[Gimp-user] Release timeline
Does anyone know if there's any kind of release timeline for Gimp.. like when 2.8 will come out or if 2.7 even will? ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Multi page PDF's
I'm trying to import a multiple page PDF and do some editing. I'm able to import a single page, add layers, edit, etc - but having a problem with multipage PDF's. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks, Matt Burkhardt, MSTM President Impari Systems, Inc. 401 Rosemont Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.imparisystems.com (301) 644-3911 ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Help with fonts
Katie wrote: I have a font called evanescent (it is a true type font and it is text) that won't work in GIMP. At first I thought in was the font but the font works in other programs. Does anyone know of a way to get it to work? I may or may not be able to help, but for starters we need a little more information to be able to diagnose the problem. First of all, what operating system are you using? Second, how do you define not working? Do you mean the font is not available (doesn't appear in the menu), or do you get poor results when you use it? And if it's the latter, please describe the results you get. Also, you said there are some other fonts that aren't working. Even if you never use them, it might be helpful to ask what distinguishes all the fonts that don't work from those that do. E.g., do they all come from the same foundry? Are they all in the same directory? And so on .. -- Matt Gushee ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Font size
Paul Bloch wrote: So I've noticed that although there are different palettes for when you're placing text (text field, font selector) I can't find anyway to edit the size of the text! That's strange. Normally you can just select existing text with the text tool, which allows you to change the size. That's assuming that the text is still in its original state--a separate text layer. If you have merged it into another layer or applied transformations to it (e.g. scaling, rotation, etc.) then it has been converted to a graphical object, and you can no longer perform text operations on it. Does that help at all? -- Matt Gushee The Reluctant Geek: http://matt.gushee.net/rg/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Removing unwanted objects in photos
Dan Giel wrote: I am new to gimp and am having trouble removing unwanted objects from digital photos. I have tried CLONE, Erasure etc, but to no avail. Where can I go to find information to remove unwanted objects from pictures. Hope someone can help. Well, the first thing to consider is that, since your graphics are digital photos they don't contain any objects. They consist entirely of pixels in various colors. That may be stating the obvious, but the point is that since the picture is nothing but patches of color, any (semi-)automatic retouching tool is going to define objects according to its own rules, and how well that works will depend greatly on the kind of image you have and what kind of artifacts you're trying to remove. So it would be helpful if you'd explain more specifically what you are trying to do. But regarding the clone tool, I've always found it tremendously useful for photo retouching. What exactly happened (or failed to happen) when you tried it? -- Matt Gushee The Reluctant Geek: http://matt.gushee.net/rg/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Just Plain ole text
Scott Bicknell wrote: JIM NEELY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: text in my image is ugly... what can i do to make a plain ole text image and have it look as good on my web site as it does in GIMP. Try using gif instead of jpeg. Or PNG, provided you don't need a transparent background (hard to believe Internet Explorer *still* hasn't got that right, but there it is). Another possibility, if the text-images are standalone (i.e. *just* text, not graphics+text) is to use sIFR. But that's off-topic since it doesn't involve the GIMP, so I'll just give you a URL: http://wiki.novemberborn.net/sifr/ and leave it at that. -- Matt Gushee The Reluctant Geek: http://matt.gushee.net/rg/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Gimp-user Digest - Open Save dialog
George Farris wrote: Indeed. You are right. This is recent, isn't it ? What is the use of CTRL-L now ? However, there is no visual hint that typing the filename will do something. Having the text entry field would make it clear. Not to put to fine a point on it but almost very application out there including GIMP has key combos that are not visible. Of course they do, and I don't think anyone objects to having them. The problem is that you need to use an undocumented and very non-obvious procedure to accomplish something that was easy and obvious before. The GTK team deserves credit for taking up the considerable challenge of making a more usable desktop. But in this case they've blown it: they fixed something that IMHO was not broken, for the sake of the non-technical users they hope to attract to the GNOME platform, and at the expense of *actual* users who, for the most part, have no trouble typing /path/to/whatever and would like to be able to do so with a minimum of fuss. -- Matt Gushee The Reluctant Geek: http://matt.gushee.net/rg/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Gimp-user Digest - Open Save dialog
