Hi, I'm posting this again, since I really would like to check out the new features in Gimp 2.6.
As I posted a few weeks ago, Gimp 2.6.1 crashes each time I try to perform a filter, color adjustment, etc., so that I had to install 2.4.7 in order to have a working bitmap editor. This happened since I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10. Someone suggested that it might have to do with my outdated hardware (AMD K6 II/350 MHz), but since I don't have the money right now to buy a new computer, I would like to know if anyone has an idea what I could do to fix this problem. When running Gimp out of a shell, I am getting: "(script-fu:5142): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: gimp_wire_read(): error Illegal instruction" My guess is that it might have to do with GEGL, but on the other hand I am assuming that Synaptic would automatically install all the required packages. (I don't want to have to compile anything; if there's a fix for it & I need to install additional packages, I would prefer .deb files.) I did have the latest 'libgimp' installed (I downgraded to the version for Gimp 2.4.7 in the meantime), and I am not using compiz (as Chris asked me the last time I posted on this.) Especially after reading this very good & thorough review of Gimp 2.6, I would like to check out the Gimp's new possibilities. Two thing I am personally missing are a) 16-bit support, as well as b) better anti-aliasing. While there are workarounds to improve the latter, Gimp still doesn't output the quality of say, Photoshop. I especially become aware of this when using curves to get a chromium effect, or applying 'Lighting Effects', where I am frequently getting 'stripes' instead of smooth gradients. I don't know, though, how much this has been improved upon in Gimp 2.6. TIA, Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie :: Web: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. :: Fotos: http://photo.net/photodb/slideshow?folder_id=714471 ::. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
