Excellent - I also wondered if I could copy the the file into Gimp folder. But like I said - too naive on a computer so I was nervous to try anything. You are wonderfully kind - thanks again for your brilliant help. Going to try doing this tomorrow evening when I have some time.
Candice (totally overcast but hot and humid as any other regular Summery day in South Africa) >Hi Candice, Let me spell it out again with my sincere apologies to all the >non-HP GIMP users for boring them to tears but not eternally I hope! >On my HP ProBook 4730s I had indeed managed to install GIMP by first changing >the HP version of intl.dll into intl.bak. For further reference the GIMP >installer had created a head directory GIMP-2.0 in the C:/Program Files of my >HP. >To get the flavour of GIMP I just used it for some image manipulations I >routinely use with Photoshop on my old Dell, a rather expensive software which >cannot be transferred to my new HP. I was impressed by GIMP which is free-ware >after all. >Then of course I returned my HP to its original set-up by changing intl.bak >into intl.dll because I had found out with earlier attempts that the HP login >would no longer work without that file and had to be by-passed just to regain >control --- that depends how you customised your HP in the first place. Once >the HP login procedure is returned to normal the activation of Gimp fails. (At >once script-fu.exe cannot find something in that intl.dll library.) No use to >complain to HP. I got nowhere with HP support on the matter of their login >procedure for their ProBok S-series, whether some GIMP users might deem that >procedure "broken" or not. >I thought you would have to repeat the procedure used to install GIMP each >time you'd want to use GIMP. A bit of a pain... However Kevin Brubeck >Unhammer wondered if one could not circumvent GIMP's "plug-in" problem on the >HP by copying GIMP's intl.dll into any GIMP subdirectory containing a plug-in. >At least this couldn't interfere with anything but GIMP. Thus I copied the >intl.dll file from GIMP-2.0/bin into GIMP-2.0/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins where all >the plug-ins seem to be collected (including the script-fu.exe above) and >presto I was in business! The results of running again my previous tests were >just as expected BUT only a GIMP expert could tell us if this is the solution >of the HP problem. I have some doubt that it is that simple otherwise it would >have been already known... Thanks to Kevin anyway for his suggestion and >greetings from (wet) Sydney. René. >> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:14:31 +0100 >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> CC: [email protected] >> Subject: [Gimp-user] Startup problems >> >> Hello >> >> Thanks for your help. I was not able to access the net sooner so I am sorry >> for the late reply. I guess then what I need to do is (- please may you >> correct me if I have misunderstood your advice) >> >> 1. deinstall Gimp and all its components >> 2. open Windows system 32 file - find intl.dll - and then rename it to >> intl.bak >> 3. download and reinstall Gimp >> 4. Upon reattempt at installation of Gimp in theory, it should then not >> recognise or confuse System32's intl.dll (now called intl.bak) with its own >> thus installing itself correctly with all its extensions >> 5. reopen Windows32 system folder and rename intl.bak to the original >> intl.dll >> >> Hope I have it right? I can see how it should work if it is confusing HP's >> System32 intl.dll with it's own. >> >> One more question if you would oblige - do I have to do this -every time >> that I start up Gimp or just this once when installing it? >> >> Thanks so much for you time again. >> >> Candice -- NoviceGimper (via gimpusers.com) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
