Re: [Gimp-user] Script-fu problem -- how to load an image

2004-03-23 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mon, 22 Mär 2004, Sven Neumann wrote:
  Here the script:
  (define (script-fu-fileload filein)
 (gimp-message-set-handler 1)
 ; Create an img and a layer
 (gimp-message 1)
 (gimp-message filein)
 (set! my-image (gimp-file-load 1 filein filein))
 (gimp-message 2))
  
  (script-fu-register script-fu-fileload
Toolbox/Script-Fu/Norb/fileload
Testscript
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Norbert Preining
2004.03.17

SF-FILENAME filein ./dummy.tiff)
  
  
  But I cannot get it to run without error:
  $ gimp --no-data -i --verbose -b '(script-fu-fileload \test.tif\)
 
 You need to pass all parameters to your script. You can use the PDB
 Browser to check how the script is actually registered. GIMP added a
 run-mode parameter for you. So please try this command-line instead:
 
  gimp --no-data -i --verbose -b '(script-fu-fileload 0 \test.tif\)

Same same unfortunately:
$ gimp --no-data -i --verbose -b '(script-fu-fileload 0 \test.tif\)'
This is a development version of The GIMP.
Debug messages may appear here.

INIT: gimp_load_config
Parsing '/etc/gimp/1.3/gimprc'
Parsing '/home/norbert/.gimp-1.3/gimprc'
gimp_composite: use=yes, verbose=no
supported by gimp_composite: +mmx +sse -sse2 -3dnow -altivec -vis
INIT: gimp_initialize
INIT: gimp_real_initialize
INIT: gimp_restore
INIT: gimp_real_restore
Starting extension: 'extension_script_fu'
script-fu: 1

batch command: experienced an execution error.

So this didn't help, hmm.

Best wishes

Norbert

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[Gimp-user] menu font

2004-03-23 Thread peter kupec
Hi,

I use gimp2.0pre3 with debian/sid; the menu-font is too small but I cannot 
find any knob to enlarge it.
Can I get any hint?
Thanks

Peter

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Re : [Gimp-user] menu font

2004-03-23 Thread Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)
Le 23.03.2004 18:52, peter kupec a écrit :
Hi,

I use gimp2.0pre3 with debian/sid; the menu-font is too small but I
cannot
find any knob to enlarge it.
Can I get any hint?
Thanks
Peter
Peter,

Maybe you have choosen the small theme in Preferences - Interface ?

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[Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread John Culleton
I recognize that Gimp is web-centric, and that enhanced 
prepress capabilities are somewhere in the future. However 
some of us do use Gimp for images ending up on the printed 
page. And critics of Gimp and Open Source software in 
general jump on prepress issues as a point of criticism. 

In addition to CMYK the issue of ICC color profiles has been 
raised.  Photoshop offers several profiles for e.g., coated 
paper, uncoated paper and so on. It is clumsy to develop in 
Gimp, and then transfer to Photoshop just for profiling. 
What are the prospects of doing something in this area? Is 
any of it on the agenda?
-- 
John Culleton
Able Typesetters and Indexers
http://wexfordpress.com
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[Gimp-user] Re: Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 01:36:49PM -0500, John Culleton wrote:
 I recognize that Gimp is web-centric, and that enhanced 
 prepress capabilities are somewhere in the future. However 
 some of us do use Gimp for images ending up on the printed 
 page. And critics of Gimp and Open Source software in 
 general jump on prepress issues as a point of criticism. 
 
