[Gimp-user] Install on Solaris 8

2002-01-24 Thread Jim Clark
Downloaded successfully, compiled successfully, and working fine. Except cannot open a png. Search, found the pnglib for Solaris. Downloaded and added the png library, went in properly to /usr/local/lib. But GIMP still cannot open a png. Can anyone offer a why not? -- Thanks-- Jim Clark

Re: [Gimp-user] Install on Solaris 8

2002-01-24 Thread Marco Wessel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You need to recompile The GIMP with the libpng before it can open pngs. Marco On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Jim Clark wrote: Downloaded successfully, compiled successfully, and working fine. Except cannot open a png. Search, found the pnglib for

[Gimp-user] how to correct optical distortions of wide-angle lenses?

2002-01-24 Thread Peter Buckenleib
Hi folks, is there a way to correct optical distortions of wide-angle lenses ( most annoing within architectural pics ) using gimp ? I'm dreaming of something like stetching the upper side, interpolate all the pixel-lines down to the bottom-line (which remains unstretched) and then cutting

Re: [Gimp-user] how to correct optical distortions of wide-anglelenses?

2002-01-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Peter Buckenleib wrote: is there a way to correct optical distortions of wide-angle lenses ( most annoing within architectural pics ) using gimp ? Peter, That's an interesting idea. Have you thought of doing the correction as you take the photograph? If you keep the

Re: [Gimp-user] how to correct optical distortions of wide-angle lenses?

2002-01-24 Thread Peter Buckenleib
Am Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2002 21:55 schrieb Rich Shepard: On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Peter Buckenleib wrote: is there a way to correct optical distortions of wide-angle lenses ( most annoing within architectural pics ) using gimp ? Peter, That's an interesting idea. Have you thought of

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP 1.2.3-pre2 and fonts question

2002-01-24 Thread Carol Spears
i wonder if Filters -Render -Dynamic Text or if you were to install the gimp-freetype plug-in (found at http://freetype.gimp.org -- be sure to get the tar ball and not the cvs branch!!) if these two methods of rendering fonts might work better from a remote machine. text tool sucks, imo. it

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP 1.2.3-pre2 and fonts question

2002-01-24 Thread Jeff Trefftzs
Tom - For things like lifting a person from a jpeg and putting s/he/it somewhere else, there's a good series of tutorials in Grokking The GIMP, available online and for html download. Follow the links from the GIMP's Xtns/Web Browser menu to get it. There's some really good ideas on using