[Gimp-user] new Gimp book, about time
In the process of learning Gimp (ongoing project), I've wondered about the absence of books dedicated to it, at least since 2001 or thereabouts. I am therefore intrigued to (finally) see a new title, now preannounced on Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590595874/104-2820490-0282337 As a suggested purchase, Amazon pairs it with O'Reilly's Pocket Reference (2000), documenting Gimp 1.2 Yes, I realize the author actively participates in this ML. Though I realize there are many useful tutorials around, a well-written, well-edited manual and reference work will be very useful, and I look forward to seeing this work when it appears in April. -- Colin Brace Amsterdam ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] compiling 2.3.7: glib2 issue
Hi all, I get an error compiling the 2.3.7 source under Fedora Core 4: checking for GLIB - version >= 2.8.2... no It seems my version of glib2 is not up-to-date: $ rpm -q glib2 glib2-2.6.6-1 I have found an RPM which offers a more recent version, glib2-2.8.6-1.gst.1.4.i386.rpm, but it is not an "official" Fed Hat package and conflicts with the one I have installed. I can force delete the older one, but it looks like over a hundred programs depend on it. Is it likely that the newer glib2 will hose any of those other apps, or can I safely install it? Thanks, -- Colin Brace Amsterdam ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] 2.3.7 needs help finding help
Hi all, I have 2.3.7 running now on my Ubuntu (Breezy) system. I installed it in /opt, hence the latest stable (2.2.8) is still on my system. I have the help subsytem installed (gimp-help-common 2+0.8-3, gimp-helpbrowser 2.2.8-2ubuntu6, gimp-help-en 2+0.8-3), and it works fine with 2.2.8, but 2.3.7 can' t load it. How do I enable 2.3.7 to find its help files? -- Colin Brace Amsterdam ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Python and Windows XP
On 2/21/06, Demetrius Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering if someone could point out how I am supposed to get the Gimp > 2.3.6 to recognize that I have python installed on the computer so that I > may be able to use py fu scripts I too am wondering. At my first attempt to compile 2.3.7, make spat back that it couldn't find "Python headers" and the only way forward was to run it with "--disable-python". I have gimp-python 2.2.8-2 installed. I thought maybe it needed a developer package, but "aptitude search gimp | grep python | grep dev" didn't turn up anything. -- Colin Brace Amsterdam ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Compiling 2.3.7 under FC4, configure can't find gtk2+2.8.12
Hi all, I hate having to bother this list with tiresome compile problems, but here goes: Earlier this week, I installed 2.3.7 under Ubuntu (Breezy). At the moment, I am trying to do the same under Fedora Core 4, but I am having less success. In particular, I keep getting this error message from configure: checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.8.8... no *** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why... *** The test program compiled, but did not run. This usually means *** that the run-time linker is not finding GTK+ or finding the wrong *** version of GTK+. If it is not finding GTK+, you'll need to set your *** LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or edit /etc/ld.so.conf to point *** to the installed location Also, make sure you have run ldconfig if that *** is required on your system *** *** If you have an old version installed, it is best to remove it, although *** you may also be able to get things to work by modifying LD_LIBRARY_PATH configure: error: Test for GTK+ failed. See the file 'INSTALL' for help. Initially, I installed 2.8.12 in /usr/local, as is my preference for newer, non-packaged versions. When that didn't work, I bit the bullet and removed the latest official package, 2.6.10, with sudo rpm -e --nodeps gtk2, and installed 2.8.12 in the default location, but that still didn't solve the problem. FWIW, I added /usr/local to /etc/ld.so.conf, and, yes, I run sudo ldconfig after installing the libraries. Something is going wrong, but what? I was able to install gtk2 2.8.12 in /usr/local and compile gimp 2.3.7 without this problem under Ubuntu, and without having to uninstall the older official releases, and I'd like to be able to do the same under Fedora. -- Colin Brace Amsterdam ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Compiling 2.3.7 under FC4, configure can't find gtk2+2.8.12