 In addition to CMYK the issue of ICC color profiles has been 
 raised.  Photoshop offers several profiles for e.g., coated 
 paper, uncoated paper and so on. It is clumsy to develop in 
 Gimp, and then transfer to Photoshop just for profiling. 
 What are the prospects of doing something in this area? Is 
 any of it on the agenda?

i am not certain what all color profiling needs.  i have been following
lcms mail list and still do not understand it.

i have been able to use gimp and templates to make web pages and i have
planned to make LaTeX pages, however my time seems to be almost up.

carol.gimp.org is down right now -- for whatever reason, but i put a
screenshot of a color dialog that has appeared in the new gimp.  i am
not certain if it meets your needs, but i would be curious to know how
it fails to.

http://www.gimp.org/~carol/files/colorselector.png

the way to get this dialog in your gimp would be via the dialogs menu;
it is called Colors.  as you can see from my screenshot, it is
dockable.

truthfully, if you can print an html template you can easily print a
LaTeX document.  if you would be interested in seeing my scripts
(python) send me a note and i will provide them for you.

carol

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Re : [Gimp-user] Re: Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)
Hi,

Colormanagement is something needed if you want to process digital  
photography. You need along the whole process to know in which colour  
space you are working and to work with calibrated devices. Without a  
proper colormanagement, your photos on the screen will never have the  
same colours you see when you get them, and the prints you will get  
(with your inkjet printer, a minilab or any process) will never have  
the same colours you have seen (and adjusted) with the picture  
processing tool.

You can read some basics about colormanagement in the following paper:

http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/c9fe.htm

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- Jean-Luc
Le 23.03.2004 20:26, Carol Spears a écrit :
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 01:36:49PM -0500, John Culleton wrote:
I recognize that Gimp is web-centric, and that enhanced
prepress capabilities are somewhere in the future. However
some of us do use Gimp for images ending up on the printed
page. And critics of Gimp and Open Source software in
general jump on prepress issues as a point of criticism.
In addition to CMYK the issue of ICC color profiles has been
raised.  Photoshop offers several profiles for e.g., coated
paper, uncoated paper and so on. It is clumsy to develop in
Gimp, and then transfer to Photoshop just for profiling.
What are the prospects of doing something in this area? Is
any of it on the agenda?
i am not certain what all color profiling needs.  i have been  
following
lcms mail list and still do not understand it.

i have been able to use gimp and templates to make web pages and i  
have
planned to make LaTeX pages, however my time seems to be almost up.

carol.gimp.org is down right now -- for whatever reason, but i put a
screenshot of a color dialog that has appeared in the new gimp.  i am
not certain if it meets your needs, but i would be curious to know how
it fails to.
http://www.gimp.org/~carol/files/colorselector.png

the way to get this dialog in your gimp would be via the dialogs menu;
it is called Colors.  as you can see from my screenshot, it is
dockable.
truthfully, if you can print an html template you can easily print a
LaTeX document.  if you would be interested in seeing my scripts
(python) send me a note and i will provide them for you.
carol

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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread Kelly Martin
John Culleton wrote:

I recognize that Gimp is web-centric, and that enhanced 
prepress capabilities are somewhere in the future. However 
some of us do use Gimp for images ending up on the printed 
page. And critics of Gimp and Open Source software in 
general jump on prepress issues as a point of criticism. 

In addition to CMYK the issue of ICC color profiles has been 
raised.  Photoshop offers several profiles for e.g., coated 
paper, uncoated paper and so on. It is clumsy to develop in 
Gimp, and then transfer to Photoshop just for profiling. 
What are the prospects of doing something in this area? Is 
any of it on the agenda?
Someone would have to develop the profiles.  The way Photoshop does it is by 
buying printers and doing test prints and gathering colorimetric data.  The GIMP 
developers are short on people who have access to colorimetry labs, not to 
mention lots of printers.

A lot of the processes that go into prepress are tied up in patent and trade 
secret law.  Getting those processes into the GIMP will be no easy task.

Kelly

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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread David Burren

Kelly Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Someone would have to develop the profiles.  The way Photoshop
 does it is by buying printers and doing test prints and gathering
 colorimetric data.  The GIMP developers are short on people who
 have access to colorimetry labs, not to mention lots of printers.
 
 A lot of the processes that go into prepress are tied up in patent
 and trade secret law.  Getting those processes into the GIMP will
 be no easy task.

