I'm forwarding this to the list to throw it open for more people's help
Doug
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Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] How To Install Gimp Help
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:11:10 +0000 (GMT)
From: PETER GOODCHILD <[email protected]>
To: doug <[email protected]>
Hi,Peter here,
I'm actually learning to make leaded stained glass windows. I have a SG
program called GlassEye 2000 Pro + this has a nifty feature called auto
trace. The SG pattern I'm using to make my front door sidelights comes
from a book. I used another SG program called Rapid Resizer to enlarge
the pattern. When I printed it out the outline, it had very jagged
edges. I'm about to teach myself trace cutting using scrap glass. One
places the glass directly on the pattern. Then uses the glass cutter...
to trace cut.
With the jagged edges not so great, need a nice clean line with a
uniform width. I looked into the problem a bit. Then thought I had a
printing problem called ink bleed. Anyway I went down this avenue
following this train of thought for a while, bit of a dead end.
I then found out how to use auto trace in GlassEye , bit like scaleable
vectors I've started to find out about. I looked at the pattern in the
book with a magnifying glass and I could see some jagged edges on the
outline. Rapid Resizer must be enlarging everything, including the
jaggedness. Auto trace sorts the problem out and will print out pattern
with nice clean lines.
Hope you are all still with me :) Anyway, bla, bla.
Along the way I contacted Protonic free expert tech support. The tech
told me not ink bleed, he refered me to a few links, one included
Inkscape, scaleable vectoring which I thought would come in handy. I
also saw another SG worker who said on a forum the PowerTrace function
in Corel Graphics Suite X4 home and student edition was awesome and
PowerTrace was used by top professional SG workers. I was up for buying
it, I asked Protonic for their opinion. They thought I'm be better off
saving my money, using The Gimp for bitmaps, the Inkscape for vectoring.
I wanted to make SG patterns from colour photos.
I know a little about computers, upgraded CPU sort of thing. Everest
diagnostic software.
The Gimp has a lot of seems to me computer speak terms, like compiling
and terms like that,. Which is just beyond me just goes right over my head.
In your experience will I be able to use The Gimp with Inkscape to make
b & w patterns from colour photos?
Regards,
Peter.
--- On *Tue, 22/12/09, doug /<[email protected]>/* wrote:
From: doug <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] How To Install Gimp Help
To: [email protected]
Date: Tuesday, 22 December, 2009, 12:21
Apologies, my intentions were misunderstood.
On 21/12/09 23:12, Martijn Weisbeek wrote:
> Does
> tar xvjf gimp-help-2.6.0-html-en.tar.bz2
> do anything for you?
What if this person is not a Linux user and not very fond of doing
things on the command line ?
I guess that if he does not like computer speak he might have
downloaded the wrong help package.
Fair enough. I'd assumed if he found and downloaded a linux package
he has some basic knowledge of the command line; and having
untarrred the file and seeing what was in it, people could give
further help.
Sorry if that was not the case.
Doug
Peter, if you are running GIMP on Windows you could try installing
a help package from this page:
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html
Kind regards,
Martijn
http://gimp.startpagina.nl <http://gimp.startpagina.nl/>
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:44 PM, doug <[email protected]
<http://uk.mc865.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>>
wrote:
Does
tar xvjf gimp-help-2.6.0-html-en.tar.bz2
do anything for you?
Doug
On 21/12/09 18:46, PETER GOODCHILD wrote:
Seasons Greetings,
I downloaded gimp-2.6.7. No help manual in it, I then
downloaded gimp-help-2.6.0-html-en.tar.bz2. I tried to open
it no luck. It is a bz2 compressed file format. Visited the
bz2 page it is all in computer speak, makes no sense to me at
all.
Please how do I install the help manual into Gimp?
Thanks.
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