Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 23:04:44 -0700
From: Jay Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Marc Lehmann wrote:
A normal user has nothing to do with the swap file, except that he will
find that his disk is full and many hours later he might even find the
reason
It will be much more
I discovered a fairly nasty bug in 6-color mode in which there was a
discontinuity at the point that 6-color mode kicked in. Depending
upon the orientation of the gradient, the effect is either a dark line
of the color in question (cyan or magenta) or a white line. I had
thought it was a print
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 08:52:51 -0400
From: Michael Sweet [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Robert L Krawitz wrote:
...
The other part of the problem is that an equal mix of CMY doesn't
actually produce a neutral gray, particularly when the use of light
inks is taken into account
I've release print 3.0.3. This will be the last release of the year
unless some dramatic new bug pops up.
It's at http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/print-3.0.3.tar.gz. It is now
on my web site: http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk.
It has various improvements; color fidelity should be better, output
is
Experimental release 3.0.3.1 is now on my web site.
My printer currently has a partially clogged magenta head that I have
not yet been able to clear, so colors don't print true (this is why
the "experimental"). Nonetheless, I have been able to make some
improvements:
1) Dark midtones should
Well, I had to do a 3.0.5, due to a bug that Dave Hill spotted last
night. This bug causes a null pointer dereference on any attempt to
print in color to a printer that only supports CMY (not CMYK)
printing, such as the Epson Stylus Color 1500 (or the HP Deskjet 600
that he uses). This bug has
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 18:56:42 +0100 (CET)
From: David Monniaux [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PROBLEMS:
* Printing (under Linux) yields back results on certain printers
(HP DeskJet 690C).
What exactly are the problems? There are some fixes for HP printers
in Print 3.0.5 (on my web site),
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 19:04:20 +0100 (MET)
From: Avi Bercovich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PROBLEMS:
* Printing (under Linux) yields back results on certain printers
(HP DeskJet 690C).
adjusting the gamma of the image works really well for me. Maybe the print
dialog should
The current Gimp plugin (3.0.5) is a stable release at this point. I
will accept bug fixes, and support for new printers only if these can
be expressed in terms of functionality already in the plugin.
I'm starting work on a new development release (3.1) that will lead to
a 3.2 release. The
From: Dean Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 16:00:23 -0600 (CST)
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Garry R. Osgood),
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gimp Developer's Newslist)
Marc Lehmann spontaneously blurts out:
Failing that, I will set up a gimp server on a local
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 04:14:49 -0800
From: "Martin Weber" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I removed the rgb to hsv (and hsv to rgb) routines from several plugins
because this routines are now in libgimp. But there are still some
plugins like compose, decompose and flame where I din't found the
From: Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:17:48 +0100
Just a comment about the print plugin (I don't know if you've actually
done it) -- I suppose it's no disaster to do that to 3.0, but the
intent is that the core of the print plugin live standalone
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 18:03:32 -0500
From: Federico Mena Quintero [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If a GNOME program does not run under "bare" X or KDE, then it is
broken and should be fixed. Do you have any examples of such
programs?
No; I just wanted to make
From: "Michael J. Hammel" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 09:44:47 -0700 (MST)
Thus spoke Robert L Krawitz
From: Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IMHO having two different UIs to perform the same task is a stupid idea.
Actually, it's an eminentl
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 12:33:38 -0800
From: "Michael J. Hammel" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm curious why any new plug-ins should be added to the core *at all*.
Gimp's distribution is fairly large as it is. Isn't it getting time to
limit additional plug-ins to the core distribution to
I'm having to release a Print 3.0.6 due to a fairly serious bug found
by Panos Katsaloulis. The specific bug is that monochrome printing in
grayscale does not work properly. The patch is enclosed below.
cvs diff: Diffing .
Index: README
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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 09:53:37 -0500
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From: Robert L Krawitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 02:37:02 +0100
just do make my position clear: I was not critizing your decision. My
feeling was just that we could have built a similar framework on
available resources with substantial interest and a little effort.
