Re: [Gimp-user] Install on Solaris 8

2002-01-24 Thread Marco Wessel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You need to recompile The GIMP with the libpng before it can open pngs. Marco On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Jim Clark wrote: Downloaded successfully, compiled successfully, and working fine. Except cannot open a png. Search, found the pnglib for

Re: [Gimp-user] [Q] Resizing a PNG makes it BIGGER!

2003-06-05 Thread Marco Wessel
My guess is that this is because of the interpolation when resampling. Makes it less easily compressable. (Notice the 'anti-aliased' edges in the resized picture?) Marco Wessel On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Daniel Carrera wrote: Hi, This is really weird. I have a PNG image. I tried to make

[Gimp-user] Re: [Gimp-developer] makes it sense to add native CMYK support toGIMP?

2003-06-08 Thread Marco Wessel
). Helvetix I disagree. I hate it when software shields away the more advanced features. It is adjusting to the user, while the user should be adjusting to software instead. More than that, it's not adjusting to the correct user. Marco Wessel ___ Gimp

Re: [Gimp-user] What happened to transparency after flatten?

2003-10-13 Thread Marco Wessel
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 11:06:09AM -0500, Kevin Myers wrote: Hi Marco - I've been working with some facets of digital images for a long time, but I still don't completely understand everything about transparency. In particular, you mention one of the things here that I am confused about.

Re: [Gimp-user] Where's Wilber gone ?

2003-11-18 Thread Marco Wessel
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:38:36PM +0100, Jina wrote: The small icon shown near the URL in my browser when visiting www.gimp.org is no more showing the smily face of Wilber, but a sort of... something ! what's that ? RELEASE WILBER !!! It's still wilber here... Maybe you have a caching

Re: [Gimp-user] png

2003-12-08 Thread Marco Wessel
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:43:43PM -0500, Bob Lockie wrote: KSnapshot: 34 108 bytes, 585x385, 24bbp, RGB, deflate. Gimp: 78 896 bytes, 400x263, 24bbp, RGB, deflate, compression 9. There are no options in KSnapshot so I don't know what the compression level is (can it be higher than the

Re: [Gimp-user] png

2003-12-08 Thread Marco Wessel
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 06:13:47PM -0500, Bob Lockie wrote: The pics are on the web at: http://www.lockie.ca/test/ksnapshot.png http://www.lockie.ca/test/gimp.png Ugh, KDE is ugly.. *ducks* Anyway, this is exactly what I said. When you rescaled the image you made it harder to compress

Re: [Gimp-user] targa image

2003-12-19 Thread Marco Wessel
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 08:31:51AM -0200, Josenildo Marques wrote: Hi. I have created some trees with Arbaro Povray, but I cannot open them in The Gimp. It says the files are corrupted. Here is one example: $ file arbaro/pov/ca_black_oak.png arbaro/pov/ca_black_oak.png: Targa image data -

Re: [Gimp-user] printing

2003-12-21 Thread Marco Wessel
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 04:47:35PM -0200, Josenildo Marques wrote: When I try to print with The Gimp I have to choose my printer as the output. If I leave the output as PostScript Level 2, all it prints is unreadable gibberish on many sheets of paper. How can I solve this ? Your printer can't

Re: [Gimp-user] printing

2003-12-21 Thread Marco Wessel
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 08:16:47PM -0200, Josenildo Marques wrote: Thanks, again, Marco. It's an Epson Styllus Colour 580. I am wondering if there is a way to save this setting so that I won't need to do that every time I want to print something. I'm fairly sure it can. I can't tell you

Re: [Gimp-user] Making an image with a white background transparent?

2004-05-09 Thread Marco Wessel
On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 12:57:59PM -0700, dreadnought wrote: The tutorial mentions painting underneath the image to replace the white that should be part of the graphic, but doesn't go into how to do this? You can either select the region you don't want included, invert it, and then apply

Re: [Gimp-user] make white the transparent color

2004-04-30 Thread Marco Wessel
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 03:51:26PM +0200, Joachim Schiele wrote: is there a posibility to change the wite color tone, or any other specified by me to the alpha-color? i got a picture with a white background, now change the white to transparent. thanks in advice ;-) joachim Yes, the

Re: [Gimp-user] Virus alert

2004-04-30 Thread Marco Wessel
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 01:26:59PM -0600, Norma Carlson wrote: I just received a virus infected email from the Gimp-user list. My ISP mail protection program caught it and quarantined it so no damage was done. Just wanted to give all a heads up. No, this was a virus that set the gimp list

Re: [Gimp-user] renaming the gimp

2004-11-07 Thread Marco Wessel
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 09:39:32AM +1100, Owen Cook wrote: On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Gezim Hoxha wrote: P.S: I know GIMP is an acronym, but [almost] no one calls it GNU Image Manipulation Program either. Corrupt the acronym ..the Great Image Manipulation Program and if you didn't do

Re: [Gimp-user] transparity

2004-11-21 Thread Marco Wessel
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 03:51:49AM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: hi i want to make the background transparent, when i add the alpha thingie and save the picture as png IE show some kind of blue stuff as background ? Internet Explorer doesn't support PNG Alpha channels by itself. There are hacks

Re: [Gimp-user] How to draw a line? :(

2006-05-12 Thread Marco Wessel
Did you read the actual straight line tutorial? It's here: http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Straight_Line/ It details exactly what to do, step-by-step. Marco On May 12, 2006, at 9:02 PM, Simon Roberts wrote: I'm feeling particularly useless today, I'm pretty much a total beginner with GIMP,

Re: [Gimp-user] Is this compatible?

2006-10-07 Thread Marco Wessel
On Oct 7, 2006, at 7:25 PM, Chris Mohler wrote: Apologies - forgot to reply-all My advice would be to save your files in TIFF format. If you enable LZW compression, the file size will be significantly reduced without losing quality (unlike JPEG, and to some degree PNG). PNG is just as

Re: [Gimp-user] Is this compatible?

2006-10-08 Thread Marco Wessel
On Oct 8, 2006, at 5:21 PM, Jozef Legeny wrote: PNG supports indexed and grayscale color modes which aren't lossless, however by default the PNG is entirely lossless That is a bit of a weird definition of lossless. If you save an RGB32 image as an indexed or grayscale PNG then yes, you've

Re: [Gimp-user] miror image

2006-12-17 Thread Marco Wessel
On Dec 17, 2006, at 8:12 PM, Alexis Everson wrote: Can anyone tell me please if there is an opton to mirror an image rather than just flipping it. I want to put a graphic on the other side of a banner and flipping it makes the letters backwards. A mirror image would make them the right way

Re: [Gimp-user] miror image

2006-12-17 Thread Marco Wessel
On Dec 17, 2006, at 8:36 PM, norman wrote: Sorry, but I must disagree. If I look into a mirror my right side is still on the right. If I could flip, then my right side would be on the left. Uh, no. Think of that person in the mirror as someone else for a bit and forget the mirror is