Re: ANNOUNCE: GDynText 1.5.4

[Marco Lamberto]

On 9 Feb 2001, Tuomas "spectrolite" Kuosmanen wrote:
>Btw, does it now remember the font weight attribute? I have been using
>gimp-freetype lately, but I remember having to change the font bold
>every time I ran gdyntext on a dyntext layer. At least my CVS gimp has
>this bug still.
Well, this is not my fault, I'm using the GTK+ standard font selector, I've
only attached some events to mine. I've checked it and I'm sure that is the
GTK+ font selector buggy.
I'll add some extra checks in the next release in order to avoid this problem.
I know that this is a REALLY noisy bug.

Regards,
Marco
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Re: ANNOUNCE: GDynText 1.5.4

[Marco Lamberto]

On 8 Feb 2001, Sven Neumann wrote:
>If you think this release containes some important bugfixes with
>respect to the version we ship with gimp-1.2, please send us a
>patch, so we can integrate your changes into the 1-2 branch.
Well there are no bug fixed, I've mainly merged the CVS stuff.
However the most important think for this version (and the previous 1.5.3) 
is that now avoids renaming any modified layer into "GDynText Layer".
This was a quite noisy behaviour.

A patch vs gimp 1.2.1 is ok? ;)

Regards,
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ANNOUNCE: GDynText 1.5.4

[Marco Lamberto]

Now really compiles with GTK_DISABLE_COMPAT_H defined.

I can download it at:
 
or:
 

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ANNOUNCE: GDynText 1.5.3

[Marco Lamberto]

Another merge with GIMP CVS and some enhancements:

  * Better placement for text lines by using -1 for the border value when
using gimp_text_fontname.
  * It doesn't smash anymore the layer's name back to "GDynText Layer" when
you re-edit a layer's text. (John Manoogian III)
  * Compiles also with GTK_DISABLE_COMPAT_H defined.

The source code is available at:
  

Direct link to the tgz:
  
Or:


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Re: GIMP 1.2.0 source and binary RPM files

[Marco Lamberto]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Kevin Cozens wrote:
>If anyone is desparate to have RPMs and can't wait for the files to be
[...]
>mailing list to save peoples already overflowing mailboxes.
Feel free to overflow my personal mailbox, please send me a patch vs gimp
1.2.0, so I'll add a %patch and finally install it!! ;))

>You may now jump up and down, and cheer (or not).  :-)
Surely I'll do! ;))
Good work, thank you! ;)
Marco
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Re: GIMP 1.2.0 DESTDIR patch

[Marco Lamberto]

On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Marc Lehmann wrote:
>> Please check the patch and _please_ merge those changes in order to build
>> again easily and RPMmed GIMP. ;)
>Instead of requiring special rpm support for each and every package, why
>not just fix the package manager? ;->
Eh, eh, I know this old story, not everybody loves RPM but, on my own, I think
it's extremely useful (if you write a decent specfile) not only for novice
users.

>Anyway, I am pleased but astonished that it works without a flaw in the pelr
>subtree, however:
>> -cd po && \$(MAKE) install
>> +#   cd po && \$(MAKE) install
>Why do you disable the installation of the perl-translation tables? If
>there is another makefile doing the make install, do you know which one it
>is (so it can be fixed)?
Yes, I've forgotten to underline this fix. I've modified ONLY this line in the
perl plug-in dir because the "po" files are installed by the main Makefile, so
the make install will install them twice. By disabling the install section into
the main Makefile would have required changes also into the perl/po Makefile,
while my main goal was to let the perl stuff almost unchanged.

