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