Sven Neumann wrote: they fixed something that IMHO was not broken, for the sake of the non-technical users they hope to attract to the GNOME platform, and at the expense of *actual* users who, for the most part, have no trouble typing /path/to/whatever and would like to be able to do so with a minimum of fuss. Have you ever tried to type /path/to/whatever into a GTK+ file-chooser dialog? Can there be any less fuss? You mean GTK2? Okay, now I see that it works. But people like me who have been using GUIs since the mid-80s are accustomed to having a text entry widget to type into. When there is no such widget, people ... well, I don't know about 'people', but I tend to assume that text input is not allowed. So maybe the new dialog isn't so bad after all ... but how are users supposed to know they can type in a path? -- Matt Gushee The Reluctant Geek: http://matt.gushee.net/rg/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp development
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 06:11:59PM -0500, Paul Bloch wrote: I'm an occasional Gimp user and prefessional graphic designer. I was wondering where and how do I get involved with user-interface development. Have you seen the GIMP project on OpenUsability.org? That might be a good place to start. The URL is: http://openusability.org/projects/gimp -- Matt Gushee The Reluctant Geek: http://matt.gushee.net/rg/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Python and Windows XP
Colin Brace wrote: I too am wondering. At my first attempt to compile 2.3.7, make spat back that it couldn't find Python headers and the only way forward was to run it with --disable-python. I have gimp-python 2.2.8-2 installed. I thought maybe it needed a developer package, but aptitude search gimp | grep python | grep dev didn't turn up anything. Most likely the missing headers are those for Python itself. Did you look for python-devel? -- Matt Gushee The Reluctant Geek: http://matt.gushee.net/rg/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Printing success stories?
Tom Williams wrote: Matt Gushee wrote: Tom Williams wrote: See if it contains some driver info that might be of help to you. Maybe switching to a different driver might help with your printing problem. There is also a forum there for Epson printers that might be of help: If I read the original post correctly, the issue is not a printing problem, but a *color management* problem--i.e., can the GIMP produce good quality CMYK output? I've hesitated to jump in because I really don't have much expertise in this area. But I do know that for professional print work, it's not enough to have a good printer and a good printer driver, and to have them configured correctly. Your application also has to be able to adjust the colors for print, and I'm afraid GIMP 2.2 can't do that. GIMP 2.4 is supposed to have greatly improved color management, though. Depending on your timeline, you might try the latest 2.3 beta version, which is what will become 2.4. Yep, assuming the drivers he's using aren't interfering with the quality of the image output, you're absolutely correct in your assessment. Do you realize you *did not* copy the list in your response to me? I was going to copy the list with my response but I wasn't sure if you wanted your comments on the list or not. :) Oops. Yes, I meant to reply to the list. Most of the mailing lists I'm on have replies going to the list by default. I just forgot that this one doesn't. -- Matt Gushee The Reluctant Geek: http://matt.gushee.net/rg/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Library confusion
Bernd Eggink wrote: I compiled and installed the latest version of gtk, gimp etc., and nearly everything works fine. With one exception: The program 'ossxmix' complains about missing libraries libgtk-1.2 and libgdk-1.2. This is not really a GIMP-related issue, since the GTK libraries became separate from the GIMP a long time ago. Nonetheless, there happen to be people here who know something about this ;-) I'm confused. Are these parts of an ancient version of gtk (without +)? Well, it's pretty old. But AFAIK the lack of a + symbol doesn't mean anything. I believe the official name of the package as a whole is GTK+, though specific packagers (e.g. Linux distributions) sometimes omit the +, but in any case the actual shared libraries that get installed on your system don't have + in their names. At least they don't on my system, and I'm pretty sure it's not a meaningful distinction. And if so, where can I download the sources, as I would prefer to compile them myself? You should be able to find them via www.gtk.org. Just beware of replacing newer files with older ones. That *probably* won't happen, since you say you've got the latest GIMP etc. ... that implies you have GTK2 installed, so there shouldn't be any conflict. Still, I'd suggest doing a dry run in a fresh install directory, just to make sure you're not going to overwrite anything important. Best of luck. -- Matt Gushee The Reluctant Geek: http://matt.gushee.net/rg/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Layer from selection
Panos Laganakos wrote: Is there a script/action that allows to create a new from a portion of selected section? Right now, I duplicate a layer, select the area i want and crop it to my selection. Sure, it's very simple--though perhaps not obvious. 1. Copy the selection (keyboard: Ctrl + C / menu: Edit - Copy) 2. Paste (Ctrl + V / Edit - Paste) At this point, you would normally do Ctrl + H to anchor the layer (i.e. merge the pasted item into the destination layer, but instead do this: 3. Look at the Layers dialog. You should see an item in the list called something like Floating Selection (Pasted Layer). If you don't see that, maybe you didn't do the first two steps correctly. 4. Make the floating selection into a new layer. In recent versions of the GIMP, you should find a New Layer button (with an icon like a single sheet of paper) at the lower left corner of the Layers dialog. Or there's a New Layer command on the popup menu. In any case, just make sure the Floating Selection is selected in the list, and press that button or menu item. That's it. -- Matt Gushee The Reluctant Geek: http://matt.gushee.net/rg/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Transparent Logos...
