Re: 32-bit images in gimp - Alpha handling wrong?

2000-07-18 Thread Calvin Williamson
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 09:41:49PM -0400, Garry R. Osgood wrote: > David Hodson wrote: > > > "Steinar H. Gunderson" wrote: > > > > > GIMP already does this (32-bit = RGBA, the `extra' 8 bits is an alpha channel, > > > used for transparency information), and has done for a long time now. > > Calv

Re: 32-bit images in gimp - Alpha handling wrong?

2000-07-18 Thread Tom Rathborne
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 09:41:49PM -0400, Garry R. Osgood wrote: > David Hodson wrote: > > Example: render an rgba image. (I was using some PovRay output; I > > presume it does a reasonable job.) Now create a flat colour > > background in the Gimp, lay the rgba image on top, and try to get > > a c

gtk+ 1.3.x

2000-07-18 Thread Daniel
Question. . Will Gimp 1.1.24 work with gtk+ 1.3.0? I am working on Gimp for BeOS and the port of gtk+ that I have is roughly 1.3.0 and there is no port of the 1.2.x branch. Thanks, Daniel Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 32-bit images in gimp - Alpha handling wrong?

2000-07-18 Thread Garry R. Osgood
David Hodson wrote: > "Steinar H. Gunderson" wrote: > > > GIMP already does this (32-bit = RGBA, the `extra' 8 bits is an alpha channel, > > used for transparency information), and has done for a long time now. Calvin Williamson recommended "Image Composition Fundamentals" by Alvy Ray Smith, for

Re: 32-bit images in gimp - Alpha handling wrong?

2000-07-18 Thread Nick Lamb
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 10:39:26PM +0100, I wrote: > No the program which produced your example PNG image is broken. > The PNG specification requires straight RGBA, pre-multiplied alpha is > prohibited and this is spelled out several times. Gimp can't hope to > interpret an invalid image correctl

Re: GIF Saving Patch

2000-07-18 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Tuesday, 18 Jul 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Attached is a patch file for gif.c that fixes a bug that made a dialog pop > up when running noninteractively, which was messing up my scripts. > > It was written against 1.1.23 and 3.0.2 of gif.c in plug-ins/common/. > > If someone with the r

Re: 32-bit images in gimp - Alpha handling wrong?

2000-07-18 Thread Nick Lamb
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 12:53:31AM +1000, David Hodson wrote: > > Can you justify that (all images should be pre-multiplied)? > > Or is this just your unsupported opinion? > > Well, that was attempted editorial humour to some extent, but it's also > the opinion of (for example) Jim Blinn, and Tho

Re: please

2000-07-18 Thread Tim Mooney
In regard to: please, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said (at 6:27pm on Jul 17, 2000): >We are trying to port GIMP 1.0.4 to AIX 4.3.3 We have been able to compile >this >without any problems but when we try to execute, we are getting as follows >

GIF Saving Patch

2000-07-18 Thread bryan
Attached is a patch file for gif.c that fixes a bug that made a dialog pop up when running noninteractively, which was messing up my scripts. It was written against 1.1.23 and 3.0.2 of gif.c in plug-ins/common/. If someone with the right access could run this patch on the source tree it would pr

Re: 32-bit images in gimp - Alpha handling wrong?

2000-07-18 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
>It depends on what you are doing weather pre multiplied alpha is useful >or not. For compositing and image warping pre multiplied alpha is great. for >color correction pre-multiplied alpha just gets in the way. Since >pre-multiplying the alpha does throw away a few bits of information my >pref

Re: 32-bit images in gimp - Alpha handling wrong?

2000-07-18 Thread Jay Cox
David Hodson wrote: > > Nick Lamb wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 05:37:56PM +1000, David Hodson wrote: > > > OK, this has been bugging me for some time. I'm convinced that Gimp's > > > alpha handling is wrong, in more than a few places. > > > > OK, but please provide some concrete example

Re: 32-bit images in gimp - Alpha handling wrong?

2000-07-18 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 12:53:31AM +1000, David Hodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A hack? I thought it was a mathematically elegant representation of > an image layer, which is why I see a reason to support it. I'm trying AFAICS premultiplied alpha is a speed hakc and nothing more, for cases wh

Re: 32-bit images in gimp - Alpha handling wrong?

2000-07-18 Thread David Hodson
Nick Lamb wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 05:37:56PM +1000, David Hodson wrote: > > OK, this has been bugging me for some time. I'm convinced that Gimp's > > alpha handling is wrong, in more than a few places. > > OK, but please provide some concrete examples... > > To start with, there shou

ANNOUNCE: gimp-print 3.1.9

2000-07-18 Thread Robert L Krawitz
All users of the GhostScript stp driver should upgrade, due to a critical bug that causes an infinite loop to occur with some combinations of printer choice, compiler used, and possibly other factors. Other users may want to upgrade due to the print quality improvements. One user has reported an

RE: Map to object death

2000-07-18 Thread Tom Bech
> > Hello. > When i attempt to use "map to object" through > "selection to animage" on > the file > "http://oa-bsa.org/resources/logos/gif250/logo_250.gif" > mapped > to a box, "map_object" dies. here's the stack trace: > > /usr/local/lib/gimp/1.1/plug-ins/MapObject: fatal > error: Segmentation