Re : [Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)
Le 24.03.2004 01:59, Sven Neumann a écrit : Hi, John Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: In addition to CMYK the issue of ICC color profiles has been raised. Photoshop offers several profiles for e.g., coated paper, uncoated paper and so on. It is clumsy to develop in Gimp, and then transfer to

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread Kelly Martin
David Burren wrote: This is silly. The profiles would be for their specific machines, and would be useless with anyone else's (even with the same make hardware, as the knobs and dials would probably not be in "standard" positions). The choice of ink and paper stock are also factors. I'm not sayi

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread David Burren
Kelly Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My gf used to work for a large prepress company. They spent a > lot of money generating and validating matching profiles, and > they're not going to just give them to anyone. If you want them, > you pay for them. This is silly. The profiles would be

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread Kevin Myers
In my recent experience, ICC (or ICM or both?) profiles are included with a lot of newer hardware, and/or they can be downloaded from the manufacturer's web sites. That seems to be increasingly prevelant, at least as far as devices with Windows support are concerned. I don't know much about these

Re: [Gimp-user] menu font

2004-03-23 Thread Manish Singh
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 06:41:23PM -0600, Eric Pierce wrote: > To affect fonts in all GTK2 apps, I have the following in my ~/ > .gtkrc-2.0 file > > style "user-font" > { >font_name="century 12" > } > widget_class "*" style "user-font" The preferred way to do this is simply:

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread Kelly Martin
David Burren wrote: and need to be reprofiled regularly. Good print labs profile their devices and provide the profiles to their clients. It's not up to the Gimp to generate profiles, it's up to the Gimp to use them. My gf used to work for a large prepress company. They spent a lot of money gen

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, John Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In addition to CMYK the issue of ICC color profiles has been > raised. Photoshop offers several profiles for e.g., coated > paper, uncoated paper and so on. It is clumsy to develop in > Gimp, and then transfer to Photoshop just for profiling. >

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread David Burren
Kelly Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Someone would have to develop the profiles. The way Photoshop > does it is by buying printers and doing test prints and gathering > colorimetric data. The GIMP developers are short on people who > have access to colorimetry labs, not to mention lots of

Re: [Gimp-user] menu font

2004-03-23 Thread Eric Pierce
To affect fonts in all GTK2 apps, I have the following in my ~/ .gtkrc-2.0 file style "user-font" { font_name="century 12" } widget_class "*" style "user-font" Of course, you can change the font to whatever you want. > Hi, > > I use gimp2.0pre3 with debian/sid; the menu-font is too small but I

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread Kelly Martin
John Culleton wrote: I recognize that Gimp is web-centric, and that enhanced prepress capabilities are somewhere in the future. However some of us do use Gimp for images ending up on the printed page. And critics of Gimp and Open Source software in general jump on prepress issues as a point of

Re : [Gimp-user] Re: Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)
Hi, Colormanagement is something needed if you want to process digital photography. You need along the whole process to know in which colour space you are working and to work with calibrated devices. Without a proper colormanagement, your photos on the screen will never have the same colou

[Gimp-user] Re: Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 01:36:49PM -0500, John Culleton wrote: > I recognize that Gimp is web-centric, and that enhanced > prepress capabilities are somewhere in the future. However > some of us do use Gimp for images ending up on the printed > page. And critics of Gimp and Open Source software

[Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread John Culleton
I recognize that Gimp is web-centric, and that enhanced prepress capabilities are somewhere in the future. However some of us do use Gimp for images ending up on the printed page. And critics of Gimp and Open Source software in general jump on prepress issues as a point of criticism. In addit

[Gimp-user] Re: menu font

2004-03-23 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 06:52:27PM +0100, peter kupec wrote: > Hi, > > I use gimp2.0pre3 with debian/sid; the menu-font is too small but I cannot > find any knob to enlarge it. > Can I get any hint? > Thanks > i am fairly certain that the gimp gets instructions from the window manager about whic

Re : [Gimp-user] menu font

2004-03-23 Thread Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)
Le 23.03.2004 18:52, peter kupec a écrit : Hi, I use gimp2.0pre3 with debian/sid; the menu-font is too small but I cannot find any knob to enlarge it. Can I get any hint? Thanks Peter Peter, Maybe you have choosen the small theme in Preferences -> Interface ? -- Regards - Jean-Lu

[Gimp-user] menu font

2004-03-23 Thread peter kupec
Hi, I use gimp2.0pre3 with debian/sid; the menu-font is too small but I cannot find any knob to enlarge it. Can I get any hint? Thanks Peter ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Questions about Gimp 2.0

2004-03-23 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Tom, Tom Williams wrote: Anywho, I was wondering if/when the "Add Glow" and the "Perl-o-Tine" filters would be available, if ever, in Gimp 2.0? These are gimp-perl filters, and apparrently a pre-release of gimp-perl for 2.0 is planned to be made today or tomorrow. So I assume that GIMP::Perl-

Re: [Gimp-user] Script-fu problem -- how to load an image

2004-03-23 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mon, 22 Mär 2004, Sven Neumann wrote: > > Here the script: > > (define (script-fu-fileload filein) > >(gimp-message-set-handler 1) > >; Create an img and a layer > >(gimp-message "1") > >(gimp-message filein) > >(set! my-image (gimp-file-load 1 filein filein)) > >(gimp-me