On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:17:37 -0200, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I went to the site, and did not find easily a description of what the > plug-ins do (althoug I am in a hurry). Can you give us a url? http://www.ximba.org/gfxmuse/gfxmuse.html Links to the download page, wiki, etc. are in the upper right corner. I tested the web site design under Firefox and IE (don't remember which version, but it was on WinXP). It might have problems rendering correctly under other browsers, though I tried to make it W3C compliant to some extent (probably got a few pages still to debug). The plug-in most asked for is GFXArrows, which draws arrows in varying shapes. Who'dda thought that one would be the popular one? The one I think is most useful is GFXLayers. It allows you to visually align layers in all sorts of ways, interactively, using thumbnails of the layers. It's not the best UI design, but it works well. Maybe if I get some feedback on the problems with the UI I'll be able to make it easier to use. GFXShapes needs thumbnail support. I need to add GdkPixbuf support to it for showing the page preview layout, similar to the way GFXLayers lets you drag layer previews around the page. It probably needs a way to easily add new, prebuilt shapes. GFXShapes was my answer to the common question "How do you draw simple shapes?" GFig is the normal tool for this, but I guess some people find it daunting to use. It's not *that* hard. :-) GFXTrans is best for doing multiple rotations for animations. The builtin rotation transform for GIMP is better for simple layer rotations. GFXMerge is the result of a posting someone put on one of the mailing lists asking for a way to split layers out into their own images or to merge layers from one image into another. It's very good at merging (splitting is broke in the beta but will probably be fixed soon), though I don't know how often anyone needs that. GFXCards lets you duplicate an image onto multiple cells, like for printing business cards, or create a printable image for use with greeting cards using an existing image for one side of the card. I use it mostly for business cards. It's a brute force approach, creating a big image at the correct DPI. A better method would be to generate a PS image that can be sent to the printer using a single copy of the orignal image. That would sure be a lot less memory intensive. Most of these (or is it all? I can't remember) are supposed to allow you to save your presets as XML files and reload them later. This is good for GFXShapes and GFXArrows, for example. Unfortunately, in the beta release the presets may not be working. I'll get that fixed. I doubt its a big problem - they worked fine under GIMP 1.2. > And...my most profound thank you for converting your shareware into an > Open Source application. Really, really really! Nobody was paying for them anyway. Just saves me the trouble of trying to build it for multiple platforms. It's a lot of work maintaining a bunch of different distributions like that. :-) I was also maintaining ports of a ton of plug-ins I found on the net as part of the original Graphics Muse Tools CD because they were not available in binary format for end users. But alas, few people paid for that so I dropped support for those other plugins. Way too much work for one guy. Now I just maintain the ones I wrote. Hope you find them useful. I need to get GIMP Perl working eventually to make sure the Perl plugins work under GIMP 2.2 too. -- Michael J. Hammel - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - XEUS: www.ximba.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mediocrity: It takes a lot less time and most people won't notice the difference until it's too late. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