michael chang wrote: On 11/8/05, Jeff Avveduti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make sure the texture layer is selected You probably understood this, but it's a potential point of confusion, so let's try to make it totally clear: selected here means to make sure, before opening the Bump Map dialog, that the texture is the active layer in the main window (selected in the layers dialog). Ok, I must be doing something wrong. I opened a picture, add text [Avveduti Photography], Filters - Map - Bump Map, no matter I change, the text does not change. I move the window around to show the different letters of the text but nothing. I slide everything to the far right... nothing. I hit ok and hide the layer... nothing. What am I doing wrong? Maybe what you're missing is that, in the Bump Map dialog, you have to select the text layer as the Bump Map ... that option is in the upper right corner (at least for me on Linux ... I don't imagine it varies by platform, but it's conceivable). I don't think the text is supposed to change, the background is. Then you should be able to hide the text somehow, Yes, for the final image ... though if you start with the text below the texture, it won't be visible anyway. the text layer in the layers box. Maybe you need to flatten it first? Can't imagine how that would make a difference at this stage. -- Matt Gushee Englewood, CO, USA ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Using FRAMES... How?
michael chang wrote: Macromedia Fireworks uses something called Vector based Graphics provided by Macromedia's proprietary Flash technology/file format, and GIMP uses Raster based graphics which are not so proprietary and come in various file formats. The two are different, yield different results, and work differently. Just for the record, there is absolutely nothing proprietary about vector graphics in general. It is true that there are relatively few open file formats for vector graphics, or open source programs to work with them, but they do exist: major file formats include EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics); vector drawing applications include Inkscape (rapidly becoming quite good), Sodipodi, and the venerable XFig. BTW, SVG offers many of the animation capabilities of Flash. It isn't supported in all browsers yet--nor, I think, completely supported in any browser, but it is on its way. Sorry to get off-topic. I'll let everyone get back to the GIMP now. -- Matt Gushee Englewood, CO, USA ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Font Problem,
Carol Spears wrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 01:07:11PM -0500, Michael Luich wrote: I have a user who keeps getting : font '-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal-*-*-540-72-72-P-*-ISO10646-1' not found. How exactly do they get this message? Does it appear in a GIMP error dialog? I can recreate it by trying to use the text tool to insert Helvetica bold. RHEL 3 Everyhting seems to be default. Oh, well Red Hat would never configure anything wrong, so it must be user error ;-) (Can you tell I'm a *former* Red Hat user?) I can't seem to figure where it's trying to get this font from. I can't find anything like ISO10646 fonts although I have ISO8859 fonts. Exactly. GIMP wants a Unicode font, but you don't have it. I suspect the GIMP is trying to select fonts based on your locale settings. I'm not up to date with this stuff, so I can't give you anything authoritative, but a good starting point in diagnosis might be to check your language settings. E.g. what does echo $LANG tell you? If it says, e.g., en_US.utf8 then that probably accounts for GIMP wanting an iso10646 font. If that is the case, then try running the GIMP from the command line with LANG=en_US gimp or perhaps LANG=en_US.iso8859-1 gimp [there are several ways to spell the encoding; you might have to play with it a bit] So, what if changing LANG does indeed solve the problem? There are several options: 1) Change the default LANG for your system ... this is the easiest solution, but could well cause problems with other applications. Best experiment thoroughly on yourself before inflicting this on anyone else. 2) Install/configure Unicode fonts as needed. 3) Create a wrapper script for the GIMP that does something like: export LANG=en_US exec /usr/bin/gimp And there are probably other solutions too ... I'm sure I'm missing something simple. which gimp are you using? and what does RHEL 3 mean? RHEL is Red Hat Enterprise Linux. gimp-2.whatever doesn't ask for fonts this way. There are several layers involved in font handling, so the error could be coming from a deeper level. However, I think you may be right anyway. The not-found font name is an XLFD (X Logical Font Descriptor); GIMP 2.x uses the newer Xft font mechanism. I don't think Xft uses XLFDs at all ... but then I really don't understand Xft, so I could easily be mistaken. -- Matt Gushee Englewood, CO, USA ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] rounded corners
