Re: [Gimp-user] Progressive jpg creation

2015-02-25 Thread Mark Bourne
JiminSA wrote: I am trying to save some jpg files as Progressive as opposed to Baseline and believe that Gimp will allow me to do so if I have the Progressive checkbox checked in Advanced Options. I am running Gimp 2.8. Problem: I cannot find the Advanced Options The option is in the advanced o

Re: [Gimp-user] Borderless photo not correct

2015-01-18 Thread Mark Bourne
Tikiman wrote: Hi Mark ,many thanks for the data and I have followed your information and have altered the ratio to 3:2 and the paper size remains at 4 x 6 and I am now printing on this size of photo paper corectly as it has achieved the desired result. So now that this has been resolved I will m

Re: [Gimp-user] Borderless photo not correct

2015-01-11 Thread Mark Bourne
Tikiman wrote: Tikiman wrote: What are the dimensions of the photo? Many digital cameras produce images with a 4:3 ratio, which doesn't exactly fit the 3:2 ratio of 6x4 paper. Either a border has to be left along the shorter edges or part of the image has to be cropped from the longer edges. I'm

Re: [Gimp-user] Borderless photo not correct

2015-01-10 Thread Mark Bourne
Tikiman wrote: Hello to all I am a very new user of Linux and the supplied Gimp program. I tried out my printer (Canon Pixma MG5550) in gthumb and Gimp by printing a borderless 6 x 4 photo. I changed the settings in the print tab to read Glossy photo paper and size as borderless 6 x 4 and also th

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem saving in PNG format

2014-12-09 Thread Mark Bourne
John Williams wrote: Hi, I have been using GIMP to save image files in the .png format for many years. I recently upgraded to GIMP 2.8 and I cannot seem to save/export the image files. This is not about what kind of command I am using or whether or not the user interface is good or bad. Whe

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP for Mac OS X

2014-09-28 Thread Mark Bourne
coatli wrote: No. See 'OS X' section: http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ Chris Hi Chris, thank you so much for your reply! I did manage to successfully download and install the Gimp for Mac OS X; (the torrent download didn't work, so i did follow this link.) however, the help manual did not ins

Re: [Gimp-user] Editing a saved xcf file with layers

2014-09-05 Thread Mark Bourne
Debbie Miller wrote: Hello, I created a image using a few layers. It has a background, text and image layer. I saved the image with the xcf extension and then exported it to a png so I could use it on my website. I need to change the text on the original image. When I open the image xcf file I

Re: [Gimp-user] Can´t install GIMP 2.9

2014-08-21 Thread Mark Bourne
Jehan Pagès wrote: Hi, On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 8:52 AM, pelayoglezfoto wrote: Hi. I´m Pelayo, a pro photographer from the north of Spain. I´m trying to install GIMP 2.9 on elementaryOS (debian based), but it´s being impossible. I´m sure i´m using the correct ppa's, but every time I try to inst

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble opening JPG files with black features

2014-08-21 Thread Mark Bourne
Michael Schumacher wrote: On 20.08.2014 23:00, Mark Bourne wrote: Attachments: * http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/146/original/052.JPG I realise C210LUV has solved the immediate problem by installing the 64-bit version of a different build, but for what it's worth I am NOT ab

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble opening JPG files with black features

2014-08-20 Thread Mark Bourne
C210LUV wrote: Before deleting your EXIF data, can you post an example image that can be tested by others? Sorry this took so long, was trying to figure a way to reduce the size of the image without being able to use GIMP, so I just did an arbitrary crop of one of the images in question. Attach

Re: [Gimp-user] FAQ: Does the GIMP license permit to do x?

2014-06-10 Thread Mark Bourne
IANAL, but... Since GIMP is released under GPL, would it not be better to point to existing info and FAQs (e.g. http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html) rather than reinventing it? Whatever is done, surely it needs to be carefully checked (possibly with legal advice) to ensure it's consistent w

Re: [Gimp-user] UK English help won't open

2014-04-02 Thread Mark Bourne
Richard Endecott wrote: Hello GIMP People, I hope this gets to the right place. Can someone who knows please pass on to the right person if necessary. I installed 2.8.10 as I am trying to encourage a group of old English digital photography grumpies who aren't willing to push deep into their po

Re: [Gimp-user] Help not working - installed

2014-03-30 Thread Mark Bourne
violetriver wrote: I downloaded the HELP package from http://mirror.umd.edu/gimp/gimp/help/windows/2.8/2.8.1/ and installed it. When I try to use it in GIMP I still get the message that I don't have HELP installed. The language of the help package has to match the user interface language (set

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP ignores dpi?

