[Gimp-user] Text tool problem
Hi! I have just started to use Gimp 2.0.5, under Mandrake Linux 10.0. I have a really serious problem with the text tool. If I do the following: 1. Start Gimp 2. Create a new image 3. Select the text tool 4. Click on the new image 5. Start typing any text Both the image window and Gimp closes without any warning after the first 1 to 3 letters. The text I type do not appear in the word processing window. Thanks for any help in andvance. Mark Balas -- Bals Mrk Blog, honlap: http://trychydts.freeblog.hu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Text tool problem
Hi, Balas Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just started to use Gimp 2.0.5, under Mandrake Linux 10.0. I have a really serious problem with the text tool. If I do the following: 1. Start Gimp 2. Create a new image 3. Select the text tool 4. Click on the new image 5. Start typing any text Both the image window and Gimp closes without any warning after the first 1 to 3 letters. The text I type do not appear in the word processing window. It would probably help to start gimp from an xterm (or whatever terminal emulator you prefer) and check if there's any output on the console. I guess that your problem is a somewhat broken font that causes problems with the libraries that handle fonts for GIMP. Does this happen with whatever font you choose? What versions of freetype and fontconfig are you using? Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Text tool problem
Balas Mark wrote: Hi! I have just started to use Gimp 2.0.5, under Mandrake Linux 10.0. I have a really serious problem with the text tool. If I do the following: 1. Start Gimp 2. Create a new image 3. Select the text tool 4. Click on the new image 5. Start typing any text Both the image window and Gimp closes without any warning after the first 1 to 3 letters. The text I type do not appear in the word processing window. Long shot here, but was the 'word processing' window the current window? Or was it possible that GIMP was picking up what you were typing and took it as some command, say exit?? -- Until later, Geoffrey Registered Linux User #108567 ATT Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995 ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Re: Text tool problem
Balas Mark wrote: Hi! What versions of freetype and fontconfig are you using? How could I find this out? (Sorry for being so amateur, but I switched to Linux only three months ago.) Go to the mandrake control center, package category, and launch the remove package tool. There you can search for fontconfig and freetype, and it should return you the name of the rpm packages installed on your system. DO NOT UNINSTALL THEM. just note the name of the packages On a Mandrake 10.0, you should have: fontconfig-2.2.1-7mdk.i586.rpm libfontconfig1-2.2.1-7mdk.i586.rpm freetype-1.3.1-21mdk.i586.rpm freetype-tools-1.3.1-21mdk.i586.rpm freetype2-tools-2.1.7-1mdk.i586.rpm libfreetype6-2.1.7-4mdk.i586.rpm also, there are packages called gimp-freetype (don't ask me what they do, I think it is the freetype plugin, so there are not relevant) gimp-freetype-0.2-3mdk.i586.rpm gimp2-freetype-0.5-3mdk.i586.rpm Thanks, Mark Balas Just as a data point, I have gimp 2.0.5 installed on my Mandrake 10.0 Could you also give the version of your gtk2 package called libgtk+2.0-versionnumber-numbermdk.i586.rpm On an original mdk 10.0, it is 2.2.4, which I am not sure is enough for gimp 2.0.5. Best regards, Olivier. PS: there are some rpm of gimp 2.0.3 here: http://wwwra.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~waschk/Mandrake/10.0/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] smart resize
Barton Bosch wrote: Hey Marco, could you tell whether and why using bicubic for enlarging and bilinear for reducing is better than using bicubic for both? I was under the impression that bicubic was the highest quality algorithm for all resizing operations. No, I couldn't. I cannot find any reason based on a clear mathematical proof. However I'm quite sure that bicubic is not a panacea for all resizing operations. In http://www.msjc.edu/m2/gall/resampling-nearestbilinear/resampling.html is given an example of better results with Nearest Neighbour instead of bicubic (because of the image nature). In http://www.mav-magazine.com/Apr1999/resample/ is described this bilinear/bicubic option of PSP. The question is tricky. And I'm very interested in a clear answer. My opinion is that (sometimes) bicubic for reducing smooths the image too much. Marco ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