I'm trying to make rounded corners using the tutorial below with Gaussian Blur IIR and Levels 119-1-135: http://gug.sunsite.dk/tutorials/rounded-corners/ It works when I put a black rectangle on a white background but not when I try to put a white rectangle on a dark tan (B9BA9E) background. It also doesn't seem to work when I try to apply that to a rectangle on a transparent layer. I'm trying to create a white box with two rounded corners and a shadow on all sides on a dark tan background. Is there something I am doing wrong or another way to achieve the same goal? Thanks, Matt ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Partially transparent layer
I have a layer that I want to make partially transparent by deleting out a checkerboard pattern in it. What would be the easiest way to do this? Thanks, Matt ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Selection Help Please
She was on the grass, many different shades... any idea of the best way to replace the pixels i accidently took off of her chin? Zoom in to highest magnification, use the clone tool to select shades from the nearby facial area and reconstruct it by hand. Might not be the best way but you can do a lot with that technique. Matt ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] gimp in one window
At 08:35 AM 9/19/04 -0700, you wrote: You might take a look at http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=3892 which is a plug-in called Windows Gimp Deweirdifyer. It is rather deprecated by the GIMP developers because of the obnoxious name ... How about calling it the Windows Gimp Unifier (if the Deweirdifyer name is offensive and hinders its success.) No offense :-) Matt ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] importing pictures
Change it from an indexed image to an RGB image. On the tool bar: Image Mode RGB You can also add an alpha channel. In the Layers dialogue, Right Click the layer and choose Add Alpha Channel. When you're finished you can flatten the image again and convert back to indexed. Matt At 09:58 PM 7/14/04 -0400, Kurt Yoder wrote: Hi list I just recently started using Gimp 2.0 on X11/Mac OS X. Now I've hit a snag; perhaps someone here can offer a pointer? I opened a gif in gimp and am trying to do gaussian blur on it. However, all my filters are greyed out. Am I missing something obvious? (Possibly coincidental: while looking into this problem and attempting to duplicate/move layers, I came upon a dialog saying the gif has no alpha channel) Thanks for any assistance... ___ 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] Help needed making a gradient in Gimp 2.0.1
At 08:07 PM 6/19/04 -0700, you wrote: Ok, I'm trying to make a gradient that looks exactly like this: http://www.bay-online-media.com/tom/graident.jpg FYI (spelling correction for the link) http://www.bay-online-media.com/tom/gradient.jpg ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Rounded Corner
I am trying to make a rounded corner for a 1-pixel-wide border that will be on a white background. I draw a circle and then stroke it with black. It comes out jaggedy and I think I need to apply anti-aliasing but haven't figured how yet. Could someone tell me how to do this or recommend a tutorial or suggest a better way? Thanks, Matt ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Rounded Corner
At 10:50 PM 3/21/04 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: Do you stroke with a paint-tool or do you use the new stroke functionality in gimp-2.0? The latter should give better results. I am using WinGimp 1.2 because I still have Win 98 and WinGimp 2 requires Windows 2000, according to the WinGimp website. Matt ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Rounded Corner
At 04:30 PM 3/21/04 -0500, Matt wrote: I am trying to make a rounded corner for a 1-pixel-wide border that will be on a white background. I draw a circle and then stroke it with black. It comes out jaggedy and I think I need to apply anti-aliasing but haven't figured how yet. I changed the radius to 15px instead of 10px and it looks a lot better. Is this as good as it gets? Matt ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] cutting down gif
I have a GIF that is 780 pixels wide and I would like to cut 30 pixels out of the middle to reduce it to 750 wide. What would be the best way to do that? I am using Gimp for Windows 1.2. on Win98. Thanks, Matt ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Help a novice...