>> +if test ! -z "$(DESTDIR)" && test ! -z "$(GIMP_PERL)" && test 
>"$$subdir" = "$(GIMP_PERL)"; then \
>> +local_target="PREFIX=$(DESTDIR)$(prefix) 
>gimpplugindir=$(DESTDIR)$(gimpplugindir) $$local_target"; \
>Nifty ;)
>(Anyway, it does look good at least to me ;)
Eh, eh, yeah, surely I can write down a better test code however I've used the
same style used into the whole script, I suppose this stuff was done for
compatibility issues so I don't minded if it was ugly or too long. ;)
The "local_target" hack is a trick that makes the perl plug-in installing in
the "old" way (gimp <= 1.1.25).
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Re: GIMP 1.2.0 DESTDIR patch

[Marco Lamberto]

On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Kevin Cozens wrote:
>Great timing, Marco. Yesterday and today I have been working on the .spec
>file for GIMP 1.2.0. I have a working one now.
Ohhh, good news! (My poor and overheated K6-233 takes a breath) ;))

>I'm just reviewing it as I am not sure that the libgimp .html files are being
>installed and probably should be.
If I remember well the "make install" places them into
share/gimp/1.2/devel-docs/, the current specfile doesn't notice them (the
should obviously go into gimp-devel).

>I am also trying to decide where scm2scm and scm2perl belong.
>Should they be in gimp and gimp-perl respectively, or gimp-devel for both?
I think they should go into gimp-perl, however I'm not sure if they are always
available, I suppose that they require some extra perl modules.

>Other than that, I will put a patch together for the spec files in a day or
>so.
Good, I've attached a revised patch of mine vs the gimp.spec.in that should fix
some stuff. It was contributed by my friend Giandomenico Di Tullio.
I hope this will help you. ;)

Happy new year! (and GIMP too!)
Marco
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--- gimp.spec.in.orig   Wed Nov  8 00:12:01 2000
+++ gimp.spec.inMon Jan  1 09:17:12 2001
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 %define subver   @GIMP_MAJOR_VERSION@.@GIMP_MINOR_VERSION@
 %define microver @GIMP_MICRO_VERSION@
-%define ver  @VERSION@
+%define ver  %{subver}.%{microver}
 %define prefix  /usr
 %define sysconfdir /etc
 
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 Prefix:%{prefix}
 Obsoletes: gimp-data-min
 Obsoletes: gimp-libgimp
-Requires:  gtk+ >= 1.2.0
+Requires:  gtk+ >= 1.2.8
 Source:
ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/unstable/v%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
 
 %description
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
 [ -n "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" -a "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" != / ] && rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/info $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/include \
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/lib $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/bin
-make prefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix} PREFIX=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix} install
+make DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT install
 
 # Strip the executables
 strip $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/bin/gimp
@@ -103,6 +103,9 @@
 if [ -d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/man ]; then
   find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/man -type f -exec gzip -9nf {} \;
 fi
+if [ -d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/lib/perl5/man ]; then
+  find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/lib/perl5/man -type f -exec gzip -9nf {} \;
+fi
 
 #
 # This perl madness will drive me batty
@@ -131,6 +134,8 @@
  /usr/lib/rpm/find-lang.sh $RPM_BUILD_ROOT gimp-libgimp
  /usr/lib/rpm/find-lang.sh $RPM_BUILD_ROOT gimp-std-plugins
  /usr/lib/rpm/find-lang.sh $RPM_BUILD_ROOT gimp-script-fu
+ /usr/lib/rpm/find-lang.sh $RPM_BUILD_ROOT gimp-perl
+
  cat %{name}.lang gimp-libgimp gimp-std-plugins.lang gimp-script-fu.lang \
 | sed "s:(644, root, root, 755):(444, bin, bin, 555):" > gimp-all.lang
 fi
@@ -149,7 +154,7 @@
 # Build the master filelists generated from the above mess.
 #
 cat gimp-plugin-files gimp-all.lang gimp-tips-files > gimp.files
-cat gimp-perl gimp-perl-plugin-files > gimp-perl-files
+cat gimp-perl gimp-perl-plugin-files gimp-perl.lang > gimp-perl-files
 
 %clean
 [ -n "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" -a "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" != / ] && rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
@@ -160,7 +165,7 @@
 
 %files -f gimp.files
 %attr (0555, bin, man) %doc AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog MAINTAINERS NEWS README TODO
-%attr (0555, bin, man) %doc docs/*.txt docs/*.eps ABOUT-NLS README.i18n README.perl 
README.win32 TODO
+%attr (0555, bin, man) %doc docs/*.txt ABOUT-NLS README.i18n README.perl README.win32 
+TODO
 %defattr (0444, bin, bin, 0555)
 %dir %{prefix}/share/gimp/%{subver}
 %dir %{prefix}/share/gimp/%{subver}/tips
@@ -225,6 +230,7 @@
 
