Re: [Gimp-user] Programmatically modifying text in .xcf files.

2007-07-26 Thread Simon Budig
John R. Culleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thursday 26 July 2007, mal content wrote: Is there a tool or method available to safely and reliably modify this text (replace it with other text) from the shell, or some other interface that doesn't require me to open 100 or so files in

Re: [Gimp-user] Programmatically modifying text in .xcf files.

2007-07-26 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 19:11 +0100, mal content wrote: I have a large number of xcf files that have a section of text embedded in them. Is there a tool or method available to safely and reliably modify this text (replace it with other text) from the shell, or some other interface that

Re: [Gimp-user] Programmatically modifying text in .xcf files.

2007-07-26 Thread Bruce Bertrand
On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 21:03 +0100, mal content wrote: On 26/07/07, John R. Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't know :( I thought you meant a sentence or two. Gimp is not the optimum approach for long text passages IMO. Sounds more like a job for a page layout program or even html.

Re: [Gimp-user] Programmatically modifying text in .xcf files.

2007-07-26 Thread mal content
On 26/07/07, John R. Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are on a Linux or similar platform something along the lines of awk or sed could be possible approaches. I quote from an old manual: The advantages of sed are that it can apply the same editing comands to many files; it can edit

Re: [Gimp-user] Programmatically modifying text in .xcf files.

2007-07-26 Thread John R. Culleton
On Thursday 26 July 2007, mal content wrote: Hello. I have a large number of xcf files that have a section of text embedded in them. Is there a tool or method available to safely and reliably modify this text (replace it with other text) from the shell, or some other interface that doesn't

Re: [Gimp-user] Getting Screenshots directly into GIMP on different, operating systems

2007-07-26 Thread David Gowers
On 7/27/07, Mark Szymanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, no. On Linux/X11/DWM, for example, it does.. precisely nothing. Gnome includes that keybinding you mention, so it will work if you are running Gnome, but not KDE. Also-- does a Mac keyboard even HAVE a PrintScreen key? Google

Re: [Gimp-user] Getting Screenshots directly into GIMP on different, operating systems

2007-07-26 Thread Mark Szymanski
Message: 7 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:22:30 +0930 From: David Gowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Getting Screenshots directly into GIMP on different operationg systems To: Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Gimp Users List gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Message-ID:

Re: [Gimp-user] Programmatically modifying text in .xcf files.

2007-07-26 Thread John R. Culleton
On Thursday 26 July 2007, mal content wrote: On 26/07/07, John R. Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't know :( I thought you meant a sentence or two. Gimp is not the optimum approach for long text passages IMO. Sounds more like a job for a page layout program or even html. What kind of

Re: [Gimp-user] Programmatically modifying text in .xcf files.

2007-07-26 Thread mal content
On 26/07/07, John R. Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't know :( I thought you meant a sentence or two. Gimp is not the optimum approach for long text passages IMO. Sounds more like a job for a page layout program or even html. What kind of files are they? Are they intended for online

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-user Digest, Vol 58, Issue 35

2007-07-26 Thread Dave Guard
Hi, Someone please remove me from the list. I've tried the instructions that come with each email several times but my email requests bounce and the login doesn't accept my password. Hitting the unsubscribe button does nothing and trying to change my password doesn't seem to send an email at all.

Re: [Gimp-user] Programmatically modifying text in .xcf files.

2007-07-26 Thread John R. Culleton
On Thursday 26 July 2007, mal content wrote: On 26/07/07, John R. Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are on a Linux or similar platform something along the lines of awk or sed could be possible approaches. I quote from an old manual: The advantages of sed are that it can apply the

[Gimp-user] Adventures in MacPorts Land (continued)

2007-07-26 Thread Victor Domingos
Hi! I tryed to contact the fontconfig port maintainer, but had no responde yet. Meanwhile, I have uninstalled macports and tryed it all from start. I reinstalled MP and tryed to build gimp-dev again. Everything seemed to go ok, but I was not able to run it. Like a friend of mine, I get the