Re: [Gimp-user] Disadvantage of GIMP when compared to Photoshop
On 5/4/05, j Mak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also use both Photoshop and Gimp and agree that Potoshop is more user friendly. Interesting. I started using Photoshop in 2000. In 02 I was introduced to the gimp. I was so happy to finally find graphics software that was finally userfriendly. It has gotten to the point now where I hardly ever fireup Photoshop. The lack of a main window in Gimp seems to be a major irritation for new users. That you see all the icons and open windows behind your canvas could be annoying. I've never understood myself why developers haven't designed a main window for Gimp yet. I don't see why it would need one. The main window in Photoshop just is an annoyance. As far as I know Gimp is the only app that uses this non-standard interface. So where is this standard interface defined? Are you aware that Gimpshop, now uses Photoshop-like menu structure? That's the point of Gimpshop to be more like Photoshop. Sort of a halfway between the Gimp and Photoshop. There is no reason for the Gimp to change its very logical menu structure. In terms of editing, layers, and effects... nothing beats Photoshop. I agree. What exactly do y'all like better. Both have seemed comparable in functionality. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Calling GIMP from external program.
Yes you can call the gimp from the command line or use perl GIMP modules: Some possibly useful links: http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Batch/ http://www.ftgimp.com/help/C/command_line.html http://www.macgimp.org/article.php?story=78 http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Perl/ http://www.loni.ucla.edu/ad/Tutorial/starting.html On 5/4/05, Inpromptu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi It is possible to call GIMP, GIMP's tools, scripts, from an external program ? Is there some kind of API to do that ? Excuse my english... Inpromptu ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] No option to open TIFs (probably more of a compile question)
Thanks to everyone who responded (both on and off the list). As I suspected I needed to recompile the gimp. However I also needed to recompile glib, gtk, pango, atk, fontconfig, freetype, and libtiff. The thread at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/member.php?action=mailformuserid=179995 was very helpful and amit rao was extremely nice in providing personal help. PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/home/strycat/usr/lib/pkgconfig LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/home/strycat/usr/lib PATH=$PATH:/home/strycat/usr/bin All of the aforementioned packages needed to have the --prefix=/home/strycat/usr added to the ./configure line. I still have a few minor problems (couldn't find SGV or libgtkhtml) but the main problem of no tiff support has been resolved. After all of this, the GIMP 2.2 had better be the best program in the whole world. Thanks again to everyone who helped. -Tom On 4/26/05, Tom Cat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this has hit on the problem libtiff is showing up in /usr/lib instead of $HOME/usr/lib It is also the ancient version instead of the new version. Now how the heck to I get it to look in the right place? Another env variable? Another option in the configure script? Thanks. On 4/26/05, Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:29:01 -0400 Tom Cat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During the install I had to set a number of environmental vars: SED=sed LDFLAGS=-L/home/strycat/usr/lib LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/strycat/usr/lib PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/strycat/bin:/home/strycat/usr/bin/ LD_RUN_PATH=/home/strycat/usr/lib PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/home/strycat/usr/lib/pkgconfig/:/home/strycat/usr/lib/ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/strycat/usr/:/home/strycat/usr/lib/pkgconfig/:/home/strycat/usr/lib/ LIBTIFF=/home/strycat/usr/lib -ltiff FREETYPE_CONFIG='/home/strycat/usr/bin/freetype-config' What happens if as root you run 'ldconfig -v'? or better still 'ldconfig -v|grep tiff' Does libtiff show up where expected? Owen ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] No option to open TIFs (probably more of a compile question)
I think this has hit on the problem libtiff is showing up in /usr/lib instead of $HOME/usr/lib It is also the ancient version instead of the new version. Now how the heck to I get it to look in the right place? Another env variable? Another option in the configure script? Thanks. On 4/26/05, Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:29:01 -0400 Tom Cat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During the install I had to set a number of environmental vars: SED=sed LDFLAGS=-L/home/strycat/usr/lib LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/strycat/usr/lib PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/strycat/bin:/home/strycat/usr/bin/ LD_RUN_PATH=/home/strycat/usr/lib PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/home/strycat/usr/lib/pkgconfig/:/home/strycat/usr/lib/ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/strycat/usr/:/home/strycat/usr/lib/pkgconfig/:/home/strycat/usr/lib/ LIBTIFF=/home/strycat/usr/lib -ltiff FREETYPE_CONFIG='/home/strycat/usr/bin/freetype-config' What happens if as root you run 'ldconfig -v'? or better still 'ldconfig -v|grep tiff' Does libtiff show up where expected? Owen ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] anti-aliasing