This is a furphy.  Generating the profiles is quite different from
using them.  There are existing libraries (e.g. lcms) to convert
between colour spaces (defined by profiles) and there's even a Gimp
plug-in to do this.  There is even software for generating profiles
for printers/scanners/etc (not part of the Gimp, but it doesn't have
to be).

For accurate colour work you typically need to profile your own
devices, as each has a slightly different colour response (e.g. for
a printer it depends on the driver settings, the ink, and the paper
choices).  Monitors in particular constantly change their behaviour
and need to be reprofiled regularly.  Good print labs profile their
devices and provide the profiles to their clients.
It's not up to the Gimp to generate profiles, it's up to the Gimp
to use them.

Unfortunately Gimp has a way to go before it has a concept of your
monitor colour space (and dynamically converting displayed images
into that colour space) and a colour space for each image.  This
is something that Photoshop (and most of the other Adobe software)
does very well.  The Gimp has a plain model where there is only one
colour space: your monitor's.  Everything is dealt with as just RGB
(disregarding the HSV/etc composition/decomposition feature) and
sent to your monitor as-is.  I think a more-sophisticated model is
required to support a colour-managed workflow (and things like
16-bit support, CMYK, L*a*b, etc are just part of that).

Other projects like CinePaint (nee FilmGimp) are making progress
on this.  Hopefully the Gimp will catch up.  But I don't think
patent and trade secret law has much to do with it.
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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi,

John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 In addition to CMYK the issue of ICC color profiles has been 
 raised.  Photoshop offers several profiles for e.g., coated 
 paper, uncoated paper and so on. It is clumsy to develop in 
 Gimp, and then transfer to Photoshop just for profiling. 
 What are the prospects of doing something in this area? Is 
 any of it on the agenda?

GIMP 2.0 comes with a color proof display filter that uses ICC color
profiles to simulate a proof on your monitor. Support for such filters
is new in 2.0 and for the future it is planned to integrate display
filter modules better into the workflow.


Sven
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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread Kelly Martin
David Burren wrote:

and need to be reprofiled regularly.  Good print labs profile their
devices and provide the profiles to their clients.
It's not up to the Gimp to generate profiles, it's up to the Gimp
to use them.
My gf used to work for a large prepress company.  They spent a lot of money 
generating and validating matching profiles, and they're not going to just give 
them to anyone.  If you want them, you pay for them.

That's where the trade secret law comes in.

Kelly

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Re: [Gimp-user] menu font

2004-03-23 Thread Manish Singh
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 06:41:23PM -0600, Eric Pierce wrote:
 To affect fonts in all GTK2 apps, I have the following in my ~/
 .gtkrc-2.0 file
 
 style user-font
 {
font_name=century 12
 }
 widget_class * style user-font

The preferred way to do this is simply:

gtk-font-name = century 12

in ~/.gtkrc-2.0.

Note that this will be overridden by an XSettings manager, like gnome-session,
so if you're running that you need to change it in the Gnome preferences.

Also, a lot of people have a misconfigured dpi setting for the X server,
which you can override with the Xft.dpi XResource (or Gnome preferences,
again).

-Yosh
 
 Of course, you can change the font to whatever you want.
  Hi,
 
  I use gimp2.0pre3 with debian/sid; the menu-font is too small but I cannot
  find any knob to enlarge it.
  Can I get any hint?
  Thanks
 
  Peter
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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread Kevin Myers
In my recent experience, ICC (or ICM or both?) profiles are included with a
lot of newer hardware, and/or they can be downloaded from the manufacturer's
web sites.  That seems to be increasingly prevelant, at least as far as
devices with Windows support are concerned.  I don't know much about these
profiles, but it appears that these can be used across multiple
applications.  Under Windows, files with .icc and .icm extensions are
normally installed under the %windir%\system32\spool\drivers\color
directory.  Right now, there are about 50 of those files installed on one of
my machines, including a significant number that appear to be for hardware
that I don't even own.