 %defattr (0444, root, root, 0555)
 %{prefix}/share/aclocal/gimp.m4
+%{prefix}/share/gimp/%{subver}/devel-docs
 
 %{prefix}/lib/*.a
 %{prefix}/lib/gimp/%{subver}/modules/*.a
@@ -236,6 +242,10 @@
 %files perl -f gimp-perl-files
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Dec 29 2000 Marco Lamberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+- updated the install section by adding the DESTDIR environment var to
+  "make install"
+
 * Fri Apr 14 2000 Matt Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 - include subdirs in the help find
 - remove gimp-help-files generation

GIMP 1.2.0 DESTDIR patch

[Marco Lamberto]

Some times ago me and other guys complained about a broken support for building
GIMP's RPMs.
This time I've fixed the main problem related to the "prefix" var used for
installation, now changed into "DESTDIR", and I've attached a patch vs 1.2.0.
I've added the DESTDIR support in the subdirs that still hold the old
installation prefix.
It works even with GIMP perl plug-in but without changing anything in its
subtree.
I hope someone will fix also the broken RPM specfile (the main trouble is the
file listing generation), I've tried for a while but I'm not sure I can fix it
in short time (mainly dued to the poor performance of my home machine -
rebuilding the whole stuff requires about 1h).
Please check the patch and _please_ merge those changes in order to build again
easily and RPMmed GIMP. ;)

Happy GIMPing,
Marco
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--- gimp-1.2.0lm/plug-ins/perl/po/Makefile.in.in.orig   Fri Dec 29 12:13:59 2000
+++ gimp-1.2.0lm/plug-ins/perl/po/Makefile.in.inFri Dec 29 12:14:22 2000
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
*) destdir=$(localedir);; \
  esac; \
  lang=`echo $$cat | sed 's/\$(CATOBJEXT)$$//'`; \
- dir=$$destdir/$$lang/LC_MESSAGES; \
+ dir=$(DESTDIR)$$destdir/$$lang/LC_MESSAGES; \
  if test -r "$(MKINSTALLDIRS)"; then \
$(MKINSTALLDIRS) $$dir; \
  else \
--- gimp-1.2.0lm/plug-ins/perl/Makefile.PL.orig Fri Dec 29 14:03:30 2000
+++ gimp-1.2.0lm/plug-ins/perl/Makefile.PL  Fri Dec 29 14:03:32 2000
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@
$main::dont_embed || (cd embed && \$(MAKE) install)
 
