Hi Jay, On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Jay Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/23/2009 10:04 AM, David Gowers wrote: >> Have you tried creating an 'Error Console' dockable? >> It normally catches such messages which would otherwise cause popups. >> >> David > > Thanks David, > > That did the trick. But... > > a) Now I have yet another window on my desktop whenever I run Gimp. Is > there any way to "hide" it? Why would you have another window? You know.. Dockables are called that because you can dock them :) Surely you already had some attached to your toolbox? Personally I have only two windows on my desktop, the image window and the toolbox (with lots of dockables attached). I'm not sure why you would have a multiplicity of windows if you could avoid it.
> > b) Is there any way to simply tell gimp to ignore these particular error > messages? No (short of editing the source and recompiling) > > c) Are these really proper error messages? What exactly is it > complaining about and why? Are the files that Photoshop created > defective in some way? Or have the standards changed? I don't know *exactly* what it is talking about, but, according to http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/tiff/TIFF6.pdf&ei=zRrxSaSVBJX0tAOT_-D3Cg&usg=AFQjCNFrxJb-bxA-_MzplqUU6YfaAwtVIw , MinSampleValue and MaxSampleValue are only to be used for statistical purposes and not to effect display or print in any way -- so I am guessing that warnings rather than errors should be given. I think it's quite possible that PS is creating defective files, as that part of the TIFF spec seems ill-defined. I don't really understand why GIMP is expecting 3; Intuitively I would expect it to expect 1. It's possible that this is a GIMP bug caused by copy+paste (probably from the code to handle MaxSampleValue, where in my limited understanding, expecting 3 is often sensible.) In any case, I recommend you file a bug report about it ( http://www.gimp.org/bugs ) David _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
