Re: Rendering text with gimp_perl and gimp_text

1999-11-02 Thread Martin Treusch von Buttlar
Hi, firstly, sorry for the long delay. A public holiday in parts of germany. On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 05:28:37PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote: I don´t understand this conclusion.. Do you mean the "top" (or the baseline) of the two text layers doesn´t match, or do you mean that the baselines

Re: Transform tool not ready for release

1999-11-02 Thread Sven Neumann
I've been hacking at the internals of the transform tool, but until now I hadn't looked at how it worked from the outside. It's just not right! You need to be able to set the transform by swapping between modes (rotate/shear/scale/perspective - plus move), adding to the existing transform at

Help System

1999-11-02 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Except it doesn't seem to work on systems without GtkXmHTML installed. I don't have that on my systems Would it be possible for the build to recognize this and remove the Help option from the File menu? The current dialog that pops in these cases (no GtkXmHTML) is fairly confusing to

Re: GIMP Plug-ins for other Apps? - LGPL for some GIMP modules?

1999-11-02 Thread Shawn T . Amundson
I don't think it's appropriate to change the licensing of the GPL portions of GIMP, even if somehow it could be done. It's kind of like asking that you GPL your commercial software so we can include parts of it into GIMP. ;-) However, it would be neat to see GIMP extended in such a way that

Re: GIMP Plug-ins for other Apps? - LGPL for some GIMP modules?

1999-11-02 Thread Ian McKellar
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 05:50:53PM -0500, Bill Dolson wrote: Hi; I have been developing commercial software for telecine color correction (film to tape transfer) using GTK on Linux for nearly a year now. I have a requirement to offer filter plug-ins and wish to explore using the GIMP

Re: GIMP Plug-ins for other Apps? - LGPL for some GIMP modules?

1999-11-02 Thread Ian McKellar
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 08:19:41PM -0600, Andrew Kieschnick wrote: Gimp plug-ins are not linked into the calling program (they are run as separate processes), so you can call them from any program you like without violating the GPL. Perhaps, but that is open to interpretation. Corel is

Re: Rendering text with gimp_perl and gimp_text

1999-11-02 Thread Martin Treusch von Buttlar
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 01:32:51AM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote: And I enjoyed it very much ;- Me, too. I can see what you mean now. perl - its my graphiclanguage-to-perl-translator, Tell me more about this translator, please ;- It's a graphics render language to process large amount of