On 2/25/06, Tom Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > run "pkg-config --modversion gtk+-2.0" to see what version of GTK+ is > registered with pkg-config. OK: $ pkg-config --modversion gtk+-2.0 2.8.12 but: ../gimp-2.3.7/configure: [...] checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.8.8... no *** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why... [...] Very weird. -- Colin Brace Amsterdam ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Compiling 2.3.7 under FC4, configure can't find gtk2+2.8.12
On 2/25/06, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > set PKG_CONFIG_PATH so that pkg-config picks up glib and gtk+ from the > right locations. Ah, right, I changed that to /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/ to get glib to compile. Ok, so I now change it back to /usr/lib/pkgconfig/. Still no go. What am I missing? -- Colin Brace Amsterdam ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Re: Compiling 2.3.7 under FC4, configure can't find gtk2+2.8.12
Thanks to the assistance of gimp lister Tom this past weekend, I have now succeeded in installing 2.3.7 on Fedora. The main problem turned out be some obsolete .pc files in /usr/lib/pkgconfig related to some gtk2 dependencies, namely atk, glib, cairo, and pango, which I had installed in /usr/local. When I reversed the order of pkgconfig's search path : [EMAIL PROTECTED] lib]$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig I was eventually able to get 2.3.7 to compile. Without python, but I'll tackle that another time... Thanks again, Tom! -- Colin Brace Amsterdam ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Re: [GUG] Identifying Fonts
On 3/1/06, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You do not select content on the image, rather the text window dialog > pop up with your text in it (and the tool options parameters change > for that of the font used in the active layer). > But you have a point, the UI should have a way to indicate that, if > clicked, the existing text will be edited. Another problem is is that there is no visible indication that a text object is selected. When a text layer is active, the text object is displayed with a box around it, whether it is selected or not. Every time I try to move a text object, 75% of the time I end up moving the underlying canvas, and I have to keep undoing and clicking on the text object until I succeed in selecting *just it*. I go through this every time I create text, since inevitably the text is not positioned where I want it when I first add it. -- Colin Brace Amsterdam ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] recompiling 2.3.7 for FC5: config can't find libtiff
Hi all, I installed Fedora Core 5 yesterday and am recompiling 2.3.7. Alas, configure returns an error message: [...] checking for TIFFReadScanline in -ltiff... no checking for TIFFWriteScanline in -ltiff... no checking for TIFFFlushData in -ltiff34... no configure: error: *** Checks for TIFF libary failed. You can build without it by passing *** --without-libtiff to configure but you won't be able to use TIFFs then. However, libtiff is most definitely installed: $ rpm -q libtiff libtiff-3.7.4-3.2.1 Any ideas why configure isn't seeing it? -- Colin Brace Amsterdam ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] gui
On 3/23/06, Rhys Sage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok. So Ubuntu is recommended. How about a GUI? I can't > say I really care for either KDE or Gnome. I did see > one called Athene that looked pretty nice but I don't > know what it'd run on. Discussions like this quickly become pointless, since KDE vs Gnome vs whatever is largely a matter of personal preference (provided you are using modern hardware). In many cases you can switch between environments without even rebooting, so the best thing to do is to simply *use* one for awhile... -- Colin Brace Amsterdam ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] recompiling 2.3.7 for FC5: config can't find libtiff
On 3/23/06, Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i am wondering if you configure --without-libtiff what happens? How bizarre: $ ./configure --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.3.7 --without-libtiff [...] Building GIMP with prefix=/opt/gimp-2.3.7 GIMP Features: gimp-remote: no (XMU library not found) tiff:yes [...] -- Colin Brace Amsterdam ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] recompiling 2.3.7 for FC5: config can't find libtiff
I just finished the compile (with python support this time!), but alas no tiff support. So, something definitely got munged. > well, this really has the smell of a bug report. > > have you ever filed one before? Yes, just did: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335764 Care to add anything? -- Colin Brace Amsterdam ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] recompiling 2.3.7 for FC5: config can't find libtiff
