Re: Pdf, eps, ps? (Was: xcf -- eps)
Hi all, and to make it somewhat easier: pdflatex??? There is an interesting alternative to LaTeX called ConTeXt. Look at http://www.pragma-ade.nl for some examples what you can do with ConTeXt. It's very easy to produce good looking PDF documents with interactivity. So my proposed environment: gimp for pixel graphics sketch, (illustrator on mac) for vector graphics and mpost for scripted graphics in ConTeXt (look for metafun on pragma-ade) ConTeXt (with pdftex) for composing and setting text Yes! ConTeXt looked really promising. Beautiful stuff, even had pdf inline links working... I've got to check that out... /Carl-Johan "Without followers, evil cannot spread." -- Spock, "And The Children Shall Lead", stardate 5029.5 ICQ# 2357535 http://come.to/woc/ http://wlug.westbo.se/ -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GSS/CS/P d(++,--)--- s-: a--- C(,!) UL+++ P+++$ L++ E-$ W++(@) N? o? K? w-- !O M- V? PS++(@) PE- Y? PGP?++ t-++ 5?+++ X+ R- tv-! b DI++ D+ G e$ h--(+,) r(+++,---) y+** --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: Pdf, eps, ps? (Was: xcf -- eps)
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Robert Schiffers wrote: searching in the direction of illustrator i would like to promote "sketch" again. it's certainly not the perfect tool with all functions like some of the classic window/mac stuff, but it's quit promissing. it can combine pixel/vector graphics with simple text etc. it uses layers and it has an pdf export filter. perhaps that's what your looking for? http://sketch.sourceforge.net/ Yes, but now I remember why I never got to install sketch. It's a mess to get to work! I requires python (no worries, I have that), but also PIL, some python-library to work with images. I couldn't get PIL to compile properly, and at least didn't immeadeately find a binary package of it, so sketch fell on that too... Too bad. Anyone can guide me? /Carl-Johan "Without followers, evil cannot spread." -- Spock, "And The Children Shall Lead", stardate 5029.5 ICQ# 2357535 http://come.to/woc/ http://wlug.westbo.se/ -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GSS/CS/P d(++,--)--- s-: a--- C(,!) UL+++ P+++$ L++ E-$ W++(@) N? o? K? w-- !O M- V? PS++(@) PE- Y? PGP?++ t-++ 5?+++ X+ R- tv-! b DI++ D+ G e$ h--(+,) r(+++,---) y+** --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: Pdf, eps, ps? (Was: xcf -- eps)
Hi James, all, On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, James Smaby wrote: I typeset all of my things with plain TeX. This is much nastier than LaTeX, but I learned it in a year or so. I also use ps2pdf quite often on the output, so that I can print from window boxes in the labs, and the output is just fine. The main problem with the postscript output is that the fonts are bitmaps, so you only have a set resolution. [snip] Interesting. You sound like a real pro, handcarving TeX doesn't sound easy. Maybe though... But you say that the fonts are bitmap? I didn't knew that. If you want to see the conversion in action, I have a few docs on my web site which I've used these different methods: http://virgo.umeche.maine.edu/thesis/source http://virgo.umeche.maine.edu/graph_paper http://virgo.umeche.maine.edu/homework http://virgo.umeche.maine.edu/labs http://virgo.umeche.maine.edu/quaternian http://virgo.umeche.maine.edu/photos/chemistry_awards/postscript They use TeX/metapost, TeX/xfig, TeX/gimp, metapost, and xfig. I'll check them out, thanks. My xpdf doesn't display the fonts of TeX quite right and AFAIK gv only supports 16 colors but everything prints out perfect and displays right in Windows. What's wrong with acrobat reader under linux? So my recomendation is to bite the bullet and learn how how to typeset. It really isn't that bad, and your results will be so much more beautiful than anything that Distiller puts out. Hope this email wasn't too long... No, your email was just perfectly informing. BTW, I hope not all others on the list mind that much this forum being used as a general "doing graphics under linux" forum? Well, interesting tips. Thanks. /Carl-Johan Sveningsson "Without followers, evil cannot spread." -- Spock, "And The Children Shall Lead", stardate 5029.5 ICQ# 2357535 http://come.to/woc/ http://wlug.westbo.se/ -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GSS/CS/P d(++,--)--- s-: a--- C(,!) UL+++ P+++$ L++ E-$ W++(@) N? o? K? w-- !O M- V? PS++(@) PE- Y? PGP?++ t-++ 5?+++ X+ R- tv-! b DI++ D+ G e$ h--(+,) r(+++,---) y+** --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