 install-po:
-   cd po && \$(MAKE) install
+#  cd po && \$(MAKE) install
 
 ".$install;
 }
--- gimp-1.2.0lm/plug-ins/Makefile.in.orig  Fri Dec 29 11:27:02 2000
+++ gimp-1.2.0lm/plug-ins/Makefile.in   Fri Dec 29 14:12:30 2000
@@ -226,6 +226,9 @@
local_target="$$target-am"; \
  else \
local_target="$$target"; \
+   if test ! -z "$(DESTDIR)" && test ! -z "$(GIMP_PERL)" && test 
+"$$subdir" = "$(GIMP_PERL)"; then \
+   local_target="PREFIX=$(DESTDIR)$(prefix) 
+gimpplugindir=$(DESTDIR)$(gimpplugindir) $$local_target"; \
+   fi; \
  fi; \
  (cd $$subdir && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) $$local_target) \
   || case "$$amf" in *=*) exit 1;; *k*) fail=yes;; *) exit 1;; esac; \
--- gimp-1.2.0lm/po/Makefile.in.in.orig Sun Dec 24 22:43:05 2000
+++ gimp-1.2.0lm/po/Makefile.in.in  Fri Dec 29 09:51:42 2000
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
*) destdir=$(localedir);; \
  esac; \
  lang=`echo $$cat | sed 's/\$(CATOBJEXT)$$//'`; \
- dir=$$destdir/$$lang/LC_MESSAGES; \
+ dir=$(DESTDIR)$$destdir/$$lang/LC_MESSAGES; \
  if test -r "$(MKINSTALLDIRS)"; then \
$(MKINSTALLDIRS) $$dir; \
  else \
--- gimp-1.2.0lm/po-libgimp/Makefile.in.in.orig Thu Jan 27 11:46:58 2000
+++ gimp-1.2.0lm/po-libgimp/Makefile.in.in  Fri Dec 29 09:53:20 2000
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
*) destdir=$(localedir);; \
  esac; \
  lang=`echo $$cat | sed 's/\$(CATOBJEXT)$$//'`; \
- dir=$$destdir/$$lang/LC_MESSAGES; \
+ dir=$(DESTDIR)$$destdir/$$lang/LC_MESSAGES; \
  if test -r "$(MKINSTALLDIRS)"; then \
$(MKINSTALLDIRS) $$dir; \
  else \
--- gimp-1.2.0lm/po-script-fu/Makefile.in.in.orig   Sat Jun 24 12:46:57 2000
+++ gimp-1.2.0lm/po-script-fu/Makefile.in.inFri Dec 29 09:54:27 2000
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
*) destdir=$(localedir);; \
  esac; \
  lang=`echo $$cat | sed 's/\$(CATOBJEXT)$$//'`; \
- dir=$$destdir/$$lang/LC_MESSAGES; \
+ dir=$(DESTDIR)$$destdir/$$lang/LC_MESSAGES; \
  if test -r "$(MKINSTALLDIRS)"; then \
$(MKINSTALLDIRS) $$dir; \
  else \
--- gimp-1.2.0lm/gimp.spec.in.orig  Wed Nov  8 00:12:01 2000
+++ gimp-1.2.0lm/gimp.spec.in   Fri Dec 29 13:09:17 2000
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
 [ -n "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" -a "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" != / ] && rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/info $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/include \
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/lib $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/bin
-make prefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix} PREFIX=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix} install
+make DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT install
 
 # Strip the executables
 strip $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/bin/gimp
@@ -225,6 +225,7 @@
 
 %defattr (0444, root, root, 0555)

Re: GIMP-1.1.31: Where is gone spheredesigner?

[Marco Lamberto]

On 20 Dec 2000, Michael Natterer wrote:
>> The Makefile in po-plug-ins requires the missing spheredesigner.c source in
>> plug-ins/common.
>Hi Marco,
>this is fixed in CVS.
Thanks, but was really removed the spheredesigner.c plug-in?
The PLUGIN_MAINTAINERS still holds its name and author.
Regards,
Marco
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GIMP-1.1.31: Where is gone spheredesigner?

[Marco Lamberto]

The Makefile in po-plug-ins requires the missing spheredesigner.c source in
plug-ins/common.

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Re: configure, libtool & the install prefix [2]

[Marco Lamberto]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> We build the gimp-perl plugin from the CPAN sources and disable it in
> the GIMP distribution because it makes too much problems there especially
> on recent SPARCs, alphas and ia64. We don't use the BuildRoot features
> of RPM however because it has some issues with Perl which Marco also
> found :)
Ok, you're right, but why everything worked fine till gimp 1.1.24 (the last RPM
I've built through the "standard" gimp.spec)?
I don't think that dropping the RPM support or a clean and easy way for RPMming
the GIMP is a good choice (none would use the "prefix" for a normal
installation except the ones who would build a binary rpm). ;)
Happy GIMPing,
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configure, libtool & the install prefix [2]

[Marco Lamberto]