At 09:33 AM 1/14/04 -0700, SCOTT ANDERSON wrote: I'm running Win 98, and have downloaded the 2.0 to my program files. I don't know what to do from here. What program do I open it with? How do I get it up and going? I want to run it side by side with the 1.2.x version I have. Please help. Obviously a newbie... You might find some help on the gimpwin-users list. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gimpwin-users/ I'll be watching for your post. The WinGIMP page has files and instructions for 1.2.4 but not for 2.0. I would like to know how to install 2.0 also. Matt
[Gimp-user] Fonts GIMP
I have spent hours upon hours trying to figure out how to install some new fonts for use with GIMP. Open Office Writer now recognizes them but not GIMP. I am running GIMP 1.2.3 under Red Hat Linux 8 and the Gnome desktop. The fonts are on a CD from the FontSite and are available as both Type 1 and True Type. The font CD was intended for Mac or Windows so there were no fonts.dir files with them. Since the Type 1 fonts were in 157 separate folders which I didn't want to add individually to the X Font Server path and create individual fonts.dir files for each one I instead created a folder in /usr/share/fonts for the True Type fonts which were all in one folder on the CD. After all the instructions didn't work I just tried something else and they do show up in Open Office Writer (on screen at least, I didn't think about trying to print anything). Does anyone have any ideas on getting GIMP to find them? Thanks, Matt ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Script-Fu - Batch Mode Problem
Quality is pretty subjective. After reading your messages, I resized some images with ImageMagick and the Gimp and I found an interesting thing: When I looked at the resized images without zooming, the ImageMagick-resized images looked sharper, clearer and showed finer detail than the Gimp-resized images, which looked softer and smoother (not really blurred, but definitely less detailed). Zoomed in, however, the Gimp images looked much better. It appears that the ImageMagick algorithm introduced a little pixelization that looks bad up close, but not only looks fine at 100%, but even produces some hints of lines that my eye interprets as fine details. The images I was playing with were of people, and the most obvious differences were visible in lines in hair, particularly bangs. Also, you may want to make sure that you were using the same quality settings for the JPEG encoding in your tests. Both Gimp and ImageMagick default to a quality setting of 75, I believe, but if you were saving your Gimp-resized images with a higher quality setting, that would create a false advantage. You can use -quality nn with ImageMagick, where nn is the quality setting you want to use. -- Shawn I definately agree that quality is subjective. I personally think that the images that I was producing with ImageMagick with good enough for the web. However, the client that i am doing all this fordoes not agree. The quality that they had been getting with another product was better than the ImageMagick Images but not as good as the Gimp images. However, it is a manually process that they want automated. I have tried using the --quality flag with the imagemagick implementation. However, It was still not up to the clients standards and the gimp image was still a cleaner image.Basically, Imagemagick is not an option for us. Getting this script working from the command line is our best solution at this time. Thanks for the information. --Matt ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Re: Script-Fu - Batch Mode Problem (ATTEMPT #2)
Doh! Please Ignore that last attachmentI added the wrong one. I was testing something else at that point. This one illustrates what I was trying to do. --Matt -- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 04:32:07 - (GMT), pcg( Marc)@goof(A.).(Lehmann )com wrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 07:35:36PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: image resizing from the command line. I know that many of you out there are going to point out that ImageMagick will do what I am looking for. I have already gone down that path and the image quality of the scaled images is not up Then you probably have done sth. wrong, as ImageMagick's algorithms are way superior (and way slower ;) to the mere cubic interpolation gimp uses. Are you sure you tried sth. like: convert sourcefile -filter mitchell -geometry newgeometry destfile ok, I tried thisand I got an image that was not up to par with what can be done with Adobe's Image ready doing a similiar process. However, with Gimp, I can produce an image that is better and smaller than what Image Ready and ImageMagick can do.The mitchell filter was better than the cubic filter by far...but they were still pixelated when you started to look at the images closely. I personally think the images are good enough for the webhowever, the client that I am working for is accustom to having an image of a very high quality. also, other filters than the mitchell filter (which is usually best) are also worth a try, cubic for example should rather closely match gimp's quality. Well, I am no scirpt-fu expert, but I get a lot of mail that tells me that scirpt-fu simply doesn't work noninteractively, or at leats not correctly, or returns too earfly etc.. etc.. Ok, if script-fu is not meant to be run from the command line without interactionthen why the batch mode option? from the gimp man pages -b, --batch commands Execute the set of commands non-interactively. The set of commands is typically in the form of a script that can be executed by one of the Gimp scripting extensions. Based on the documentation