Re: GIF license policy
On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 09:12:07 +0100, Hubert Froehlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: We want to use gimp to transform cartographic vector data into GIF images for use in the internet. However, the rights on the GIF format are owned by Compuserve. AFAIK, any software *producing* GIF images (such as Photoshop and all that stuff) has to pay license fees to Compuserve. The software user, then , has got the right to produce ANY amount of images. I would strongly urge you to use some other format if you're concerned about the legal BS that surrounds the LZW patent. PNG should will work nicely for your purposes. Kelly
Re: GIF license policy
Am Thu, 2 Mar 2000 schrieb Hubert Froehlich: AFAIK, any software *producing* GIF images (such as Photoshop and all that stuff) has to pay license fees to Compuserve. The software user, then , has got the right to produce ANY amount of images. My question now: a) Is this information correct? b) what about GIMP? How is the license policy concerning GIMP? To be concrete: We want to produce really HUGE AMOUNTS of GIF ( GIF 89a , to be precise, NOT the OLD GIF87a ) pictures NOT AT ALL FOR PRIVATE USE and don't want ot get any license trouble ... c) If we need any extra license: where to get it and what does it cost? a) and c) : Take a look at http://burnallgifs.org/ b) You can't use gimp to produce gifs if you don't live in a country where the LZW patent doesn't matter. Michael
Re: Install freefont and sharefont: How is it done?
Jon Winters wrote: On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Wandered Inn wrote: Jon Winters wrote: I don't think there are any RPMs to install Xfstt but there are easy instructions to help you compile it: Actually there are, I got xfstt off of http://www.rpmfind.net/ How are those workin' for you? I seem to remember I couldn't get them to work or something. If they do indeed work then that is the way to go for a system that uses rpms. They are working just fine. FYI: RH 5.2, substantially upgraded, running 2.2.14 kernel, GIMP 1.0.4. GIMP was installed via rpm as well. -- Jon Winters http://www.obscurasite.com/ OpenVerse http://www.openverse.org/ -- Until later: Geoffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm afraid there will be more problems with W2K than there were with Y2K...
Re: Install freefont and sharefont: How is it done?
I have not tried the gimp-extra- fonts rpm as I have trouble downloading it at home and can do so tomorrow when I'm at achool. IIRC that package is just freefonts + sharefont in one file. Food for thought -- I can live with it like it is but for the future I'd like to have an rpm to install it. How do I change that one little thing in the script. of Maybe make rpms for other fonts??? http://www.rpm.org/ for RPM, or /usr/doc/HOWTO for font things. In general, put all new fonts in a dir, run the tools to creat fonts.dir (and the other file I can not remember, I am away from Unix machines now), then change font server or X server config. The important point is to not mix, so package systems never find a dir with data that it did not put there. Second, I have been doing some reading on RedHat and they no longer use xset. They use chkfontpath to add true type fonts to the font server xset is a tool to change some X server things. You can use it too, I did. (it's no longer part of XF86). That seemed to work fine, but freefont and sharefont are not tt are they These true type fonts are then stored Freefont and sharefont are Type 1, IIRC. in /usr/share/fonts/truetype and you use ttmkfdir after you've added more fonts. TT is what MS Windows uses, for example. You can get loads of free TT fonts from the net, and buy some quality CDs. Most of apps come with extra fonts, for example maybe your printer CD includes some fonts, or a program that includes more TT fonts. Type1 are harder to find. GSR
