GIF license policy

2000-03-02 Thread Hubert Froehlich
We want to use gimp to transform cartographic vector data into GIF images for use in the internet. However, the rights on the GIF format are owned by Compuserve. AFAIK, any software *producing* GIF images (such as Photoshop and all that stuff) has to pay license fees to Compuserve. The software

Re: GIF license policy

2000-03-02 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 09:12:07 +0100, Hubert Froehlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >We want to use gimp to transform cartographic vector data into GIF >images for use in the internet. However, the rights on the GIF >format are owned by Compuserve. >AFAIK, any software *producing* GIF images (such

Re: GIF license policy

2000-03-02 Thread Michael Schumacher
Am Thu, 2 Mar 2000 schrieb Hubert Froehlich: > AFAIK, any software *producing* GIF images (such as Photoshop and all > that stuff) has to pay license fees to Compuserve. The software user, > then , has got the right to produce ANY amount of images. > > My question now: > > a) Is this informati

Install freefont and sharefont: How is it done?

2000-03-02 Thread Charles R. Tersteeg
I've tried to install these without success. I have to reinstall my 75 dpi just to get my desktop back to normal.. What would I have to as I have a rh6.2 system and the font rpms have an error in the script (which probably do no get them installed). Chuck

gDynText problem

2000-03-02 Thread Jakub Steiner
I am experiencing strange behaviour of the gDyntext plugin in the latest CVS version of GIMP. It renders an empty layer, very small, but enlarges on the amount of text. What made me not to report it a bug is that it works well on my other system which has rather same setup. Has anyone experien

Re: Install freefont and sharefont: How is it done?

2000-03-02 Thread Jon Winters
Hello, Everything you ever wanted to know about adding fonts to a redhat system can be found at the type euphoria site: http://fonts.linuxpower.org/ They also have more than 1300 free fonts for you to download and install. I don't think there are any RPMs to install Xfstt but there are easy i

Re: Install freefont and sharefont: How is it done?

2000-03-02 Thread Wandered Inn
Jon Winters wrote: > I don't think there are any RPMs to install Xfstt but there are easy > instructions to help you compile it: Actually there are, I got xfstt off of http://www.rpmfind.net/ -- Until later: Geoffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm afraid there will be more problems with W2K t

Re: GIF license policy

2000-03-02 Thread Hubert Froehlich
Kelly Lynn Martin wrote: > On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 09:12:07 +0100, Hubert Froehlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >We want to use gimp to transform cartographic vector data into GIF > >images for use in the internet. However, the rights on the GIF > >format are owned by Compuserve. > > >AFAIK, any s

error in guash on Gimp 1.1.14

2000-03-02 Thread Jim Lane
i've just installed the latest level og the guash plug-in on GIMP 1.1.14. when i try to start up the plug-in i get the following message: GLib-CRITICAL **: file ghash.c: line 99: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed. has anybody seen this before? or can anybody tell me what to do to fix this?

Re: Install freefont and sharefont: How is it done?

2000-03-02 Thread Jon Winters
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Wandered Inn wrote: > Jon Winters wrote: > > > I don't think there are any RPMs to install Xfstt but there are easy > > instructions to help you compile it: > > Actually there are, I got xfstt off of http://www.rpmfind.net/ How are those workin' for you? I seem to remember

Re: Install freefont and sharefont: How is it done?

2000-03-02 Thread Wandered Inn
Jon Winters wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Wandered Inn wrote: > > > Jon Winters wrote: > > > > > I don't think there are any RPMs to install Xfstt but there are easy > > > instructions to help you compile it: > > > > Actually there are, I got xfstt off of http://www.rpmfind.net/ > > How are th

Re: Install freefont and sharefont: How is it done?

2000-03-02 Thread Erunantion
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Charles R. Tersteeg wrote: > I've tried to install these without success. I have to reinstall my 75 > dpi just to get my desktop back to normal.. > > What would I have to as I have a rh6.2 system and the font rpms have an > error in the script (which probably do no get them

Re: Install freefont and sharefont: How is it done?

2000-03-02 Thread happygirl
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Erunantion wrote: > On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Charles R. Tersteeg wrote: > > > I've tried to install these without success. I have to reinstall my 75 > > dpi just to get my desktop back to normal.. > > > > What would I have to as I have a rh6.2 system and the font rpms have an >

Re: Install freefont and sharefont: How is it done?

2000-03-02 Thread Erunantion
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, happygirl wrote: > On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Erunantion wrote: > > > On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Charles R. Tersteeg wrote: > > > > > I've tried to install these without success. I have to reinstall my 75 > > > dpi just to get my desktop back to normal.. > > > > > > What would I have to

Re: Install freefont and sharefont: How is it done?

2000-03-02 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
>> > that looks something like :\ (I can't remember what it actually looks >> yes it does look that way and if I remember right it has :\unix ? >yeah, that'd be the line i got rid of. anyone out there know what this >actually does? or how? It is a line that tells your X server to load the font fr

Re: Install freefont and sharefont: How is it done?

2000-03-02 Thread Charles R. Tersteeg
Okay... I found two rpms freefont and sharefont. They install to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 directory but the script it funs after install is "type1inst -nogs -quiet". On rh6.x and using the latest type1inst, I had to use "type1inst -nogs -silent" to get it to work. I also had to hand modi

Re: Install freefont and sharefont: How is it done?

2000-03-02 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
>I have not tried the gimp-extra- fonts rpm as I have trouble downloading >it at home and can do so tomorrow when I'm at achool. IIRC that package is just freefonts + sharefont in one file. >Food for thought -- I can live with it like it is but for the future I'd >like to have an rpm to install