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 22:43:41 +0100
From: Michael Natterer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Robert L Krawitz wrote:
I'm experimenting with gimp_image_get_resolution(). It appears (in
1.1.17, at any rate) that whatever I set the units to I always get
From: Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 03:18:53 +0100
Don't underestimate the importance of the resolution info for the print
plugin. The following task may not be very professional, but it is
certainly something the average gimp user does frequently:
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 22:36:11 + (GMT)
From: Austin Donnelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Saturday, 19 Feb 2000, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
Pending a general way to scale images separately on X and Y axes, what
would be your (collective) suggestions about how
I'm just waiting right now for Michael J. Hammel to sign off on a
couple of bug fixes (which isn't absolutely a sure thing), then I'll
release 3.0.7. To whom should I send the patch when it's ready?
I'm hoping to do 3.1.0 this evening; I'll also send that announcement
to this list. I'll be
This is the first version on the 3.1 (development) series. It is
available at http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net. In addition to the
plug-in for the Gimp, the same source base is used as the nucleus of a
GhostScript driver to support Epson Stylus printers.
Gimp developers, should I send these
I did a 3.0.7 this evening, and then decided to port a few of the
juicier GUI features over from the mainline (specifically the
separation of printrc save from cancel and print, the positioning
entry boxes, and the correct sizing computations), so I quickly did a
3.0.8. I sent Sven the patches
I put 3.0.9 up on gimp-print.sourceforge.net, and Sven checked the
equivalent into the Gimp proper.
This will be the last standalone release on the 3.0 branch. The
standalone code is getting too far out of sync with the Gimp CVS
repository to make this very easy, and the real action is
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 13:50:27 +0100
From: Aaron Optimizer Digulla [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here is a patch for the print plugin. The patch fixes an anoyance
with the print dialog: If you have lots of printers (we have about
50 here), it takes *several minutes* to open. Fix: Just use
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:18:37 +0100
From: Aaron Optimizer Digulla [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 08:09:37AM -0500, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
Here is a patch for the print plugin. The patch fixes an anoyance
with the print dialog: If you have lots of printers
From: "Michael J. Hammel" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 11:56:17 -0700 (MST)
I loaded the 1.1.17 release the other day and today I did a print job. All
I get is a solid black output. I'm using an Epson Stylus Color 500 and the
printer worked fine in 1.1.15 (I didn't
From: "Michael J. Hammel" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 11:56:17 -0700 (MST)
I loaded the 1.1.17 release the other day and today I did a print job. All
I get is a solid black output. I'm using an Epson Stylus Color 500 and the
printer worked fine in 1.1.15 (I didn't
From: "Michael J. Hammel" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 11:56:17 -0700 (MST)
I loaded the 1.1.17 release the other day and today I did a print job. All
I get is a solid black output. I'm using an Epson Stylus Color 500 and the
printer worked fine in 1.1.15 (I didn't
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 16:45:59 +0100
From: Marc Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 02:16:04PM -0500, Robert L Krawitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When the Gimp is installed, the make install should run ldconfig (on
Elf-based systems, at any
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 11:54:48 +0100
From: Marc Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
($plugins = `$GIMPTOOL -n --install-admin-bin /bin/sh`) =~
s{^.*\s(.*?)(?:/+bin/sh)\r?\n?$}{$1}}
(I only need it in the testsuite, which is not run when we're inside the
gimp source tree)
Which will work
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 17:44:55 -0800
From: Manish Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 08:48:29PM -0500, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 11:49:14 -0800
From: Manish Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gimptool --prefix
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 03:56:18 -0800
From: Manish Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 09:01:01PM -0500, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
(and as it happens, in 1.1 the Gimp library directory is
/usr/local/lib/gimp/1.1, and so forth. Not very
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 14:09:49 -0800
From: Manish Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 09:18:57AM -0500, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 03:56:18 -0800
From: Manish Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Right, but they can be made
Print 3.1.1 is out. Please see http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net or
ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/gimp-print/print-3.1.1.tar.gz.
This is a development release. The usual caveats apply. We still
don't guarantee that the print head won't be launched from the printer
with *ahem*
When the Gimp is installed, the make install should run ldconfig (on
Elf-based systems, at any rate) so that ld.so picks up the new shared
libraries.
