Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake uses Photoshop... What a pity!

2003-11-04 Thread Élie Charest
Le 4 Novembre 2003 10:15, Frederic Crozat a écrit : > > That's what's Bruno Bellamy do (more than that, only FreeSoftwares > > AFAIK), http://neverland.net/bellamy/ I hope other talented guys will > > follow. > > Beep.. Wrong, Bruno has to use non free software for its printed material, > because o

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake uses Photoshop... What a pity!

2003-11-04 Thread Frederic Crozat
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:29:13 +0100, Fabien ILLIDE wrote: > Hi to all, > First, I'm NOT a graphist ;-) > > Liam Quin a écrit : > > ... >> Having said that, there are a lot of other things GIMP would need >> to compete with PhotoShop in the professional pre-print world... >> Some that spring to mi

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake uses Photoshop... What a pity!

2003-11-04 Thread Fabien ILLIDE
Hi to all, First, I'm NOT a graphist ;-) Liam Quin a écrit : ... Having said that, there are a lot of other things GIMP would need to compete with PhotoShop in the professional pre-print world... Some that spring to mind include * trapping, colour separation, undercolour removal, hexachrome suppor

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake uses Photoshop... What a pity!

2003-11-02 Thread Rob
On Sunday 02 November 2003 07:51, Leon Brooks wrote: > So switch to Film Gimp, now known as CinePaint. I'm sure it's > in contrib or one of the satellite repositories. > http://cinepaint.sourceforge.net/ It is in contrib and I do recommend it when my clients need a basic image manipulation to

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake uses Photoshop... What a pity!

2003-11-02 Thread Leon Brooks
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 04:37, Rob wrote: > (c) to know that Pan originally stood for "Pimp-Ass > Newsreader" you'd have to google a little bit (they even let > "superpimp.com" lapse), whereas "gimp" is the name of the > executable. So switch to Film Gimp, now known as CinePaint. I'm sure it's in contr

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake uses Photoshop... What a pity!

2003-11-02 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 20:58, Rob wrote: > On Saturday 01 November 2003 16:20, guran wrote: > > I think it is nice that some poets or persons have humor. > > In the US, sadly, trial lawyers seldom do. > > Rob They have a sense of humor, they laugh all the way to the bank with your money. :( Jam

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake uses Photoshop... What a pity!

2003-11-01 Thread Rob
On Saturday 01 November 2003 16:20, guran wrote: > I think it is nice that some poets or persons have humor. In the US, sadly, trial lawyers seldom do. Rob

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake uses Photoshop... What a pity!

2003-11-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 19:52, Leon Brooks wrote: > On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 04:10, Duncan wrote: > > If I don't miss my guess, "The Gimp", was a DELIBERATE play on the > > above meaning, in the same "finger to the man" anti-corporate > > poking-fun-at-society deliberate way the Linux community has such >

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake uses Photoshop... What a pity!

2003-11-01 Thread Leon Brooks
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 04:10, Duncan wrote: > If I don't miss my guess, "The Gimp", was a DELIBERATE play on the > above meaning, in the same "finger to the man" anti-corporate > poking-fun-at-society deliberate way the Linux community has such > applications as "Scrotum" [...], "BitchX", and "Pimp-Ass

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake uses Photoshop... What a pity!

2003-11-01 Thread guran
lördagen den 1 november 2003 21.37 skrev Rob: > "Pimp-ass newsreader" is no big deal because (a) none of my > clients need to be reading news more than Google Groups will > suffice for; (b) there are no pimps per se around my client > sites to get offended, whereas there are handicapped people and

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake uses Photoshop... What a pity!

2003-11-01 Thread Rob
On Saturday 01 November 2003 15:10, Duncan wrote: > killing that element of Linux entirely would imply crushing > the software libre spirity, and will only make Linux into > another MSWormOS, GPL or no GPL. If that's what we are to do, > why bother switching from MSWormOS in the FIRST place? Beca

[Cooker] Re: Mandrake uses Photoshop... What a pity!

2003-11-01 Thread Duncan
Brad Felmey posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:06:49 -0500: > On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 10:14, Mike wrote: > >> 1) The many-windows gui design - less said about that the better, esp >> when you have a large image that takes up the whole screen, you have to >> window

[Cooker] Re: Mandrake uses Photoshop... What a pity!

2003-11-01 Thread Duncan
Rob posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:35:22 -0400: > On Wednesday 22 October 2003 12:31, Thierry Vignaud wrote: >> > less hostile interface but also because the two most common >> > cultural references to the word "gimp" in the US (and maybe >> > other English sp

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake uses Photoshop... What a pity!

2003-10-27 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 02:20, Liam Quin wrote: > If you're paying for a print run of 5,000 pictures of nude politicians, > the cost of the colour pallette is relatively small. I don't know where you live, but this idea combined with the corpus of British politicians leaves me with a truly horrific

[Cooker] Re: Mandrake uses Photoshop... What a pity!

2003-10-26 Thread Liam Quin
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 20:56, Pierre Jarillon wrote: Le Dimanche 26 Octobre 2003 22:55, Giuseppe Ghibò a écrit : > > IMHO the main obstable is the Pantone proprietary system. > > This problem must be solved to allow free software used by > professional printers. But I can't imagine free inks :-( >

[Cooker] Re: Mandrake uses Photoshop... What a pity!

2003-10-22 Thread David Walser
Mike wrote: > The main things that I find bad about gimp (just my opinion, maybe im > mad/doing it wrong) > [...] > 3) In photoshop, if you need the zoom tool, you just press 'Z' crop is > another one key shortcut. In gimp the same operation involves several > clicks to cycle through each window (