Wore Black" Police procedural by retired police chief Bill Redding ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

[Gimp-user] Fwd: scriipt-fu or python?

2011-05-13 Thread John Culleton
this background which will the easiest to master for my first plug-in? The task I have in mind is "gel" text as described in "The Artist's Guide to Gimp Effects" on page 268ff. I did same for my current project but did not have much fun going through the 26 +/-

Re: [Gimp-user] Changing a Text Layer

2011-05-11 Thread John Culleton
ming to Gimp from other software. -- John Culleton 2401 Haight Avenue Eldersburg MD 21784 ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

[Gimp-user] Gel Text tutorial.

2011-05-10 Thread John Culleton
There are several of these on the net. Is there a favorite, one that works well on Gimp 2.6.11 with minimum fuss and feathers? -- John Culleton ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem downsizing Tiff's

2011-04-25 Thread John Culleton
are Linux I have several, including XV and Gwenview. Ubuntu typically doesn't come with a complete set of tools but you could try downloading either of the two I mention above. Then once set at a suitable enlargement you can use Ksnapshot to save the drawing as a png file at 72dpi. -- John

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem downsizing Tiff's

2011-04-23 Thread John Culleton
pdf? These are normally much smaller for drawings etc. than their bitmapped equivalents. If not you might have better luck importing them as bitmaps into Inkscape and then converting them to svg or pdf using either trace mode or outline mode. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers

Re: [Gimp-user] panoramic photo

2011-04-22 Thread John Culleton
Gimp, Scribus, Inkscape etc. is that, while the software and the support are free, successful use also requires a library of good books on the software. I also own (and use) "The Artist's Guide to Gimp Effects." Amazon lists some other titles I haven't bou

[Gimp-user] Problem with mailing list.

2011-04-22 Thread John Culleton
I am having troubles with my web host again so I need to post just to see if the message makes the round trip successfully. Please ignore. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus: http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___ Gimp-user mailing

[Gimp-user] My annual inquiry.

2011-03-18 Thread John Culleton
Just isntalled 2.6.11. I note that some people have installed 2.7.2. Is there a summary somewhere of the new features available with 2.7.2? -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus: http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___ Gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing Problem

2010-10-15 Thread John Culleton
ave a file (PDF anyone?) and print that file out using e.g., Acrobat Reader. And now a question. Why are you "upgrading" to the effectively abandoned product Vista? Would not Windows 7 make more sense? -- John Culleton, Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" $5.95 at ht

Re: [Gimp-user] Help with Gimp-help

2010-08-08 Thread John Culleton
On Sunday 08 August 2010 18:53:22 Owen wrote: > On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 15:13:57 -0400 > > John Culleton wrote: > > As an occasional user of Gimp I don't have all the arcana of > > installation memorized. Where can I find gimp-help and where should I > > install it? >

[Gimp-user] Help with Gimp-help

2010-08-08 Thread John Culleton
As an occasional user of Gimp I don't have all the arcana of installation memorized. Where can I find gimp-help and where should I install it? Salackware Linux 13.0, Gimp 2.6.6. -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" Printable E-book 38 p

[Gimp-user] Removing white border.

2010-07-21 Thread John Culleton
transparent. I have Gimp 2.6.6 on Slackware 13.0 Linux. -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Be

Re: [Gimp-user] How is 16 bit GIMP doing?

2010-07-12 Thread John Culleton
On Monday 21 June 2010 14:11:58 Martin Nordholts wrote: > On 06/21/2010 08:00 PM, John Culleton wrote: > > And what is the priority/schedule for CMYK? > > We know we need CMYK sooner or later, but higher bit depths and > non-destructiveness is much more important. So first good

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: GIMP vs Photoshop

2010-06-21 Thread John Culleton
On Monday 21 June 2010 13:12:19 Branko Vukelic wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:02 PM, John Culleton > wrote: > > I've cut your message since it's been said over and over (and over) > again. Lots of people complaining. I've just two things to say to all > of

Re: [Gimp-user] How is 16 bit GIMP doing?

