On Monday 12 April 2004 12:50 am, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > "Joao S. O. Bueno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So far, all you need seems to resolve if the plug-in > > can just remember the last values used. > > > > I will see for that. Meanwhile, feel free to check > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138583 > > and add your comments - it is were I am keeping track > > of the enhancements I plan to make for the postscript > > plug-in. > Noted. I am even willing to hard code a different set of default values if that is available.
> None of your enhancement solve the real problem here > which is that Postscript is the wrong file format. GIMP > will never be able to handle Postscript files good enough > that one would attempt to use GIMP to open and manipulate > them. With your changes, GIMP will be able to create > better Postscript files, but that still doesn't make > Postscript the right format for storing scanned image > data. > > Perhaps it would be better to remove that kludge of > calling GS to be able to open Postscript files and make > the postscript plug-in write-only. Way too many users are > tricked into believing that GIMP would be able to > manipulate Postscript files. Well, I use Gimp and its Postscript plug-in in the following manner: A. I scan a page of music with Xsane, saving the result as .ps. B. I bring the page into Gimp with my favorite valuesb (see earlier post.) C. I modify the image with Gimp doing things like: 1. Cut and paste. 2. Resize page. 3. Rotate the page a fraction of a degree to correct for misalignment. 4. Adjust curve to minimize gray areas caused by the book not lying flat on the scanner. D. I save the result with zero offset as an eps image. Now I could of course scan to an pnm or png image instead of Postscript. (I could still save as Postscript from Gimp.) Which would be preferable for input to Gimp, pnm or png? (In earlier Gimps I could of course scan directly from Xsane into Gimp but this option disappeared with Gimp 1.3/2.0 and an early reappearance seems unlikely. ) The resulting EPS file will eventually be combined with other files of a similar nature using TeX and PSUtils to set up a booklet. For years I have used plain TeX and the EPS format. If I change to pdftex then my format choices are (currently) pdf, png, and jpeg. My library of several hundred scanned pages would have to be converted to pdf. As a point of interest, some pages in my workflow are not scanned but are created by the mup music typesetting program. These are also in PostScript form. Since they are true typeset PostScript and not a bitmapped image they are about 10% as large as the comparable scanned image presented as a ps file. To summarize, I can scan to png or pnm instead of PostScript and import that into Gimp. But I need eps output for my present method. If I switch to pdftex then I could utilize png output. Are there advantages to using e.g., png throughout? -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
