[Gimp-user] GIMP won't support installed printer?
GIMP Users, I don't quite understand how printer support in GIMP/Gutenprint is handled. I have my Canon Pixus iP3100 printer installed and working fin with Linux. However, that particular model is not listed in the list of supported printers within GIMP. I hope this question won't offend advocates of GIMP by sounding accusatory, because I am sincerely just wondering: why would I need specific support within GIMP for my printer when the drivers I've installed for CUPS/Linux provide printer support for every other application? I certainly don't intend to start any heated threads on the matter. My basic motivation for asking is because I am getting strange behavior when trying to print from within GIMP, and I'm trying to determine where the root of the problem is. Sometimes when I send an image, the printer flashes it's indicator light to signify that it's receiving data, but then prints nothing. A couple of times it did print something. One time it printed much too large to fit within a single A4 page, the other time it squeezed everything down to half an A4 page. So, since my printer isn't listed as officially supported by GIMP, does that mean I can't use it to print from GIMP? If it is possible, are there extra steps I can take to ensure correct printing behavior? Thank you for any information or advice. -- Dave M G Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft Kernel 2.6.17.7 Pentium D Dual Core Processor PHP 5, MySQL 5, Apache 2 ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP won't support installed printer?
I also have had a problem printing from Gimp. I attempted to print an image and for my efforts I received a floor full of paper, some completely blank, others with a line of garbage at the top of the page. I printed the same image by displaying it in firefox and used its print feature. I never investigated it any further since I did get my picture, but I suspect someday I'll want to print directly from gimp so I'm very interested in following this thread. Jim. On 2/23/07, Dave M G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GIMP Users, I don't quite understand how printer support in GIMP/Gutenprint is handled. I have my Canon Pixus iP3100 printer installed and working fin with Linux. However, that particular model is not listed in the list of supported printers within GIMP. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Anti-aliasing off from selecting with path
Dave M G ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If I create a region with the path tool, and then use the path to create a selection, it seems to be anti-aliased by default. I've turned off anti-aliasing in the tool options for all the selection tools - rectangular, circular, and magic wand - and yet converting from a path to a selection remains anti-aliased. Is there a way to get the anti-aliasing to turn off when making selections by this method? My main goal is to be able to select regions by clicking point by point and having straight lines between them. So far as I know, in GIMP this is accomplished by using the path tool and then converting to a selection. However, considering the above issue, if there's another way to create a selection by clicking a series of points, and have it not anti-aliased, that would be cool too. One workaround is, to Select-Sharpen after creating the selection. This will remove all antialiasing. I hope this helps, Simon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://simon.budig.de/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Remove white patches at corner
Hi, Our business logo was designed by a professional. At this point of time, the person who created the logo is not available to edit the image. I have posted the images at the following link: http://binaryvibes.in/test/test.php The image has white patches around the circumference and around the alphabets BINARY. When I reduce the image to lesser size, 100x144 it looks very awkward. I have been trying to remove those white patches for two days. I haven't been successful. Can anybody tell me how to remove those white patches and make the image neat? I'm novice in Graphics editing. GIMP is the only graphics editing software I have on my Linux computer. With Warm Regards, Sudheer ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Remove white patches at corner
On 2/23/07, Sudheer Satyanarayana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Our business logo was designed by a professional. At this point of time, the person who created the logo is not available to edit the image. I have posted the images at the following link: http://binaryvibes.in/test/test.php The image has white patches around the circumference and around the alphabets BINARY. When I reduce the image to lesser size, 100x144 it looks very awkward. I have been trying to remove those white patches for two days. I haven't been successful. Can anybody tell me how to remove those white patches and make the image neat? I'm novice in Graphics editing. GIMP is the only graphics editing software I have on my Linux computer. With Warm Regards, Sudheer You could try selecting only the purple area, invert the selection, and then clear all. Or zoom in real tight, and erase those offending pixels. -- Anthony Ettinger Ph: 408-656-2473 http://chovy.dyndns.org/resume.html http://utuxia.com/consulting ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Remove white patches at corner
Sudheer Satyanarayana wrote: http://binaryvibes.in/test/test.php The image has white patches around the circumference and around the alphabets BINARY. When I reduce the image to lesser size, 100x144 it looks very awkward. I have been trying to remove those white patches for two days. I haven't been successful. Can anybody tell me how to remove those white patches and make the image neat? Sudheer, others may have a better method, but I was playing around with the image a little. Before I begin, remember that if you are working with a gif and if you are attempting to use transparency, only square edges will look sharp, while round edges will appear jagged, since gif only supports on/off transparency for any given pixel. .png images would look smooth on round edges but are not widely supported by all but the newest Internet Explorer version; hence roughly 70% (an estimate) of all browsers/versions will not show it correctly. Here is what I suggest. Create a new layer and give it the color your webpage background will have. Go back to the logo layer and select ALL the black areas using the magic wand. Use SelectGrow (choose 1 pixel), then SelectFeather (choose two pixels), then hit delete. Once all black areas are removed in this manner, merge the two layers and apply FiltersEnhanceUnsharp Mask (make amount .1 or so, this is to sharpen the logo a bit). Save as a gif... When I do the above sequence, I get a nice sharp logo with no visible white artifacts. Good luck. Ben W. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Remove white patches at corner
On Friday 23 February 2007 21:40, Ben Walker wrote: .png images would look smooth on round edges but are not widely supported by all but the newest Internet Explorer version; hence roughly 70% (an estimate) of all browsers/versions will not show it correctly. However there is a PNG hack for IE 5.5 through IE 6 which works fine. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/pngtest.htm Paul ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP won't support installed printer?