2010-06-21 Thread John Culleton
out the legacy > 8-bit-per-channel code and replace it with GEGL. In other words, we will > start for real to introduce support for high bit depths in GIMP. There > is no schedule of this work, so a date cannot be given. It is reasonable > though to expect this work to go on for sa

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: GIMP vs Photoshop

2010-06-21 Thread John Culleton
o import specific "raw" formats for various cameras. So it has potential for being both a frontend and/or a backend to Gimp in a workflow without resorting to plugins etc. The feature set of Krita is nowhere near as complete as that of Gimp, so it is not a full replacement. And it is li

Re: [Gimp-user] RAW film formats.

2010-06-18 Thread John Culleton
On Friday 18 June 2010 13:32:34 John Mills wrote: > Try the 'ufraw' plugin. See: > [http://ufraw.sourceforge.net] > > Works here. > > - Mills > > On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, John Culleton wrote: > > While cruising through Krita I note that it will import sever

[Gimp-user] RAW film formats.

2010-06-18 Thread John Culleton
While cruising through Krita I note that it will import several raw digital formats from several camera manufacturers. Will this be a Gimp feature in the future? -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.scribd.com/do

[Gimp-user] font location.

2010-04-03 Thread John Culleton
w.ttf Gimp found it. Now we are a long way from 2.0. Why do I have to put a font in there to be found? And why doesn't the online Gimp manual say anything about font installation? Slackware 13 Linux, Gimp 2.6.6 -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" Printable E

Re: [Gimp-user] Multi-page TIFF

2009-08-21 Thread John Culleton
//mbnoimi.net/ You might be able to create a multipage document using Scribus, then export it as tiff. But the purpose of such an exercise escapes me. Why not deal with pdf instead? That is more suited for printing. -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.2.17 Crash During File/Open.

2009-08-03 Thread John Culleton
the self loading Debian system called Knoppix contains a fairly recent copy of Gimp. You download the cdr image, burn it on a disk and then whenever you need to use Gimp just pop in the disk and wait for it to load. You can still access and save files on your hard disk. This bypasses the N

[Gimp-user] freefonts & sharefonts on MSWin

2009-08-02 Thread John Culleton
defined. But how does one install an entire collection like the two mentioned? I have WinXP on a spare partition to experiment with. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___ Gimp-user

[Gimp-user] Chalk Logo doesn't work.

2009-07-31 Thread John Culleton
dialog just shows a background layer and a completely empty text layer. Should I just give up on Chalk? I have Gimp 2.6.6 on Slackware 12.2. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html __

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing issue

2009-07-27 Thread John Culleton
elect that printer from the Cups popup. Someday I hope to get a color laser. But I will still use Gimp for image massaging and something else to print out the results. Perhaps I should test Gutenprint directly from Gimp just to be sure it works. My

Re: [Gimp-user] Print Quality Poorer than Word?

2009-07-25 Thread John Culleton
tic novel example in particular. The main title type is from a Gimp logo with some layers supressed. The spine and the back cover type is set by Scribus. This particular book cover image is created at 72 DPI for web use. For a real book I would use 300 DPI. -- John Culleton Create

Re: [Gimp-user] babl

2009-07-22 Thread John Culleton
On Tuesday 21 July 2009 04:59:45 pm Sven Neumann wrote: > On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 21:09 -0400, John Culleton wrote: > > On Monday 20 July 2009 07:00:08 pm Jernej Simončič wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:47:53 -0400, John Culleton wrote: > > > > The version that matc

Re: [Gimp-user] How to Combine Layers with Feathered or Softened Edges

2009-07-22 Thread John Culleton
mple of the result I currently have: > > http://www.jamescobban.net/Ontario/images/B1912_33007.jpg > Combined image from microfilm. This is described well in "The Artist's Guide to Gimp Effects", page 47. Basically it involves applying a gradient to

Re: [Gimp-user] babl

2009-07-20 Thread John Culleton
On Monday 20 July 2009 07:00:08 pm Jernej Simončič wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:47:53 -0400, John Culleton wrote: > > The version that matches the version of Gimp in the tarball is > > what should be included IMO. > > Should GIMP then also include matching GTK+ and GLib?

