[Gimp-user] CMYK and Postscript output.
I note that the newest version of Gimp will allow for vector layers in some way. This is a very positive step. But I haven't heard about CMYK color model lately. Since my major use is in preparing materials for print this would not be a step but a leap forward. Are there plans for anything new on the CMYK front? Ideally (for printers) Gimp would output a postscript or even a pdf file using vectors instead of bitmaps and with colors expressed in cmyk terms. Is such a capability on the drawing board yet? -- John Culleton Short list of publishing/marketing books: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Print command
Matthias Julius wrote: Patrick Shanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you trying to print from a gimp image - File - Print ? If so, set the print dialogue screen to your printer via the drop down box and print direct from gimp. You do not need to worry about -C name. I have an Epson sp925photo and the print-command which gimp selects for my printer is: lp -s -desp925gp -oraw If this is *not* what you are trying to do, please explain further. Yes I am printing from the Gimp print dialog. And changing the printer in the printer setup does not affect the print command Gimp is choosing. And it is printing fine as I wrote in my original post. The only problem I have is that in the print job list every print job from Gimp has the name '(stdin)'. I would like the name of the printed file to appear there and from the lpr side this is done via the '-C' option. Now I need Gimp to insert the file name into the print command. So the print command specification in the printer setup should be something like 'lpr -C $filename' where Gimp is replacing $filename with the actual file name. BTW, I am printing through CUPS. I don't know whether CUPS' lpr differs from standard lpr. If in fact GIMP is printing via stdin, there will not be a file name associated. I suspect that you'll be out of luck as GIMP is probably not 'aware' of the file name at this point. After all, it may not even have a file name if you've just created the image. This is all speculation, thus you should likely wait to hear from someone who really knows. :) Matthias ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Until later, Geoffrey ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] CMYK and Postscript output.
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 11:45, John Culleton wrote: I note that the newest version of Gimp will allow for vector layers in some way. This is a very positive step. But I haven't heard about CMYK color model lately. Since my major use is in preparing materials for print this would not be a step but a leap forward. Are there plans for anything new on the CMYK front? Ideally (for printers) Gimp would output a postscript or even a pdf file using vectors instead of bitmaps and with colors expressed in cmyk terms. Is such a capability on the drawing board yet? Hi! No. The CMYK color modle shall be made available when the GIMP gets integrated with GEGL - GEneric Graphics Library - a project started by the Gimp developers themselves to more or less become the Gimp core. Them we will have 16bit and floating point color depths, and CMYK. Unfortunattely, GEGL is a bit late. What is actually needed for professional pritners is not CMYK, though, but color profiling. There is some rough support for color profiling already, and the panas are to make it a lot better for GIMP 2.4 - which will be the other (not the very soom stable, which will be 2.2) stable GIMP. As for postscript output - if you want vector output, you probably are looking at the wrong software. There are inkscape and sodipody which work with vector graphics. I had implemented a script to output GIMP paths to postscript tough. Due to limitations on the vectors API on gimp 2.0, and gimp 2.2 it will not work with all vectors, but can work with vectors with closed componnents only. I did it because from time to time I hand craft some postscript apps, and this was a nice way to get drawings into my own postscripts. You will find this script at: http://hopey.nervo.org/~gwidion/gimp ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Print command
Ok, so -- there is no way to do what you want. The only way would be to implement it into the print plugin, possibly making it exapand %f on this field to the filename. On Tuesday 23 November 2004 00:23, Matthias Julius wrote: (...) Yes I am printing from the Gimp print dialog. And changing the printer in the printer setup does not affect the print command Gimp is choosing. And it is printing fine as I wrote in my original post. The only problem I have is that in the print job list every print job from Gimp has the name '(stdin)'. I would like the name of the printed file to appear there and from the lpr side this is done via the '-C' option. Now I need Gimp to insert the file name into the print command. So the print command specification in the printer setup should be something like 'lpr -C $filename' where Gimp is replacing $filename with the actual file name. BTW, I am printing through CUPS. I don't know whether CUPS' lpr differs from standard lpr. Matthias ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Re: Print command
Geoffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If in fact GIMP is printing via stdin, there will not be a file name associated. I suspect that you'll be out of luck as GIMP is probably not 'aware' of the file name at this point. After all, it may not even have a file name if you've just created the image. This is all speculation, thus you should likely wait to hear from someone who really knows. :) I got a message from Sven per mail explaining that this is not available yet and I should talk to the developers of the print plugin. Although this mail was CC'd to the list it did not come through gmane yet. However, if it is not the filename it could be the window name of the image window that is being printed. That usually includes the filename. Matthias ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] changing the size of brushes in 2.2 pre2
I read that it is possible create a scalable brush in 2.2 pre2. How do i bind keys to the brush properties so that i don't have to go to brush editor everytime i need to change the size? __ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] changing the size of brushes in 2.2 pre2
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 16:38, Napoleon Ahiable wrote: I read that it is possible create a scalable brush in 2.2 pre2. How do i bind keys to the brush properties so that i don't have to go to brush editor everytime i need to change the size? File-preferences-interface-configure keyboard shortcuts. __ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] reloading of python-fu scripts
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Stefaan Lippens wrote: Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 19:48:15 + From: Stefaan Lippens [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Gimp-user] reloading of python-fu scripts Is it possible to reload python-fu scripts without restarting the Gimp, like Xtns/Script-fu/Refresh Scripts for script-fu? They should reload automatically. I had problems with temp-files.py~ being picked up instead of the real file so you should set your editor to store temp files elsewhere if you are editing them directly. - Alan ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
