[Gimp-user] Font formats in GIMP

2005-05-21 Thread Barton Bosch
This might be slightly OT, my apologies if it causes any inconvenience. I just got some new fonts and am not quite sure how/if I can use some of them. The TTF fonts are familiar; I just put them into my font directory. There are also a few .AFM (Adobe?) fonts. I found other .afm files on

Re: [Gimp-user] How to change font size?

2005-05-15 Thread Barton Bosch
David Adam wrote: Greetings, helpful people! I need to add annotation to images, but cannot figure out what to do to change the font size. The documentation clearly states that this is easy to do, but I have been unable to find out how to do it under Gimp 2.2. In particular, Tools - Text and

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.2.6 on Fedora Core 3

2005-04-19 Thread Barton Bosch
Owen Cook wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Barton Bosch wrote: cut So, two main questions: 1) is there a way to compile atk and fontconfig in parallel to the already installed rpms (as the gimp 2.2.6 was) and then pass a configure option or edit a script to have gimp use the new versions?; and, 2

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.2.6 on Fedora Core 3

2005-04-18 Thread Barton Bosch
Owen Cook wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Asif Lodhi wrote: chop OK, go to your gimp-2.2.6 directory type ./configure --help and have a read, even it it means little You will see how to install in another prefix, example ./configure --prefix=/opt will configure so that it is built in /opt

Re: [Gimp-user] Layers merging on exit

2005-01-14 Thread Barton Bosch
Ryan Coyner wrote: Hey guys. I'm having some problems with layers, and if any of you can help me find a solution, I'd appreciate it. When I quit (after saving) the gimp while working a project with multiple layers, all the layers seem to merge into one called Background when I open it up again. Is

Re: [Gimp-user] Curving an image

2004-11-13 Thread Barton Bosch
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Barton Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You're probably way ahead of me on this but wouldn't a larger preview window and an expanded UI (e.g., like the path tool) be great with Iwarp? Maybe implementing it as a tool rather than a filter would be in order as well? Sure

Re: [Gimp-user] Curving an image

2004-11-12 Thread Barton Bosch
Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris wrote: On Wednesday 10 November 2004 06:44, Carol Spears wrote: On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 03:44:52PM -0800, Barton Bosch wrote: What are the best ways to take an image of a straight line and bend it into an s-curve with The GIMP? I have tried the perspective and shear

Re: [Gimp-user] Curving an image

2004-11-12 Thread Barton Bosch
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Barton Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Huh, I tried the Iwarp filter but it seems to be broken (GIMP 2.0.4 from the FC2 rpm). It showed the layer in the preview window but regardless of any changes in parameters it didn't alter the image at all. Did I miss something

[Gimp-user] Curving an image

2004-11-09 Thread Barton Bosch
What are the best ways to take an image of a straight line and bend it into an s-curve with The GIMP? I have tried the perspective and shear tools as well as the distort-curve bend filter without producing an ideal result. Are there other options? I'd like to be able to set some points and

[Gimp-user] unsharp mask and jpg with quality setting change

2004-10-02 Thread Barton Bosch
I have some 1200 dpi scans that need to be scaled down, sharpened with unsharp mask and then saved as jpgs at ~50% quality setting. Should the operations be performed in the order above or would it be better to scale-save as 50% qual jpg-unsharp mask-save as 100% qual jpg? Thanks, Barton

Re: [Gimp-user] unsharp mask and jpg with quality setting change

2004-10-02 Thread Barton Bosch
Carol Spears wrote: On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 02:07:43PM -0700, Barton Bosch wrote: I have some 1200 dpi scans that need to be scaled down, sharpened with unsharp mask and then saved as jpgs at ~50% quality setting. i am curious for the reason for saving at the 50% quality setting. fiddling

Re: [Gimp-user] dpi from 75 - 300 ??

2004-09-14 Thread Barton Bosch
While we're on the topic of scaling/resampling maybe someone could clarify something for me. I read somewhere that when scaling an image for display on a monitor that it was best to change the dpi by the same ratio to avoid interpolation. Elsewhere I have gotten the impression that dpi was

[Gimp-user] Re: GIMP 2.0.1 and Fedora Core 1

2004-06-13 Thread Barton Bosch
John Dietsch wrote: On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Barton Bosch wrote: Should I take it that installing the new GIMP on FC1 is not significantly easier than on rh 9 (shrike)? It is the same. What are people's experiences re: GIMP 2.x and FC1? Is it the same nightmare of rebuilding gtk2

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: GIMP 2.0.1 and Fedora Core 1

2004-06-13 Thread Barton Bosch
Michael Schumacher wrote: snip I have only done a bit of checking into the newer distros, but isn't FC2 a 64 bit OS? That would make it incompatible with my PIII 550, correct? Don't start spreading FUD. From http://fedora.redhat.com Sorry, no FUD intended. The info I got: CPU Requirements

[Gimp-user] GIMP 2.0.1 and Fedora Core 1

2004-06-12 Thread Barton Bosch
John Dietsch wrote: snip Greg, For Fedora, you need to learn to use yum. If you installed FC from an RPM, it should already be there. Check in /etc for yum.conf . If it's not there, go to the source where you got the Fedora RPM and install yum. For the new Gimp you need to be in Fedora

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP compilation meltdown; xachs rpms

2004-05-08 Thread Barton Bosch
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Barton Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I do have another question, re: the Perl plugin though. When trying to compile it it says that it can't find gimp when it tries to run the test program: checking for GIMP - version = 2.0.0... no *** Could not run GIMP test program

Re: [Gimp-user] More GIMP compilation questions and some answers

2004-05-06 Thread Barton Bosch
Owen wrote: On Mon, 03 May 2004 16:52:52 -0700 Barton Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: checking for aa_printf in -laa... no configure: WARNING: *** AA plug-in will not be built (AA library not found) *** ... checking for libgtkhtml-2.0 = 2.0.0... Package libgtkhtml-2.0 was not found in the pkg

Re: [Gimp-user] Basic GIMP compilation question

2004-05-03 Thread Barton Bosch
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Barton Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am running a Red Hat 9.0 system that currently has GIMP 1.2.3 installed on it. I'd like to check out 2.0 and have been trying to figure out how to get it together. I haven't compiled much large, involved software yet so I am

[Gimp-user] More GIMP compilation questions

2004-05-03 Thread Barton Bosch
Thanks to the link to the Red Hat 9.0 RPMs (kudos to xach) I've gotten my system updated far enough to attempt to compile gimp 2.0.1 from source. I've compiled and installed many of the optional packages as well. I am running into a couple of warning messages though, re: gtkhtml2 and the