Re: [Gimp-user] babl

2009-07-20 Thread John Culleton
On Monday 20 July 2009 05:25:12 pm Martin Nordholts wrote: > On 07/20/2009 11:20 PM, John Culleton wrote: > > I see no compelling reason not to include the libs in the > > tarball. > > What is so problematic about fetching the libs from ftp.gimp.org? > That is certa

Re: [Gimp-user] babl

2009-07-20 Thread John Culleton
On Monday 20 July 2009 03:41:14 pm Martin Nordholts wrote: > On 07/20/2009 09:35 PM, John Culleton wrote: > > On Sunday 19 July 2009 05:13:06 am you wrote: > >> On 07/19/2009 03:16 AM, John Culleton wrote: > >> > IMO > >>> > >>> t

Re: [Gimp-user] Are There Gimp Beginner Level Tutorials?

2009-07-20 Thread John Culleton
are pretty obsolete (like 2002). -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] babl

2009-07-18 Thread John Culleton
is done you are set for several upgrades, until Gimp requires a newer version. IMO these required libraries should be embedded in the Gimp release itself but there may be turf issues that prevent that. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp Manual format.

2009-07-14 Thread John Culleton
0 git://git.gnome.org/gimp-help-2 cd gimp-help-2 ./autogen.sh LINGUAS=en make LINGUAS=en make pdf-local pdfinfo pdf/en/gimp.pdf - I can't find on my system gimp_tmp.tex referred to in the error messages. Hence I can't patch the TeX code mys

Re: [Gimp-user] How to do this using GIMP

2009-07-07 Thread John Culleton
-user The shadow with the gradient could be created on a layer as a rectangle, then shaped to the two images using rotation and the perspective tool. I would apply the gradient as the last step. This layer would need to be between the normal label layer an

[Gimp-user] Convert gradients to smooth shades.

2009-06-26 Thread John Culleton
Ghostview suite) but I am hoping that Gimp has a more straightforward approach. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https

[Gimp-user] A new broken glass approach

2009-06-24 Thread John Culleton
net effect. I can diddle with this idea myself of course, but if someone has already done it I would appreciate a reference. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___ Gimp-user mailing

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp Manual format.

2009-06-20 Thread John Culleton
ized: no > PDF version:1.4 > > > Sven > > > ___ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user Addendum: you need to

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp Manual format.

2009-06-20 Thread John Culleton
; PDF version:1.4 > > > Sven This is just what I was looking for! Thanks. Am I correct in assuming that setting depth=0 delivers just the latest version? -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp Manual format.

2009-06-18 Thread John Culleton
On Thursday 18 June 2009 11:05:44 am Jay Smith wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: gimp-user-boun...@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu > > [mailto:gimp-user-boun...@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of > > John Culleton Sent: Thursday, 18 June 2009 11

[Gimp-user] Gimp Manual format.

2009-06-18 Thread John Culleton
the paper stack and print odds.) -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] print 2 pages to PDF file

2009-06-14 Thread John Culleton
done with the Ghostscript script ps2pdf. An hpefully the text etc. is preserved as text and not as bitmaps. There are horses for courses and tools for tasks. Gimp is not primarily a pdf or ps tool. That area hasn't changed in years AFAIK. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.6.X manual

2009-05-05 Thread John Culleton
On Saturday 02 May 2009 04:19:02 pm Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * John Culleton [05-02-09 11:42]: > > There is an online version of the 2.6 manual in html form. > > Is there a way to download the whole shebang in one step or > > must I download the individual files one at a ti

[Gimp-user] 2.6.X manual

2009-05-02 Thread John Culleton
There is an online version of the 2.6 manual in html form. Is there a way to download the whole shebang in one step or must I download the individual files one at a time? -- John Culleton Check out: http//wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http//wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf

[Gimp-user] PCD format density?

