Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] Opening Photoshop Files

2002-02-10 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 12:41 PM 2/8/2002 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: >Leonard Rosenthol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Will it still use FreeType for the actual rendering of the > > glyphs? And if not, then what? > >yes, it will use Freetype2 but somewhat hidden behind a Pango layer. Excellent!!

[Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] Opening Photoshop Files

2002-02-10 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Dov Grobgeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hebrew with vowel positioning has also been ported by me to ft2. > > See > http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/Hebrew/pango-hebrew.html > http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/freesw/paps > > for some screen shots and utilities. oh, I wasn't aw

[Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] Opening Photoshop Files

2002-02-10 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Hebrew with vowel positioning has also been ported by me to ft2. See http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/Hebrew/pango-hebrew.html http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/freesw/paps for some screen shots and utilities. Regards, Dov On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 07:22:09PM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote:

[Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] Opening Photoshop Files

2002-02-10 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Dov Grobgeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > yes, it will use Freetype2 but somewhat hidden behind a Pango layer. > > The advantage of using Pango on top of Freetype2 is that it takes care > > of all the ugly details of glyph positioning and shaping. > > And you get all the beautiful render

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] Opening Photoshop Files

2002-02-08 Thread Branko Collin
On 8 Feb 2002, at 22:02, Andrew Duhan wrote: > On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 13:37, Sven Neumann wrote: > > > Let's see what we can do about the path tool. Simon started to hack > > on this, but I have no idea how far he's come. On the other hand we > > should probably decide on the feature-set for 1.4 s

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] Opening Photoshop Files

2002-02-08 Thread Andrew Duhan
On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 13:37, Sven Neumann wrote: > Let's see what we can do about the path tool. Simon started to hack on > this, but I have no idea how far he's come. On the other hand we > should probably decide on the feature-set for 1.4 soon and I don't > think we should try to add sophistic

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] Opening Photoshop Files

2002-02-08 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, "Adam D. Moss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think it'd still be a fair comparison if you closed the > layers dialog -- an image with 1000s of layers is probably > not expected to be managable sanely with what amounts to > a list paradigm. I decided to turn off layer previews when the lay

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] Opening Photoshop Files

2002-02-08 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Leonard Rosenthol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 8:37 PM +0100 2/7/02, Sven Neumann wrote: > >I hope do be able to complete the new text tool anytime soon and it > >is supposed to give you even better rendering than gimp-freetype > >combined with the features of GDynText. > > Will i

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] Opening Photoshop Files

2002-02-07 Thread Adam D. Moss
Sven Neumann wrote: > Script-Fu is still adding layers while I write this and the count is > approaching 4000 layers of 16x16 pixels here. At the moment gimp uses > about 330MB of virtual memory (256MB physical RAM). The script has > (gimp-displays-flush) after (gimp-image-add-layer ...), so the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] Opening Photoshop Files

2002-02-07 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 8:37 PM +0100 2/7/02, Sven Neumann wrote: >I hope do be able to complete the new text tool anytime soon and it >is supposed to give you even better rendering than gimp-freetype >combined with the features of GDynText. Will it still use FreeType for the actual rendering of the glyphs?

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] Opening Photoshop Files

2002-02-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, "Branko Collin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 7 Feb 2002, at 9:29, Jon Winters wrote: > > > Went to an Adobe conference yesterday and they claim photoshop 6 has > > been tested with images up to 8000 layers. They said it can probably > > handle more but that is where they stopped testin

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] Opening Photoshop Files

2002-02-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Raphael Quinet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We need a big merge and re-write of GFig, GDynText, the FreeType > plug-in, the Path tool and the layers dialog in order to make all of > this possible. This is not a trivial task. I am not opposed to it > and I think that it would be a very goo

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] Opening Photoshop Files

2002-02-07 Thread Branko Collin
On 7 Feb 2002, at 9:29, Jon Winters wrote: > Went to an Adobe conference yesterday and they claim photoshop 6 has > been tested with images up to 8000 layers. They said it can probably > handle more but that is where they stopped testing. How many layers > are we supporting? (heh... memory is

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] Opening Photoshop Files

2002-02-07 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Thu, 07 Feb 2002, Jon Winters wrote: > Went to an Adobe conference yesterday and they claim photoshop 6 has been > tested with images up to 8000 layers. They said it can probably handle > more but that is where they stopped testing. How many layers are we > supporting? (heh... memory is

[Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] Opening Photoshop Files

2002-02-07 Thread Jon Winters
Went to an Adobe conference yesterday and they claim photoshop 6 has been tested with images up to 8000 layers. They said it can probably handle more but that is where they stopped testing. How many layers are we supporting? (heh... memory is cheap!) There were also some very interesting new