You could try the unsharp mask. In gimp 1.x it was filters/enhance. In gimp 2.x it appears to be under ScriptFu/Alchemy. On 4/26/05, JASON JESSO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I maginfy the logo in gimp I see the jagged edges. I have no idea where to start to fix it. --- JASON JESSO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an image that looks ok in gimp, but when I import it in a PDF document I get a staircase effect. How do I smooth the edges in gimp? ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] No option to open TIFs (probably more of a compile question)
Hi folks, I'm sorry to barge in here, but I don't really know where else to turn. I'm on RH9. I finally decided to upgrade the GIMP from 1.3.x to 2.2.6 (more about that in a minute). The problem I have right now is that it will not open or write tiff's. Now I suspect it is b/c of how I installed it. I installed into a custom location (with the --prefix option when I ran configure). During the upgrade, the first thing I discovered was that I needed to upgrade GTK+ and GLib. A while ago I tried upgrading those packages and realized that was a terrible idea. So I found http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/gtk/local_install.html which told me how to install them in a different directory and use them. So that's what I did, I installed GTK+ 2.6.7 and glib 2.6.4 into my $HOME/usr directory. I ran into a problem with them complaining about some things and I ended up installing the following into the custom directory as well: atk 1.9.0 fontconfig 2.2.96 freetype 2.1.9 glib 2.6.4 gtk+ 2.6.7 pango 1.8.1 pkgconfig 0.17.1 libtiff 3.7.2 During the install I had to set a number of environmental vars: SED=sed LDFLAGS=-L/home/strycat/usr/lib LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/strycat/usr/lib PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/strycat/bin:/home/strycat/usr/bin/ LD_RUN_PATH=/home/strycat/usr/lib PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/home/strycat/usr/lib/pkgconfig/:/home/strycat/usr/lib/ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/strycat/usr/:/home/strycat/usr/lib/pkgconfig/:/home/strycat/usr/lib/ LIBTIFF=/home/strycat/usr/lib -ltiff FREETYPE_CONFIG='/home/strycat/usr/bin/freetype-config' Now once I did all of that that I compiled the gimp. It complained about not having gimp-print so I used the --disable-print option when I ran configure. It complied and installed fin into $HOME/usr However it doesn't seem to know anything about tiff files now. I'm pretty sure I've done something wrong while compiling it. Can anyone help? I've been struggling with this all weekend. Thanks, Tom ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] No option to open TIFs (probably more of a compile question)
Thanks for the reply. I didn't install the rpms, I complied everything from source. It was the only way I knew I could force them into my custom directory. I downloaded libtiff from http://www.libtiff.org/ On 4/25/05, Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 02:29:01PM -0400, Tom Cat wrote: However it doesn't seem to know anything about tiff files now. I'm pretty sure I've done something wrong while compiling it. Can anyone help? I've been struggling with this all weekend. do you have libtiff-dev or whatever red hat calls these things? if you are building gimp, you need the header files which distributions deliver separately. carol ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] No option to open TIFs (probably more of a compile question)
I'm confused what do you mean by item #1? As for #2 #3, I have a very stable system. That is part of the reason, I want to install the gimp in $HOME/usr not /usr or /usr/local. It doesn't seem know anything about tiffs. I've also tried the libtiff at ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/libs/ I had to recompile gtk+ and set CFLAGS='-I/home/strycat/usr/include' to get that to compile. However gimp does not give any errors but it just seems to ignore libtiff. Is there some option I can force it to look for libtiff? Thanks, -Tom On 4/25/05, Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 03:32:40PM -0400, Tom Cat wrote: Thanks for the reply. I didn't install the rpms, I complied everything from source. It was the only way I knew I could force them into my custom directory. I downloaded libtiff from http://www.libtiff.org/ a few things here, and not much actual help, so if you want to quit reading it, this is the warning. 1) google is trying to change the way the gimp lists respond to mail, i think. 2) you are using an old linux distribution. i am sorry about that. it is the ultimate in cheap and lazy and you will still be able to get gimp to work. 3) i was successful in getting gimp to build in /usr/ and i was successful in getting gimp to build in /usr/local/. the reason my experiences are limited to this is that someone who is competent with computers is running my system. good luck with your build, carol ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