2009-04-25 Thread John Culleton
Gimp doesn't use PCD format. So I have been trying to convert a PCD image to something Gimp will use, such as tiff or jpg, using the convert program from Imagemagick. I have tried various density settings. Is there a default density to a PCD image? If so, what is it? -- John Culleton

Re: [Gimp-user] Soft proofing in 2.6.5

2009-03-01 Thread John Culleton
On Tuesday 24 February 2009 03:12:38 pm you wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 08:16 -0500, John Culleton wrote: > > At this point the preferences menu under the files menu > > shows only the Units dialog. > > Huh? The Preferences dialog is located in the Edit menu &

[Gimp-user] Soft proofing in 2.6.5

2009-02-23 Thread John Culleton
mut did not cover some shades. What more do I need to do to use soft proofing? If icc color profiles are needed how do I make them available to Gimp 2.6.5? I have various icc profiles in ~/colors for use by Scribus. -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.

Re: [Gimp-user] Scanning into GIMP

2009-02-23 Thread John Culleton
> Norman On Slackware you may need to add your user id to the group "scanner". Here is the line from file /etc/groups referencing my user name "safe": scanner:x:93:root,safe -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com _

Re: [Gimp-user] [GSoC] Logo, Flyer, FAQ, Timeline, Project Proposals

2009-02-17 Thread John Culleton
too little time. So a quick question: are there any plans to have Gimp work in the cmyk color model, as does Scribus, Krita etc. and thus open it up more fully to the publishing market? I ask this question about once a year, still hoping. John Culleton Wexford Press ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Gimp latest version

2009-01-31 Thread John Culleton
then find a version of gegl that works with Gimp 2.6.4. If the Gimp source distro contained a compatible version of gegl and babl then compiling from source would be a lot easier. Now my only other choice is to install Ubuntu or whatever on another partition and see if they have an updated binar

Re: [Gimp-user] ftp address for 2.6.1 rpm

2008-10-18 Thread John Culleton
On Saturday 18 October 2008 11:56:08 am Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 10:21 -0400, John Culleton wrote: > > So I went back to Slackware, which takes a lot of fussing but > > usually can be worked out with successive downloads/compiles of > > all the

[Gimp-user] ftp address for 2.6.1 rpm

2008-10-18 Thread John Culleton
ing in the right places. Can someone give me a pointer? John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%

Re: [Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.6.0

2008-10-04 Thread John Culleton
del, beyond what is already available in the preview feature. Is manipulation in the CMYK model in the works for some time in the future? Does the move to GEGL smooth the path to CMYK in some way? -- John Culleton Precision Typesetting Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.c

Re: [Gimp-user] printing only blue

2008-09-23 Thread John Culleton
t from rgb to cmyk after saving the file from Gimp. If the above RGB 00 is used then it should convert to Cyan (not exactly blue.) -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://w

[Gimp-user] Language switch for ./configure

2008-08-25 Thread John Culleton
needed for the many alternatives could be eliminated. Just my thought for today. -- John Culleton ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem with installing 2.5.2

2008-08-19 Thread John Culleton
I have deinstalled 2.5.2 and gone back to 2.4.5. I hope the value added by the gegl package is worth the extra install effort and the greater risk for failure. What pressing need does it address? -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortl

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem with installing 2.5.2

2008-08-19 Thread John Culleton
On Monday 18 August 2008 02:35:51 am you wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 23:53 -0400, John Culleton wrote: > > Is there a way to bypass this part of gegl? All I want is the > > parts that Gimp 2.5.2 needs. Documentation wouldn't seem to be > > critical. >

[Gimp-user] Problem with installing 2.5.2

2008-08-17 Thread John Culleton
[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/gegl-0.0.18' make: *** [all] Error 2 Is there a way to bypass this part of gegl? All I want is the parts that Gimp 2.5.2 needs. Documentation wouldn't seem to be critical. Slackware 12.1 -- John Culleton Reso

[Gimp-user] Is CMYK off the table for Gimp?

