Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavoir with big images and memory

2005-04-24 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 08:03:07PM -0600, jim feldman wrote: I'm working with scanned medium format film images that are TIFF's of 100MB each. The GIMP environment is gimp 2.2.6 (built from ports about a week ago) on FreeBSD 5.3 Release. The display is a Linux (RH9) box. The tiff's are

Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavoir with big images and memory

2005-04-24 Thread jim feldman
my options are tiff, jpg and pdf.  Of possible interest is that if I read in (using TC set to 400mb) one of the big tiff's, write it back out as a xcf (GIMP native), set the TC up to 600, read back the xcf, and it still crashes with the same errors.why doesn't GIMP like TIFF?Quoting Carol Spears

Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavoir with big images and memory

2005-04-24 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:43:00AM -0600, jim feldman wrote: my options are tiff, jpg and pdf.? Of possible interest is that if I read in (using TC set to 400mb) one of the big tiff's, write it back out as a xcf (GIMP native), set the TC up to 600, read back the xcf, and it still crashes

Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavoir with big images and memory

2005-04-24 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris
On Sunday 24 April 2005 15:42, Carol Spears wrote: On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:43:00AM -0600, jim feldman wrote: my options are tiff, jpg and pdf.? Of possible interest is that if I read in (using TC set to 400mb) one of the big tiff's, write it back out as a xcf (GIMP native), set the TC

Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavoir with big images and memory

2005-04-24 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:43:00AM -0600, jim feldman wrote: what i learned about pdf from the openicc mail list. long ago when i was first able to read and make pdf on my little linux computer, my pdf looked terrible on my computer and the pdf i was able to make did not look good displayed on

Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavoir with big images and memory

2005-04-24 Thread Asif Lodhi
Hi Jim, Though I have never worked with such large images, don't you think it would be a good idea to save each TIFF as XCF, do whatever you want to do on XCF and then save the modified XCF as TIFF again? May be odd behavior will go away that way because XCF is the native file format. May be

Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavoir with big images and memory

2005-04-24 Thread jim feldman
Quoting Asif Lodhi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Jim, Though I have never worked with such large images, don't you think it would be a good idea to save each TIFF as XCF, do whatever you want to do on XCF and then save the modified XCF as TIFF again? May be odd behavior will go away that way

Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavoir with big images and memory

2005-04-24 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris
On Sunday 24 April 2005 21:06, jim feldman wrote: Quoting Asif Lodhi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Jim, Though I have never worked with such large images, don't you think it would be a good idea to save each TIFF as XCF, do whatever you want to do on XCF and then save the modified XCF

[Gimp-user] Coloring questions

2005-04-24 Thread Andrew Robinson
I'm trying to build menus for DVDs which are sensitive to the number of colors in the pgn files. I've got two related (I think) questions concerning coloring in The Gimp. I want to create a layer with text on it that will be used as labels for buttons. I want the text to be in a single color