--
Robert Krawitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/
Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 21:44:49 +0100
From: Marc Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 07:23:49AM -0500, Robert L Krawitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the presence of the Gimp. It's considerably more than "just a cache";
it controls how runtime dynamic lin
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:22:50 +0100 (MET)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raphael Quinet)
Like I said: this should be run as part of the installation procedure
"on Elf-based systems, at any rate".
But "Elf" and "ldconfig" are not too related to each other.
Yup! I have an
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 18:10:32 +0100 (MET)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raphael Quinet)
Libtool already prints a message telling the user to run "ldconfig" or
"ldconfig -v" after installing something, so any user who watches the
installation process should know what to do.
If
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 13:05:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Eddie Maddox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm new to GIMP. I also just bought an HP DeskJet 952C printer. All the
9xx models support 2400x1200 resolution and the use of both premium and
real photographic paper.
The GIMP 1.0.4 print config
From: Tor Lillqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 23:02:43 +0300 (FLE Daylight Time)
I got now several emails from users with the wish to add XCF reading
support in my viewer.
I don't know if that is a good idea. XCF is really the GIMP's own
private format for
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 23:21:35 +0200
From: Marc Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And, in the future, when the format *might* (or might not...) be extended
so it is easily mmapable (large images) or aquires other similar features,
the idea of "reading/writing xcf images form outside the
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 19:15:57 -0500 (CDT)
From: Tim Mooney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: Raphael Quinet [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In regard to: Re: EPIPE, Michael Natterer said (at 12:40am on May 11, 2000):
This is what currently happens (ok, it happens in the handler, but
This is a development release. Usual caveat about aerodynamic print
heads and fine Oriental rugs apply.
This is a fairly substantial release. The .tgz file is much bigger
than before because of new dithering matrices. Print quality should
be greatly improved.
1) Greatly improved print
This is an emergency release due to a GhostScript compile failure that
slipped through the cracks. However, I did slip a little goodie in
there just the same.
1) Emergency GhostScript bug fix.
2) escputil program now retrieves ink level from the printer.
--
Robert Krawitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is a development release of Gimp-Print. This will probably be
the last release until after the Printing Summit in two weeks.
Print 3.1.8 contains the following improvements over 3.1.7:
1) The entries for printer model and paper size have been greatly
improved. There are many
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
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Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 11:07:44 +0100 (BST)
From: Austin Donnelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tuesday, 1 Aug 2000, Marc Lehmann wrote:
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 09:29:01PM -0400, Robert L Krawitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Any suggestions
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:34:10 -0400
From: Zachary Beane [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This was a legitimate screw-up in one version of Red Hat, IIRC. They
did not include the gimptool script in either gimp or gimp-devel
RPMs. This became an issue on IRC for several people, until we finally
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 23:56:55 +0100 (BST)
From: Austin Donnelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Some work needs to be done on gimptool before 1.2 can release. In
particular, we need to be able to use it to automate the building of
DLL modules without using a gimp build tree.
As long as we're
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 14:43:30 +0200
From: Marc Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:56:35AM -0400, Robert L Krawitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hope to release in a few months), we'll probably want to ship printer
definitions, color profiles, possibly dither
This is the first alpha release along the way to 4.0. It is not 4.0.
Gimp-Print 4.0a1 contains the following improvements over Gimp-Print 3.1.9:
1) The Ghostscript driver has been extensively revised. IN
PARTICULAR, THE OPTIONS HAVE CHANGED TO A DEGREE MAKING IT
IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANY USES
Thanks!
--
Robert Krawitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/
Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2
Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Project lead for The Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 01:08:42 +0200
From: Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There were no API changes at all. All of the names that are standard
now have been around for a long time and the only thing we did was to
reverse the logic of the COMPAT_CRUFT defines. What was
This is the third alpha release (and hopefully the last before beta)
for gimp-print. This is a major update.
There are two problems beyond those noted in the release notes:
1) Printing position is incorrect on the Epson Stylus Color 800 (the
same issue we had on the 850).
2) The
This is the first beta of gimp-print 4.0. This is a major release,
and has many important changes over all previous versions. In
particular, the format of the printrc file has changed incompatibly
with all earlier versions of the print plug-in. The new plugin can
read old printrc files but not
I've complained about this for a while (the Gimp install procedure
doesn't do an ldconfig at the end). The effect that that has is that
you can't run configure in gimp-data-extras, and the message isn't
helpful.