May be I've posted a stupid question! ;P
I suppose that now the DESTDIR var should be used instead of prefix and PREFIX
when installing elsewhere, however the gimp.spec.in should be changed and
there are few bugs into the Makefile.in.in into some of the po* dirs.
I've attached a patch for fixing those minor problems. ;)
I haven't fixed yet the GIMP Perl plugins installation, please could anyone fix
it or tell me a workaround?
Happy GIMPing,
Marco
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--- ./gimp-1.1.26/po/Makefile.in.in.origFri Sep 22 21:10:56 2000
+++ ./gimp-1.1.26/po/Makefile.in.in Sun Oct  1 14:49:51 2000
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
*) destdir=$(localedir);; \
  esac; \
  lang=`echo $$cat | sed 's/\$(CATOBJEXT)$$//'`; \
- dir=$$destdir/$$lang/LC_MESSAGES; \
+ dir=$(DESTDIR)$$destdir/$$lang/LC_MESSAGES; \
  if test -r "$(MKINSTALLDIRS)"; then \
$(MKINSTALLDIRS) $$dir; \
  else \
--- ./gimp-1.1.26/po-libgimp/Makefile.in.in.origSun Oct  1 14:50:57 2000
+++ ./gimp-1.1.26/po-libgimp/Makefile.in.in Sun Oct  1 14:51:12 2000
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
*) destdir=$(localedir);; \
  esac; \
  lang=`echo $$cat | sed 's/\$(CATOBJEXT)$$//'`; \
- dir=$$destdir/$$lang/LC_MESSAGES; \
+ dir=$(DESTDIR)$$destdir/$$lang/LC_MESSAGES; \
  if test -r "$(MKINSTALLDIRS)"; then \
$(MKINSTALLDIRS) $$dir; \
  else \
--- ./gimp-1.1.26/po-script-fu/Makefile.in.in.orig  Sun Jun 25 21:28:30 2000
+++ ./gimp-1.1.26/po-script-fu/Makefile.in.in   Sun Oct  1 14:52:53 2000
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
*) destdir=$(localedir);; \
  esac; \
  lang=`echo $$cat | sed 's/\$(CATOBJEXT)$$//'`; \
- dir=$$destdir/$$lang/LC_MESSAGES; \
+ dir=$(DESTDIR)$$destdir/$$lang/LC_MESSAGES; \
  if test -r "$(MKINSTALLDIRS)"; then \
$(MKINSTALLDIRS) $$dir; \
  else \
--- ./gimp-1.1.26/gimp.spec.in.orig Sat Aug 19 18:08:46 2000
+++ ./gimp-1.1.26/gimp.spec.in  Sun Oct  1 14:48:41 2000
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
 [ -n "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" -a "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" != / ] && rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/info $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/include \
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/lib $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/bin
-make prefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix} PREFIX=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix} install
+make DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT PREFIX=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix} install
 
 # Strip the executables
 strip $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/bin/gimp
@@ -230,6 +230,10 @@
 %files perl -f gimp-perl-files
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Oct 01 2000 Marco Lamberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+- updated the install section by adding the DESTDIR environment var to
+  "make install"
+
 * Fri Apr 14 2000 Matt Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 - include subdirs in the help find
 - remove gimp-help-files generation

configure, libtool & the install prefix

[Marco Lamberto]

I've got a little trouble while rebuilding the rpm of gimp 1.1.26, when running
the "make prefix={a_new_prefix} install" it tries to install into "/usr"
discarding the "prefix" and "PREFIX" values.
I should update someting or someone has forgotten something? ;)
Actually I've installed the following tools:
 autoconf-2.13
 libtool-1.3.4
 automake-1.4

Happy GIMPing,
Marco
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GDynText 1.5.2 Updated

[Marco Lamberto]

I've "simply" merged the 1.5.0 from gimp CVS with 1.5.1.

You can dowload it from the GIMP plug-ins registry:
  < http://registry.gimp.org/detailview.phtml?plugin=gdyntext >

or here:
  < http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/1474/gimp/plugins/gdyntext.tgz >

Happy GIMPing,
Marco
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GDYNTEXT 1.5.1 Updated

[Marco Lamberto]

I've fixed a silly bug into the startup code that prevented gDynText starting
the first time from getting the current color and turning on the antialias.

You can dowload it from the GIMP plug-ins registry:
  < http://registry.gimp.org/detailview.phtml?plugin=gdyntext >

or in the next days here (actually is still 1.5.0!):
  < http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/1474/gimp/plugins/gdyntext.tgz >

Happy GIMPing,
Marco
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Re: Gif Comment

[Marco Lamberto]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Chetan Dhavse wrote:
>HI everybody
>I use perl as a scripting language 
>gimp allows user to  include a gif comment while saving the gif image
>How can i achive this dynamically
>Chetan

Try attaching a comment parasite to the image before saving it.
Look into the docs dir of the gimp source tree and search for the parasites.txt
file, here is written the right name for the required parasite (actually I
can't remember that). ;)
Happy GIMPing,
Marco
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Re: Alpha Channel

[Marco Lamberto]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Chetan Dhavse wrote:
>Can someone explain me what is a channel (alpha,etc)
>why and when it is used
The alpha channel is used for layer transparency.
Tha alpha value specify for each pixel how much transparent should be.
However I think that this question should have been posted to gimp-user. ;)
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Re: gDynText 1.5.0 is out!