I have seen, I should be able to call a script-fu function and everything should work. That is not the case. Attached is a cut down version of the script that I am attempting to call. I am calling this script from the command line as follows.. gimp -b '(script-fu-test-script 1 200 200 /export/home/matt/toprocess/W-49M01_ven.jpg /export/home/matt/toprocess/W-49M01_ven_n.jpg)' When this is run...I get back batch command: executed successfully. However, there is no outputted image to be found. If I change the 1 to 0 to run interactivly, it pops up the prompt for me to enter in the values needed for the script and runs successfully. Is there any way of outputting what has been passed into a script? Thoughts? Comments? Matt Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] test-script.scm Description: Binary data ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Script-Fu - Batch Mode Problem
Hello, I am having an issue with a Script that I have written being called from the command line. Here is what I am trying to do. I have written a script using Scheme that runs great when I have Gimp loaded up (ie not from the command line). No problems, does everything that I want. The real point of the script is to automate some image resizing from the command line. I know that many of you out there are going to point out that ImageMagick will do what I am looking for. I have already gone down that path and the image quality of the scaled images is not up to the quality that client wants. However, I can make a better, smaller image using Gimpnow I just need to make it completely automated. here is the rub. I have the script streamlined down and everything is set to be non-interactive. So i should just be able to pass in the variables and away we go My thinking is obviously flawed here as it doesn't quite work. here is how I am calling the script: gimp -b '(script-fu-automated-resize 1 200 200 /export/home/matt/toprocess/Imagein.jpg /export/home/matt/toprocess/Imageout.jpg)' '(gimp-quit 0)' The script takes in a height, width, beginning image and output image. I pass it a 1 before all of that for non-interactive. The script is designed to open the beginning image, resize accordingly, and then save to the output image. I get the following response. batch command: executed successfully. One would think that I should be able to check my system and I should see the end imagenopenada...nothing. If I change the option of 1 to 0 to run in interactive mode...I get the prompt for the default values of the script. Height, Width, Image to processfinal image. If I enter those in, click the ok buttonit runs like a champ. What am I missing? I have the non-interactive bit set on the file open which I assume is what is causing this dialog to pop up. Any ideas? tips? Pointer? References? Anyone already have a thumbnail script that works in this way that can shed some light on the subject? Matt Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Script-Fu - Batch Mode Problem
Yeah...I have read that already and have gotten a ton of great tips on how to make things workbut I am still having the problem after all that is said and done. It appears that the script doesn't want to accept the parameters that I am passing in properly. This has been frustrating me for several days now so I am open to any suggestions. Matt Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:05:26 - (GMT), Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi lord knows, i don't know the answer to that directly, but it might be here: http://adrian.gimp.org/batch/batch.html carol On 2002-12-19 at 1935.36 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed this: Hello, I am having an issue with a Script that I have written being called from the command line. Here is what I am trying to do. I have written a script using Scheme that runs great when I have Gimp loaded up (ie not from the command line). No problems, does everything that I want. The real point of the script is to automate some image resizing from the command line. I know that many of you out there are going to point out that ImageMagick will do what I am looking for. I have already gone down that path and the image quality of the scaled images is not up to the quality that client wants. However, I can make a better, smaller image using Gimpnow I just need to make it completely automated. here is the rub. I have the script streamlined down and everything is set to be non-interactive. So i should just be able to pass in the variables and away we go My thinking is obviously flawed here as it doesn't quite work. here is how I am calling the script: gimp -b '(script-fu-automated-resize 1 200 200 /export/home/matt/toprocess/Imagein.jpg /export/home/matt/toprocess/Imageout.jpg)' '(gimp-quit 0)' The script takes in a height, width, beginning image and output image. I pass it a 1 before all of that for non-interactive. The script is designed to open the beginning image, resize accordingly, and then save to the output image. I get the following response. batch command: executed successfully. One would think that I should be able to check my system and I should see the end imagenopenada...nothing. If I change the option of 1 to 0 to run in interactive mode...I get the prompt for the default values of the script. Height, Width, Image to processfinal image. If I enter those in, click the ok buttonit runs like a champ. What am I missing? I have the non-interactive bit set on the file open which I assume is what is causing this dialog to pop up. Any ideas? tips? Pointer? References? Anyone already have a thumbnail script that works in this way that can shed some light on the subject? Matt Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
