Re: [Gimp-user] Publishing Gimp book
Sorry for asking a probably stupid question, but what means self- publishing? Writing and contributing to/with a license that allowes everybody to download a book and to sell the printed version parallel? Self-publishing simply means that the author is the publisher. This can be for any kind of book. I personally self-publish a GFDL book, and can provide guidance for anyone wanting to do something similar. Open licenses means that micro-publishers (which include self-publishers) can publish books that they have not paid to write. Technically, anyone could download my book and publish it on their own. In fact, I believe that is actually happening for translations. Most people do not because it would be a waste of time to simply re-publish under another title what someone else is already the de facto seller of. If anyone is interested in my book, see: http://www.cafeshops.com/bartlettpublish.8640017 If anyone would like assistance self-publishing, you can email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jon ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp Vs Mathematica handling EPS files
I'm quite surprised with some results. I had some mathematica plots which I just exported into EPS and inserted into a LaTeX document. They are excellent. One of them I had to edit so I used Gimp and when I saved in EPS, the result was terrible. Alot of alias. I do imagine its about resolution but I'm not sure. Has anyone had a similar issue? Can someone help me out edit a EPS image in Gimp with at least comparable results of Mathematica? I think the issue is vector versus raster. GIMP is a raster program. Since Mathematica is dealing with the curves directly, it probably simply translates the equations into a vector, which can then be handled by Postscript native elements, and likewise, TeX. You can definitely make this better by increasing the resolution. I would suggest 300DPI as a starting point. Jon ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Scheme question
I have been trying to write some scripts to automate tasks but find that I have some trouble using scheme. Although I am experienced in other languages I find scheme quite difficult to master as I can't seem to find any language references. There are lots of tutorials and samples showing how to create scripts but nothing that I could find that actually describes the language, functions available, etc. The big problem w/ Gimp's scheme is that they use a version that is not really respected by anyone and that's horribly out-of-date. I think they did that in the spirit of keeping things simple, but it's horribly backfired. Scheme is one of the most ingenious languages around. I'll be describing some of its more interesting features this coming year in several IBM DeveloperWorks articles. Unfortunately, many of these features aren't available on GIMP's scheme. For learning scheme as a language, some good books are: Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days (available on the web somewhere) How to Design Programs Simply Scheme a more advanced introduction, which every serious programmer should read sometime in their life, is Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs In addition, the scheme standard is only 50 pages, and is a pretty easy read. You can get it online at schemers.org or a hardcopy from my website at http://www.cafepress.com/bartlettpublish.9174125 Jon Learn to program using Linux assembly language http://www.cafeshops.com/bartlettpublish.8640017 ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] transparent backgrounds and windows explorer
If you're using PNG it's because Internet Explorer SUCKS at rendering PNGs. IE can only do binary transparency, it cannot do a full alpha channel. Jon ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Noise reduction
Are there any built-in functions or scripts for the GIMP that can be used to remove or reduce noise in digital photographs? Does anyone have a set of steps to follow to remove noise? There are several stand-alone programs available for Windows that do this but I haven't found any for Linux yet. Anyone know of any? Try blurring the R, G, and B channels separately. Go into layers-channels, de-select all but one channel, and then run your blur. Do that on each channel. Jon ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] scripts newby
Second and last, I have tried to save a picture as jpg with gimp_file_save non interractively. The image was saved with 0 quality, is there a way to set the jpg settings without using file_jpeg_save and without interractivity? Why do you need to do this? What's wrong with file_jpeg_save? Jon thx ___ 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] Net-Fu
Does net-fu still exist? All links to any pages about it seem to be dead. I was interested in using it, but just didn't know how to get started. Secondly, is there any way to force a script to run as the first scheme script? I wanted to define functions used in multiple scripts, and I needed to get them loaded first (Basically, in case I can't get net-fu to work, I want to be able to replace it, but I would need to replace script-fu-register first). Jon ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GLIB not found in RH9 - Advice please?
Did you install the -devel packages? Jon On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Nick Wilson wrote: Hi all, I tried compiling 1.3.9 on my RedHat9 system and it couldn't find GLIB 2.0 or higher. I do appear to have GLIB in /usr/lib/glib and I'm fairly sure it's the latest version. Could someone please point me in the right direction? Many thanks... -- Nick W ___ 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] Plugin examples - link broken on Gimp web site.
Also, I want to use Gimp to render GIF Graphics on the fly. Gimp would run on the server, and data stored on the server would hopefully be used to render histograms, pie charts, etc and dished out to people visiting the site. Gimp _can_ be used for this purpose, but probably a different solution (such as the GD library and it's associated graphing library) would be best. I use GIMP a lot from the command-line, but the problem with how I do it is that I run a new GIMP process for every graphic, which takes several seconds to load, thus would really load down your server if you were doing it in real time. The way you would need to do it is to run the script-fu-server, although I'm not sure this can be done without GUI mode, although it might. I have not played with the script-fu-server myself. Anyway, the way my command-line works is this: 1) I have a script-fu script in scheme 2) I create the following shell script: #!/bin/sh gimp -i -d -s -b (nmm-create-and-save-blue-button \$1\ \$2\) (gimp-quit 0) 2/dev/null nmm-create-and-save-blue-button is my script-fu script, which takes two parameters - the text for the button and the filename. The GIMP flags may need to be modified for your purpose. The one thing is that your scripts CANNOT mess with displays. For example, if you try to do gimp-display-new, you'll get an error, since you don't have a GUI. Now, if you decide that not having a GUI is too much of a pain, you can always run Xvfb, which is an X server that runs in memory only (i.e. - it doesn't display on a screen - it's a virtual frame buffer). Anyway, I hope that helps. My guess is, although I haven't tried it, si that you would want to run GIMP with gimp -i -c -s -b '(1 10008 /var/log/gimp.log)' And then connect to port 10008 and give it your commands (although I think they have to be in scheme, but if you're using the procedural database, the functions you access can be in any language). Let me know if you have questions. Jon John ___ 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