[Marco Lamberto]

On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Sven Neumann wrote:
>Shall we update the version in gimp CVS or is this code considered
>to be unstable compared to the version we ship with gimp now ?
>There are a few bugs regarding the GDynText plug-in listed at the
>gimp bugtracker. Does this version fix those problems?
The broken unit "point" was fixed.
The line spacing and aligment "bug" is dued to the values returned by the
gimp_text_extents, so it isn't totally my fault. ;)
I've tested it for a while and I think that gDynText 1.5.0 is as stable as the
1.4.3 shipped with gimp 1.1.x. ;)
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Re: gDynText 1.5.0-RC3

[Marco Lamberto]

On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
>hi, i just tried out the new gdyntext and found it really well-done.
>the graphic guy here does not think so... here are some comments from him:
>
>1/ kerning is missing. it would be great to have kerning and the ability
>   to apply it selectively to parts of the text. that is:
>
>   ciao marco -> (i select `o mar' and apply some kerning) -> ciao  m a rco
I know that, however, if I remember well, X11 can't allow kerning control, I
should use t1lib and the freetype libraries for implementing a new font
rendering engine (however this will require to have installed properly those
libraries in order to allow gDynText to run ...).
Is there anyone with a better solution for the "kerning problem"? ;)

>2/ changing font changes the font for all the text. it would be nice to 
>   be able to write with different fonts and apply them selectively, just
>   like the kerning.
>3/ idem for the color and other font attributes...
Eh, eh, I know that!! I'll work on those features as soon as possible! ;))

>he said that will abandon photoshop if only the text in gimp is a little
>better... :)
I'm working (also for you)! ;))
Happy GIMPing,
Marco
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gDynText 1.5.0-RC3

[Marco Lamberto]

A new release is available at:
 
Feedback (expecially for the new user interface) and bug reports are welcome.
Happy GIMPing!
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parasite lost ? [2] ("quick" workaround for gDynText)

[Marco Lamberto]

Copy the layer by dragging it from the source image to the target one.
Edit the source layer and hold the shift key while pressing the Ok button,
this will force gDynText to store the parasite data into the layer name.
Edit the target layer name and copy the source layer name containing the
"dumped" parasite.

Happy GIMPing,
Marco
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Re: parasite lost ?

[Marco Lamberto]

On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
>The easiest way to copy a layer to another image is to drag it from the
>layers dialog to the other image. I am not sure if it copies the parasite
>information but I think it should if it doesnt already.
Cool, I've never noticed that!!
Tested! No, it doesn't copy the parasited stuff ... anyone wanting to fix it?
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Re: parasite lost ?

[Marco Lamberto]

On Wed, 31 May 2000, FUJITA Yuji wrote:
>Hi, dear developers.
>I hope copying gdynamic text layer to another image to keep
>text/font/colour/layout informations.
>As I don't understand parasites, please forgive me if I'm claiming
>something funny.

No, I've tested it with gimp 1.1.22 and it seems you're right! ;)
If I remember well hitting ctrl+c on a layer whithout active selection on gimp
1.0.x results in copying the whole layer, while now it doesn't.
I think that doing a (full) layer copy between two images is quite important in
many cases (and gDynText "parasited" layers is one)!!
There's anyone that could tell me more about this matter?? ;)

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Marco
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gDynText 1.5.0-RC2

[Marco Lamberto]