[2(rlk)||{!284}rlkppp/mnt1/sandbox/gimp-data-extras-1.1.26]
$ ./configure
loading
To the Editor of Popular Photography:
In your article "Expanding the Palette" in the October 2000 issue, you
listed several software products available for image editing and
painting in a box on page 62. I was disappointed not to see The GIMP
not included in this roundup. This is a very high
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 22:36:05 -0500
From: Jon Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Robert L Krawitz wrote:
To the Editor of Popular Photography:
In your article "Expanding the Palette" in the October 2000 issue, you
listed several software products available
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 20:21:45 +0100
From: Nick Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Enough hilarity. If you know of something which must be done before
1.2.0 please follow on to this mail. If you know of a reason why
we should unfreeze Gimp instead, feel free to let loose.
I would like to
This is the second (and hopefully last) beta release of gimp-print
4.0. It is not the final 4.0 release, but it is very close. We
anticipate that the final 4.0 will happen in a few weeks, after more
testing and any necessary bug fixes. In addition, we expect support
for the Epson Stylus Color
Gimp-print 4.0.3 is a stable release in the 4.0 line. Ghostscript
users and users of the HP DeskJet 1200C should take this update; it is
optional for others.
Gimp-Print 4.0.3 contains the following fixes over Gimp-Print 4.0.2:
1) The fix to the GhostScript driver in 4.0.2 broke the handling of
This is an emergency release due to a bug in the configure script.
This bug was fixed in beta, but reappeared due to a system upgrade
that replaced the fixed file.
There is another quality fix. All users should take this upgrade.
Gimp-Print 4.0.4 contains the following fixes over Gimp-Print
From: Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 10 Dec 2000 18:50:36 +0100
As Mitch already pointed out, bug fixes will go into the 1.2.x branch.
The issue's not bug fixes, but feature enhancements -- new printers,
quality improvements, and such, as we're already working on our 4.1.
Should
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 21:34:12 +0900 (JST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can ignore "bad language" in the first one, because you can still
perfectly understand the issues raised there. If you think they are
issues in the first place. Apparently, some people don't.
You could have
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 15:31:07 +0100
From: Simon Budig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dont argue with speed: Pressing Alt-F + x to exit a program is definitely
more complicated than pressing Ctrl-Q. This goes double for nested menus.
In this *particular* instance, faster != better IMHO.
This is gimp-print version 4.1.0, the initial development on the 4.1 line.
This plugin can be compiled against either Gimp 1.1 or 1.0. After 1.2
is released, we anticipate dropping support for Gimp 1.0 and older
versions of Gimp 1.1 (probably 1.20 and earlier, although that is not
guaranteed).
From gimp-1.1.31.tar.bz2 on ftp.gimp.org.
Making all in po-plug-ins
make[2]: Entering directory `/mnt1/sandbox/gimp-1.1.31/po-plug-ins'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `../plug-ins/common/spheredesigner.c', needed by
`gimp-std-plugins.pot'. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory
There's a certain kind of correction that we're using in gimp-print
that I'd like to be able to create a GUI element for.
In order to get more accurate colors, I've come up with with a color
correction technique in HSL space based on hue mapping and luminosity
mapping. It's based on the
Please feel free to write this plugin.
--
Robert Krawitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/
Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2
Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Project lead for The Gimp Print --
This is gimp-print version 4.1.1, a development release on the 4.1 line.
Print 4.1.1 contains the following fixes and improvements over 4.1.0:
1) Further improvements in quality (we believe) in Photograph mode.
2) A problem whereby black letters and other black detail had a hollow
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 11:56:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Matts Kivik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have showed the Gimp to driven photoshop users, and they all
complained at one thing, the fact that gimp does not have a "root"
window, like photoshop in windows have.
As long as no one's *forced* to
All users of the Epson driver should take this release, particularly
if you've had problems with the very bottom of the print not printing
out and the page not ejecting (this is accompanied by a segmentation
violation if it happens).
The next release of gimp-print will include a major
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