I'll have to try again. Since then I've changed from SuSE to Centos for other reasons. Jim. On 2/23/07, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, it would help a lot of you would tell us what Print plug-in you are using. If things don't work, the reason might be that you are using the old gimp-print plug-in, while you should nowadays be using the GIMP plug-in that comes with gutenprint 5.0. If you have questions regarding the gutenprint plug-in, please ask them on the gutenprint mailing-list. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Remove white patches at corner
Gerry JJ wrote: On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:55:41 +0100, Sudheer Satyanarayana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody tell me how to remove those white patches and make the image neat? Sure. Do this (some names may differ, my gimp is norwegian so I have to translate some things): 1. Load the image into the gimp. Select the color picker tool, or pen/pencil with ctrl held, and use this to catch the purplish color. 2. Convert the image from indexed to RGB format (Image - Mode - RGB). 3. Go to Colors - Levels, click the third color picker button from the right at the bottom (select black point), click the purplish color. The logo should now be black. Hit ok. 4. In the layers window, right-click the layer and add a layer mask. Select grey scale copy of layer in the dialog and make sure invert mask is checked. Click add. 5. Click the leftmost of the two images of the layer in the layer window to select the image (the other is the mask). Also check the little checkbox above the layers view, to lock transparency. 6. Switch to the bucket fill tool. In the tool options, select fill entire selection. Click the image to fill it with purplish. White patches are now gone! (But we're not quite finished yet..) 7. Right-click the layer again and select apply layer mask. You now have an image with alpha transparency. To use the alpha transparency as is on the web, you'll have to save the image in the png format, but note that (older?) IE browsers doesn't support alpha transparency properly. Gif only supports on/off transparency. To get nice anti-aliasing with that, you'll have to add a background to your logo (add a new layer filled with your new background color, put it below the logo, and flatten the image). Good luck! ~ Gerry This method looked very interesting to me (as a useful method for some of my own projects), but I couldn't get it to work... I tried many times... I am using a dev. version of GIMP (2.3.12) in case that makes a difference Ben ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Pan Tool keyboard shortcut
Joao, Alexander, Thank you for the advice that the next version of GIMP will allow me to pan around the image with the space bar. However, I'm unclear as to why the pan tool exists now by clicking the middle mouse button, but I can't map it in any way to a keyboard shortcut. I thought it was possible to map any existing tool to the keyboard. Is this not the case? -- Dave M G Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft Kernel 2.6.17.7 Pentium D Dual Core Processor PHP 5, MySQL 5, Apache 2 ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP won't support installed printer?
Sven, Thanks for responding. it would help a lot of you would tell us what Print plug-in you are using. It says I'm using Gimp-Print version 4.2. However, when I check Gimp-Print with apt-get/Synaptic, it says I have version 5.0.0-2ubuntu2. In the description of the package, it says This is Gutenprint version 5.0.0, a stable release in the 5.0 series. I'm using Gimp 2.2.13, which should be recent and stable, and using Gutenprint. I checked a little on the web, and the Gutenprint web site itself says You may install both Gimp-Print 4.2.7 and Gutenprint 5.0 concurrently and choose which to use. Okay... but I can't find how to do that. I don't think I even want Gimp-Print version 4.2 on my system, but in any case, how and where do I get Gimp to use the Gutenprint 5.0 drivers which seem to be installed, and not the Gimp Print 4.2 drivers? (On a side note, when I scan my installed packages, I don't even see Gimp-Print 4.2. It seems like I *only* have Gutenprint 5.0 installed. So why is GIMP saying, in the About button in the print interface) that I'm using 4.2? -- Dave M G Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft Kernel 2.6.17.7 Pentium D Dual Core Processor PHP 5, MySQL 5, Apache 2 ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP won't support installed printer?
Dave M G writes: (On a side note, when I scan my installed packages, I don't even see Gimp-Print 4.2. It seems like I *only* have Gutenprint 5.0 installed. So why is GIMP saying, in the About button in the print interface) that I'm using 4.2? It might be that your GIMP is including an old gimp-print plug-in from 4.2, but the larger package which includes all the printer drivers is Gutenprint. A little checking with dpkg -S, dpkg -L and aptitude search might solve that mystery if you're on Ubuntu as your signature suggests. (I'd check here for you, but I have gutenprint built from source and have probably overwritten some of the original files.) I think they're compatible (must be, if the distro installs them that way) but the experts who would know for sure aren't here; they're on the gimp-print/gutenprint devel list. https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gimp-print-devel They'd also be the ones who would know whether or not a particular printer model is supported. Glance at the archives first (at that same url) to see if anyone has talked about your printer model recently. -- ...Akkana Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional: http://gimpbook.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP won't support installed printer?
Akkana, Thanks for responding. ut the experts who would know for sure aren't here; they're on the gimp-print/gutenprint devel list. No one on the GIMP mailing list knows how to make GIMP connect to the right printer driver? Just to be clear here, my printer is working (with CUPS, anyway), and according to my repositories, I have Gutenprint 5.0 installed. But GIMP is calling on Gimp-Print 4.2, and not showing any options to switch to Gutenprint 5.0. Is it not therefore a GIMP issue? -- Dave M G Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft Kernel 2.6.17.7 Pentium D Dual Core Processor PHP 5, MySQL 5, Apache 2 ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