On 3/24/06, Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > for your problem, i am wondering if you have libtiff-dev installed. i > mentioned this on the bug report as well. Yes, installing libtiff-devel fixed it. This requirement is also indicated in the INSTALL text. Sorry to have bothered the list... -- Colin Brace Amsterdam ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] 2.3.7 under Ubuntu: configure error: "too many arguments"
Hi all, I would like to recompile v2.3.7 for Ubuntu (Breezy) to include help. Unfortunately, configure gives this non-fatal error: [...] checking for GTKHTML2... ./configure: line 32824: test: too many arguments [...] Also, 'aptitude search gtkhtml' returns a dozen or so packages, some with version numbers, running from 1.3 to 7. I installed 'libgtkhtml-dev'; hope it is the right one. Thanks... -- Colin Brace Amsterdam ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] 2.3.7: xsane error: "failed to open device"
Hi all, On my Fedora Core 5 system, xsane 0.99 in standalone mode works fine with my scanner; it also works fine from within 2.2.10. But when I launch it from within 2.3.7, I get a peculiar error message: Failed to open device `gimp': Invalid argument Anyone have any idea what is going on? -- Colin Brace Amsterdam ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Re: 2.3.7: xsane error: "failed to open device"
On 3/31/06, Colin Brace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On my Fedora Core 5 system, xsane 0.99 in standalone mode works fine > with my scanner; it also works fine from within 2.2.10. But when I > launch it from within 2.3.7, I get a peculiar error message: > > Failed to open device `gimp': > Invalid argument Hi all, FYI: the package xsane-gimp was updated several days ago (current version 0.99-2.2) and this problem was fixed. -- Colin Brace Amsterdam ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Shortcuts for increasing and decreasing
On 4/15/06, Joshua Raphael Fuentes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, my problem is regarding the shortcuts for gimp 2.2. What I would > like to do is to have a shortcut for increasing /decreasing brush size , > radius and hardness. See: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=105466 -- Colin Brace Amsterdam ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] removing backgrounds
On 4/24/06, C. DeBerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can someone explain to me the process of removing the background color from my logo? It has this nasty white box around it, and looks horrible on colored paper/backgrounds. There are probably various ways to do this, but one way would be to use the the "select regions by color" tool (ctrl-o) . Select the background color and then just delete it. -- Colin Brace Amsterdam ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] where is gimpguru.org?
gimpguru.org has been down for a number of days now. I hope this is just temporary glitch; gimp.org/tutorials/ mirrors many but not all of Eric's tutorials... -- Colin Brace Amsterdam ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] slashdotted
[...] GIMP developer Øvind Kolås gave a public demonstration of the Generic Graphical Library (GEGL) on Friday at the Piksel 06 festival in Bergen, Norway. GEGL has long been slated to replace the core image processing framework of the GIMP, bringing with it entirely new data models and operations [...] http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/16/2221214 -- Colin Brace Amsterdam ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Can't recompose LAB: Specified layer # not found
Hi all, I have just been following this very simple tutorial using a LAB overlay technique: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15173919 These are the main steps: 5)Duplicate B layer, set "B Copy" to overlay (Opacity is 100%). 6)Merge both B layers (Image>Merge Visible Layers/CTRL-M) Choose Expand as necessary (though other options don't make a difference in this case) Hit Ok. 7)Repeat steps #4 through #6 for the "A" layer. However, after following these steps, when I click the "Recompose" command, I get an error message on the status line: Specified layer [some number] not found. If I skip the overlay steps, just decompose to LAB and recompose, it works OK. Any idea what is going wrong here? I am using v2.6.4 under F10. Thanks. - Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Can%27t-recompose-LAB%3A-Specified-layer---not-found-tp21839844p21839844.html Sent from the Gimp User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