RE: Patching Gimp
Where's is the "patch-name.diff" file ? On internet, i've just seen gimp-1.xx-1.xy.tar.bz2 files (or like that). How to use them ? -Message d'origine- De: Malcolm Tredinnick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: mardi 17 octobre 2000 01:55 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet: Re: Patching Gimp On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:45:53PM +1300, Nigel wrote: Is it easy to apply a patch for gimp? With the increased frequency of releases, I'm begining to wonder if it would be quicker to apply the patch instead of downloading the complete tarball? Yes, it is easy. Make sure you have the 'patch' utility on your system (I'd be surprised if you didn't already have it). Download and unzip the patch. Change into to the directory containing the old gimp source. Then just run patch -p1 patch-name.diff (inserting the appropriate patch name). The -p1 tells it to strip off the first part of the directory name in the patch file, because whoever made the patch may well have a different dir name than you do. Cheers, Malcolm -- Malcolm Tredinnickemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CommSecure Pty Ltd
Re: Pdf, eps, ps? (Was: xcf -- eps)
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Carl-Johan Sveningsson wrote: Yes, but now I remember why I never got to install sketch. It's a mess to get to work! Yup. Been there, done that. Check out xfig (http://www.xfig.org). A pleasure to install and use, especially for those of us who used the DOS products: DrawPerfect and Presentations. Rich Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) Making environmentally-responsible mining happen. (SM) 2404 SW 22nd Street | Troutdale, OR 97060-1247 | U.S.A. + 1 503-667-4517 (voice) | + 1 503-667-8863 (fax) | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Patching Gimp
Where's is the "patch-name.diff" file ? On internet, i've just seen gimp-1.xx-1.xy.tar.bz2 files (or like that). How to use them ? It's available in the ftp directory for gimp. Same place as the ordinary tarballs... ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp With mirrors of course...? /Carl-Johan "Without followers, evil cannot spread." -- Spock, "And The Children Shall Lead", stardate 5029.5 ICQ# 2357535 http://come.to/woc/ http://wlug.westbo.se/ -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GSS/CS/P d(++,--)--- s-: a--- C(,!) UL+++ P+++$ L++ E-$ W++(@) N? o? K? w-- !O M- V? PS++(@) PE- Y? PGP?++ t-++ 5?+++ X+ R- tv-! b DI++ D+ G e$ h--(+,) r(+++,---) y+** --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: Pdf, eps, ps? (Was: xcf -- eps)
Carl-Johan Sveningsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Robert Schiffers wrote: searching in the direction of illustrator i would like to promote "sketch" again. it's certainly not the perfect tool with all functions like some of the classic window/mac stuff, but it's quit promissing. it can combine pixel/vector graphics with simple text etc. it uses layers and it has an pdf export filter. perhaps that's what your looking for? http://sketch.sourceforge.net/ Yes, but now I remember why I never got to install sketch. It's a mess to get to work! I requires python (no worries, I have that), but also PIL, some python-library to work with images. I couldn't get PIL to compile properly, and at least didn't immeadeately find a binary package of it, so sketch fell on that too... Well, installing PIL is indeed the hardest part in getting Sketch to work. If you tell what went wrong when you tried to compile PIL, I could perhaps help you. Note also that some Linux distributions include Sketch (and therefore also PIL), e.g. SuSE 7.0, Mandrake 7.0 and Debian (the most obvious exception being Red Hat), and that there are some pointers to PIL packages Sketch's webpage. -- Bernhard Herzog | Sketch, a drawing program for Unix [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://sketch.sourceforge.net/
Re: More on patches:
Carol Spears wrote: How many times can you patch a gimp? Once upon a time I had 4 sequentual patches (1.1.21 to 1.1.25) and it worked fairy good. Alex __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: Splash Screen Image.
Kevin Oleksy wrote: I'm running Gimp v. 1.0.4 and I was just wondering, Is it possible to change the Splash Screen Image that comes up while gimp is loading? Change the file "gimp_splash.ppm" (supposely in /usr/share/gimp/ directory ) _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
