Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-03-02 Thread Bob Long
zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: > Nope. I also have a second computer runs Ubuntu 8.04 (I didn't upgrade > to 8.10 yet), that every time the system tell me to upgrade I would do > it (last time was in last week). But it still uses Gimp 2.5.4 > (sh?? an unstable version?). My standard Ubuntu 8.10

[Gimp-user] Fading to transparency tutorial?

2009-03-02 Thread json
Hi there everyone, Quite a while ago, I used a tutorial on GUG for fading an image to transparency, which I wanted to use as the top of a web page background. For clarification, you can look here at the image: http://personal.schwim.net/images/share/snowflake_background.jpg I'm trying to do the

Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-03-02 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Bob Long wrote: > zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: > >> Nope. I also have a second computer runs Ubuntu 8.04 (I didn't upgrade >> to 8.10 yet), that every time the system tell me to upgrade I would do >> it (last time was in last week). But it still uses Gimp 2.5.4 >> (

Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-03-02 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:37 AM, wrote: > Sven Neumann schrieb: >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 13:10 +, Chris Mohler wrote: >> >> GIMP 2.6 is out for five months already. There is really no good reason why your distribution does not offer it yet. Perhaps time to switch to a

Re: [Gimp-user] Fading to transparency tutorial?

2009-03-02 Thread Claus Cyrny
json wrote: > Hi there everyone, > > Quite a while ago, I used a tutorial on GUG for fading an image to > transparency, which I wanted to use as the top of a web page background. For > clarification, you can look here at the image: > > http://personal.schwim.net/images/share/snowflake_background.j

Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-03-02 Thread Bob Long
Chris Mohler wrote: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Bob Long wrote: [..] >> My standard Ubuntu 8.10 with all updates is running GIMP 2.4.5 (repeat: >> 2.4.5, not 2.5.4). > > Well, we're getting pretty off-topic here, but maybe you meant 8.04? > > $ cat /etc/issue > Ubuntu 8.10 > > $ aptitude sh

[Gimp-user] extract text in a rectangle from a jpg file

2009-03-02 Thread PoWah Wong
How to extract (get or copy) text in a rectangle from a jpg file? i.e. the jpg file has a rectangle which has some text (character strings). How to get those text to a text file? __ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywher

Re: [Gimp-user] extract text in a rectangle from a jpg file

2009-03-02 Thread Kevin Cozens
PoWah Wong wrote: > How to extract (get or copy) text in a rectangle from a jpg file? > i.e. the jpg file has a rectangle which has some text (character strings). > How to get those text to a text file? You need to take a look at some of the OCR programs like Tesseract (http://code.google.com/p