My first conclusion is that a signifcant number of color profiles appear to
now be either included with hardware (such as monitors, scanners, and
printers), included with various applications (e.g Corel Draw), and/or
included with the Windows OS.  My second conclusion is that it seems
reasonable that the Gimp *might* be able to use these, since they don't
appear to be application-specific.  However, I don't know anything about the
format or content of those files, nor how to go about selecting and using
the profile that is appropriate for a particular device.  So, I don't know
whether these same files might be usable under Linux for example, nor how
difficult it might be to enable use of them from the gimp.  Mainly I just
wanted to offer these observations in case they might be applicable to the
availability issue.

s/KAM


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 David Burren wrote:

  and need to be reprofiled regularly.  Good print labs profile their
  devices and provide the profiles to their clients.
  It's not up to the Gimp to generate profiles, it's up to the Gimp
  to use them.

 My gf used to work for a large prepress company.  They spent a lot of
money
 generating and validating matching profiles, and they're not going to just
give
 them to anyone.  If you want them, you pay for them.

 That's where the trade secret law comes in.

 Kelly

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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread David Burren

Kelly Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 My gf used to work for a large prepress company.  They spent a
 lot of money generating and validating matching profiles, and
 they're not going to just give them to anyone.  If you want them,
 you pay for them.

This is silly.  The profiles would be for their specific machines,
and would be useless with anyone else's (even with the same make
hardware, as the knobs and dials would probably not be in standard
positions).  The choice of ink and paper stock are also factors.
I'm not saying the prepress company wouldn't do it, just that I
think it would be a completely silly reason for not supplying the
target profile.

Even if they did not want to provide the final profiles, if they
want any chance of supporting a digital colour-managed workflow
they would have to accept files tagged with other profiles (e.g.
AdobeRGB, sRGB, ProPhotoRGB, various CMYK colour spaces, etc) and
do the conversion in-house.

One of the labs I deal with has its own intermediate colour space
that it gets us to convert to, so internally they can manage the
choice of printer/paper/etc for each job and update the target
profiles whenever they calibrate the machines (without having to
send them out to all the clients).

Those intermediate colour spaces should be available to the Gimp
(although there _are_ copyright considerations with the profiles).
The format of these ICC profiles is defined in a standard, and the
lcms library already knows how to deal with them.

Cheers
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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread Kelly Martin
David Burren wrote:

This is silly.  The profiles would be for their specific machines,
and would be useless with anyone else's (even with the same make
hardware, as the knobs and dials would probably not be in standard
positions).  The choice of ink and paper stock are also factors.
I'm not saying the prepress company wouldn't do it, just that I
think it would be a completely silly reason for not supplying the
target profile.
Indeed.  Their clients (Fortune 500 companies, every last one of them) pay 
dearly for them to develop exact color matching profiles that match the specific 
printing presses, stock, and inks they use.

Kelly

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Re : [Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions

2004-03-23 Thread Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)
Le 24.03.2004 01:59, Sven Neumann a écrit :
Hi,

John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

In addition to CMYK the issue of ICC color profiles has been
raised.  Photoshop offers several profiles for e.g., coated
paper, uncoated paper and so on. It is clumsy to develop in
Gimp, and then transfer to Photoshop just for profiling.
What are the prospects of doing something in this area? Is
any of it on the agenda?
GIMP 2.0 comes with a color proof display filter that uses ICC color
profiles to simulate a proof on your monitor. Support for such filters
is new in 2.0 and for the future it is planned to integrate display
filter modules better into the workflow.
I've used the colour proof display filter with profiles I built with an  
eye one spectrophotometer from GretagMacbeth. This allows be at least  
to have the right colours on the screen while the photos I get from my  
digital slr camera. This is one step in the right direction. But only  
the display is affected: the output is left unmodified.

There is also the need (with digital photography in mind and this is a  
growing usage of tools like The Gimp) to work in a given colour space  
(i.e. sRGB or Adobe RBG 1998) and the used colour space should be  
included in the final picture ready to prints: most of the labs need  
this information so that you get the picture unmodified. Without the  
colour space information, most of the time, the colours are shifted and  
your work is ruined.

Sven


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