2014-02-21 Thread Mark Bourne
Phillip Susi wrote: If I create an image and double the dpi to 180, GIMP shows it in the same size at 100% zoom as if I hadn't doubled the dpi. Isn't this a bug? Doubling the dpi ( and keeping the same resolution ) should make it display at half the size. DPI is pretty much irrelevant for dis

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp users matter

2014-01-15 Thread Mark Bourne
Helen wrote: And the comments I get about not really having an image that I think I have (several people say variations of that) is completely over my head. And wonder whether it has a practical significance or just a semantic one. It depends what format you're exporting to and what properties

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp users matter

2014-01-14 Thread Mark Bourne
Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:27 AM, Ofnuts wrote: Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: This is something I would expect the "Save for Web" plugin to do, not the stock exporter. "Web" is a bit restrictive: games, wallpapers, pictures in documents... Restrictive? To me it's jus

Re: [Gimp-user] help using fonts

2014-01-07 Thread Mark Bourne
Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:19 PM, leztec wrote: im not very pc lol when i look at the property's of the font files that don't work they just say they are a 'Font File' . if it helps the file logos in question look like a a4 paper with a 'T' on it. You can tell us fi

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling on Center; Add/Subtract with Brushes

2014-01-07 Thread Mark Bourne
SirCrow wrote: (Why do I have to type in that challenge thing every time? Doesn't the system know it's me?) You shouldn't have to. Once you've subscribed to the mailing list, and replied to the confirmation message once, you should be able to just send emails to the list. Are you sure you'

Re: [Gimp-user] Save v Export behaviour

2013-12-06 Thread Mark Bourne
Brendan Scott wrote: On 12/05/2013 12:28 AM, Simon Budig wrote: Without a hint from you we're 100% in the "Do-What-I-Mean-Button" ballpark which is not really helping with the "more thought" we might need. I gathered from your mail, that you lost work because the save/export distinction conditi

Re: [Gimp-user] OS X, GIMP 2.8.8-2.8.10: brush outline not displayed

2013-12-01 Thread Mark Bourne
Maurizio Loreti wrote: Hello, list - I have a severe problem that shows itself under OS X (10.9 "Mavericks") both with GIMP 2.8.8 and with 2.8.10; 2.8.6 behaves correctly. The problem happens both on my iMac and on my MacBook Pro. I have installed on my computers the distribution "GIMP on OS X

Re: [Gimp-user] English (UK) help installed to unrecognised location

2013-10-21 Thread Mark Bourne
Jernej Simončič wrote: On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 21:40:23 +0100, Mark Bourne wrote: It appears the UK English help installs to a folder (en_GB) not recognised by GIMP. Not sure if this affects other operating systems as well, or just Windows. No, if you wish that GIMP would recognize UK English

[Gimp-user] English (UK) help installed to unrecognised location

2013-10-20 Thread Mark Bourne
I've just installed GIMP 2.8.6 and the English (United Kingdom) user manual from: http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ on Windows Vista. Initially, the local help was not working, and Edit > Preferences > Help System indicated "The user manual is not installed locally". After a bit of searching, I

Re: [Gimp-user] Error.

2012-11-02 Thread Mark Bourne
Sleepingbeautiie - for...@gimpusers.com wrote: On Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:14:27 +0100, Sleepingbeautiie wrote: And, yeah - that stuff's basically gone away since I've re-installed it again, but now it says it has to do something with the GIMP shortcut in my "bin" folder, so I thought 'Oh, okay...

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing difficutlies

2012-10-18 Thread Mark Bourne
lost_shinigami wrote: Hi everyone, I have another problem! I made an A6-file with pictures I wanted to print. I have A6 photo paper for this and I have set all my printer related stuff to A6 format. However, when I print I see my image has been moved to the left so I only see half of my image

Re: [Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.7.5 released

2012-04-08 Thread Mark Bourne
The Windows binaries linked from the GIMP site (http://www.gimp.org/downloads/) are at http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/. It takes a bit of digging to find the development builds (only the stable and old versions are obvious), but GIMP 2.7.5 and 2.8.0-RC1 are there. From http://gimp-win.source

Re: [Gimp-user] Why does saves as JPG default to quality 85?

2012-03-23 Thread Mark Bourne
Keith Purtell wrote: I suppose the reason I didn't go the preview route is that I'm a bit annoyed that GIMP doesn't remember that I've changed that setting to 75 every single time I've made a JPG. Now that you suggest it, I could run a test and see if GIMP's apparent 85 default really does/doesn'

Re: [Gimp-user] Installing gimp 2.7.5

2012-03-14 Thread Mark Bourne
Michael Schumacher wrote: Von: Nathan A simple question. I have gimp 2.6.12 installed in WinXP SP3. Do I need to remove it before installing gimp 2.7.5? No, but I'd make sure to customize the installation directory of GIMP 2.7.5 and keep 2.6 installed - there's a customize button in the in

Re: [Gimp-user] Windows 2000 Support?

2012-02-02 Thread Mark Bourne
jernej|s-gmane wrote: On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:13:55 +, Mark Bourne wrote: While testing another issue, I found that GIMP 2.7.4 fails to load correctly on Windows 2000. http://www.gimp.org/windows/ says "GIMP should run on any NT-based version of Windows (NT4, 2000, XP or Vista).&quo

[Gimp-user] Windows 2000 Support?

2012-02-01 Thread Mark Bourne
While testing another issue, I found that GIMP 2.7.4 fails to load correctly on Windows 2000. http://www.gimp.org/windows/ says "GIMP should run on any NT-based version of Windows (NT4, 2000, XP or Vista)." Is that statement still correct, or has support for pre-XP been dropped? No problem for