2008-06-29 Thread John Culleton
agenda for Gimp? It has been under discussion for years.Other Open Source products, such as Krita and Scribus, will work in that model. but they lack the capabilities of Gimp. So is there any hope? -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/sho

[Gimp-user] Creating Youtube slideshow using Gimp

2008-04-24 Thread John Culleton
I am just getting started on this. I know that Gimp can create individual jpegs to be combined using other software into an animated slideshow. But does it offer assistance beyond that? Any of you who have traveled this road please chime in. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and

Re: [Gimp-user] Postscript output

2007-11-15 Thread John Culleton
ange the code in the repository one time. As for inches versus metric I can change that in the lower left hand corner of an image window and that setting continues for the session. But the PostScript output routine ignores that setting and always defaults to cm. -- John Culleton Resources

[Gimp-user] Postscript output

2007-11-12 Thread John Culleton
nationality but the offsets simply have no purpose that I can see. -- John Culleton Precision Typesetting Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.4 rc3 and CMYK

2007-11-03 Thread John Culleton
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 03:21:00 pm Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 13:43 -0400, John Culleton wrote: > > Understood. But isn't there a recent feature that allows one to preview > > in the restricted gamut of cmyk? I forget what it is called. > &

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP 2.4.0; available for Mac also?

2007-10-29 Thread John Culleton
as the source code. Binaries for > various platforms will come later. I use 2.4rc3 on my slackware Linux system. Is this the same as the final release? It seems to work fine. -- John Culleton Want to know what I really think? http://apps.wexfordpress.net/blog/ And my must-read (free) shor

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.4 rc3 and CMYK

2007-10-23 Thread John Culleton
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 12:13:56 pm Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 10:21 -0400, John Culleton wrote: > > Is there a good document such as a wiki article that describes the > > enhanced CMYK capabilities of Gimp 2.4? > > There are no enhanced CM

[Gimp-user] 2.4 rc3 and CMYK

2007-10-23 Thread John Culleton
Is there a good document such as a wiki article that describes the enhanced CMYK capabilities of Gimp 2.4? -- John Culleton Want to know what I really think? http://apps.wexfordpress.net/blog/ And my must-read (free) short list: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.4 (& DEBs/RPMs)

2007-10-19 Thread John Culleton
oftware tools to download a source tarball, configure, compile and install it. That is what I did. Slackware means you never have to wait for a deb or an rpm :<). But users of most other distros can do the same if they are in a hurry for Gimp 2.4rc3. -- John Culleton Want to know what

[Gimp-user] 2.4 rc3

2007-10-17 Thread John Culleton
Just downloaded, compiled and installed 2.4 rc3. The user interface is much improved over the 2.3 series. Congratulations to those who built it. -- John Culleton Want to know what I really think? http://apps.wexfordpress.net/blog/ And my must-read (free) short list: http://wexfordpress.com/tex

[Gimp-user] Gimp 2.2.2 on Linux Slackware-Current.

2005-01-18 Thread John Culleton
x27;t checked on the Gimp help files yet. Previous Slacware releases always missed including them because they are treated as a separate entity in the world of Gimp. -- John Culleton ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu

[Gimp-user] Gimp on Slackware 10/Slackware Current.

2005-01-10 Thread John Culleton
le or directory I cannot find a file like this in the package inventory for Slack current. So, any Gimp users out there that would like to give me a hint? I can always use Knoppix for my Gimp jobs but Slack is a lot faster :<(

Re: [Gimp-user] Printed help.

2004-12-26 Thread John Culleton
s > from > http://docs.gimp.org > > Cheers, > Dave. > Ah, hidden in plain sight. I presume you mean the pdf snapshots. Thanks very much. -- John Culleton Short list of publishing/marketing books: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf __

[Gimp-user] Printed help.

2004-12-25 Thread John Culleton
. -- John Culleton Short list of publishing/marketing books: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

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