Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-03-02 Thread Bob Long
zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: Nope. I also have a second computer runs Ubuntu 8.04 (I didn't upgrade to 8.10 yet), that every time the system tell me to upgrade I would do it (last time was in last week). But it still uses Gimp 2.5.4 (sh?? an unstable version?). My standard Ubuntu 8.10

Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-03-02 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Bob Long b...@oblong.com.au wrote: zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: Nope. I also have a second computer runs Ubuntu 8.04 (I didn't upgrade to 8.10 yet), that every time the system tell me to upgrade I would do it (last time was in last week). But it still uses Gimp

Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-03-02 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:37 AM, zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: Sven Neumann schrieb: Hi, On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 13:10 +, Chris Mohler wrote: GIMP 2.6 is out for five months already. There is really no good reason why your distribution does not offer it yet. Perhaps time to switch to a

Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-03-02 Thread Bob Long
Chris Mohler wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Bob Long b...@oblong.com.au wrote: [..] My standard Ubuntu 8.10 with all updates is running GIMP 2.4.5 (repeat: 2.4.5, not 2.5.4). Well, we're getting pretty off-topic here, but maybe you meant 8.04? $ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 8.10 $

Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-03-01 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 10:55 +0800, zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: It will take months until gimp reaches 2.6 on Gentoo stable. GIMP 2.6 is out for five months already. There is really no good reason why your distribution does not offer it yet. Perhaps time to switch to a more reasonable

Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-03-01 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Sunday 01 March 2009, zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: saulgo...@flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com schrieb: Hi. Thanks a lot. I'll re-try both plugins you recommended after once day my operating system (gentoo) bring me to 2.6.x. I can manually make an upgrade to 2.6.x by changing some

Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-03-01 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Sven Neumann s...@gimp.org wrote: Hi, On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 10:55 +0800, zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: It will take months until gimp reaches 2.6 on Gentoo stable. GIMP 2.6 is out for five months already. There is really no good reason why your distribution

Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-03-01 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 13:10 +, Chris Mohler wrote: GIMP 2.6 is out for five months already. There is really no good reason why your distribution does not offer it yet. Perhaps time to switch to a more reasonable Linux distribution? Yes, but even Ubuntu is still shipping 2.6.1

Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-03-01 Thread zhangweiwu
Sven Neumann schrieb: Hi, On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 13:10 +, Chris Mohler wrote: GIMP 2.6 is out for five months already. There is really no good reason why your distribution does not offer it yet. Perhaps time to switch to a more reasonable Linux distribution? Yes, but even

Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-02-28 Thread zhangweiwu
saulgo...@flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com schrieb: Quoting zhangwe...@realss.com: Hi. Thanks! I put the .scm file in /usr/share/gimp/2.0/scripts and try it. When I click OK in clone text properties dialog I was told the following: Error while executing (sg-clone-text-attributes 1 3 0

Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-02-27 Thread zhangweiwu
Chris Mohler schrieb: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:34 AM, saulgo...@flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com wrote: Quoting Daniel Hornung daniel.horn...@gmx.de: Or you could try and write a script that changes the text of all text layers in the same way, I think that should be possible at

Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-02-27 Thread saulgoode
Quoting zhangwe...@realss.com: Hi. Thanks! I put the .scm file in /usr/share/gimp/2.0/scripts and try it. When I click OK in clone text properties dialog I was told the following: Error while executing (sg-clone-text-attributes 1 3 0 TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE

Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-02-27 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 3:04 AM, zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: Chris Mohler schrieb: I wrote a trivial text 'find and replace' script for GIMP 2.6: http://registry.gimp.org/node/12212 Currently it operates in all layers - I'd love to get some feedback on how it works in real-world cases...

Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-02-27 Thread David Gowers
Hi Zhang and Chris! On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 3:53 AM, Chris Mohler cr33...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 3:04 AM,  zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: Chris Mohler schrieb: I wrote a trivial text 'find and replace' script for GIMP 2.6: http://registry.gimp.org/node/12212 Currently it

Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-02-26 Thread zhangweiwu
saulgo...@flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com schrieb: Quoting Daniel Hornung daniel.horn...@gmx.de: Or you could try and write a script that changes the text of all text layers in the same way, I think that should be possible at least in theory. Yes, such is possible (and owing to

Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-02-25 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Wednesday 25 February 2009, zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: Hello. Is there a feature in gimp that behave like inkscape, where a text layer (in Inkscape an object or a group of object) can have some clone text layers. No, (linked) clones are not available in GIMP (yet?), maybe in one or two

Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-02-25 Thread saulgoode
Quoting Daniel Hornung daniel.horn...@gmx.de: Or you could try and write a script that changes the text of all text layers in the same way, I think that should be possible at least in theory. Yes, such is possible (and owing to recent additions to the Procedural DataBase, not just in

Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-02-25 Thread Chris Mohler
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:34 AM, saulgo...@flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com wrote: Quoting Daniel Hornung daniel.horn...@gmx.de: Or you could try and write a script that changes the text of all text layers in the same way, I think that should be possible at least in theory. Yes, such is

[Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-02-24 Thread zhangweiwu
Hello. Is there a feature in gimp that behave like inkscape, where a text layer (in Inkscape an object or a group of object) can have some clone text layers. If the source text layer changes its color, size, text etc, the cloned layer automatically change accordingly. In fact, I am more happy if