Hi GIMPers!
I'm actually working on a new release of my plug-in, I've succesfully
integrated the gtk_font_selection with my font_slection widget even if
externally nothing seems to be changed!!
I hope this will be a BIG NEWS for everybody here was waiting for a better
support for font choosing in this plug-in (specially for the font encoding)! ;)
Actually 1.5.0-RC2 is totally incompatible with previous releases of gDynText,
but I've planned to re-add the compatibilty routines into the final release.
I've finally dropped the support for gimp 1.0.x series and cutted every
unecessary #ifdef block. ;)

Is there someone so brave to dare testing it for a while? ;)
You could download it from:
<http://download.sourceforge.net/gdyntext/gdyntext-1.5.0-RC2.tgz>

If everything works fine and no serious bugs will be found, I hope to release
the final 1.5.0 by the end of this week.
Happy GIMPing!
Marco

P.S. Please, could anyone update the PLUGIN_MAINTAINERS file into the CVS tree
in order to add me (Marco Lamberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) as the maintainer of
gdyntext? ;)
Thanks in advance. ;)
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Re: BUG: gdyntext is dead

[Marco Lamberto]

On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Uwe Koloska wrote:
>Because there was a suggestion that xfree86-3.3.5 can be the reason, I
>upgraded to 3.3.6 but nothing changes.  The new text layer is a small
>rectangle in the upper left corner ...
I've tested gDynText with my Linux box, recently upgraded to RH 6.2, and it
still works! ;)
Have you tried in changing the text rendering font? 

Happy gimping,
Marco
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Re: Re: Performance

[Marco Lamberto]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Andrew Kieschnick wrote:
>> I use SuSE Linux 6.2. I have 128 MB RAM. I use the default values for
>> tile caching. I have a EIDE IBM 6,4 GB and 10 GB. I use on both a 128
>> MB partition as swap.
>You should definitely increase your tile cache size from the default 10mb. 
>It should help performance.
Yes, you're right. ;)

However I've noticed that GIMP 1.1.15 has a little bug when changing this
value with the Preferences dialog. It seems to be fixed to 10Mb, the only way
is changing manually gimprc. ;)
I've discovered this bug this morning, I'm not sure at all is a true bug,
I haven't checked the sources yet.
Anyone experienced the same problem?
Happy GIMPing!
Marco
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Re: gdyntext & non iso8859-1 fonts

[Marco Lamberto]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, David Monniaux wrote:
>An user of cyrillic fonts told me gdyntext didn't have a way to change
>character sets. He can't select koi8-r.
Mhh, ok, that's the last one ...
I'll work for using the standard font selector instead of mine. ;)
Happy GIMPing!
Marco
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GDynText 1.4.4 RELEASED!

[Marco Lamberto]

A new version of the GDynText plugin is available.
I've fixed an undo related bug, now you can undo layer changes and parasites
changes in one step (only one ctrl+z). ;)
You can download it from the plugin registry or at:
  http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/1474/gimp/

And now some developer's related notes! ;)
First of all I've merged some code changes made into the gdyntext shipped with
gimp 1.1.14. However, I don't know who swapped the "Apply" and "Cancel"
buttons, but I don't think that this layout will help users ("Apply" usually
stays between "Ok" and "Cancel"), so I've kept the old one.
I needed to include libgimp/stdplugins-intl.h, which isn't installed with the
other includes but it's only available within the sources tree!

Happy GIMPing! ;)
Marco
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Missing function in gimpcompat.h

[Marco Lamberto]

Someone has forgotten to place a #define for "gimp_drawable_find_parasite"
into libgimp/gimpcompat.h! ;)

Please add (hey, don't tell me you need a patch! ;) ):
  #define gimp_drawable_find_parasite gimp_drawable_parasite_find

Thanks
Marco
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Re: swap files

[Marco Lamberto]

On Sat, 09 Oct 1999, Adrian Likins wrote:
>   If I recall correctly, this has been suggested a few times
>and made it into released versions of gimp at least once, only to be removed
>later for reasons I do not recall. Seems like some sort of portability issues
>perhaps, but its been a long time. The easiest way to remember why it got
>removed is probabaly to put it back in though and see who yells ;->
How about putting the unlink() call inside the signal handler that traps the
crashes? This behavior would be nicer than unlinking the swap file after
it's creation.
Also because I don't think that this will work well when gimp is running on
HP-UX and NFS (but I'm not completly sure of that).
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