Re: Running two versions of Gimp
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 02:12:53PM -0700, "Jonathan E. Paton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the gimp executable is installed at '/usr/bin', and you compile the developer sources then the newer version should appear by default at '/usr/local/bin'. This can be changed with the '--prefix=' ./configure option when compiling from sources. To run the old excutable just type '/usr/bin/gimp'. While this *might* work it is somewhat fragile. It's best to use completely different prefixes for the two versions of the gimp (e.g. /opt/gimp-1.0 and /opt/gimp-1.1), especially when you are also upgrading gtk+ or other libraries. Having said that, it's usually quite safe, but... -- -==- | ==-- _ | ---==---(_)__ __ __ Marc Lehmann +-- --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] |e| -=/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE --+ The choice of a GNU generation | |
sharpen gif ??
i scaned a coulor picture with gimp and saved it in a gif-format. after that i load it in xfig to add some arrows and such stuff and write it as an eps-file. now i see that the edges of the picture are not so sharp as i expect. if i save the same one as postscript and after work with xfig as eps i get more sharp edges but a huge file. is there a way to improve the quality of gif with gimp or is it more a problem of the gif-format itself ???
Re: sharpen gif ??
most probably a problem of both gif and the tools you used. Yes, I agree the tools were a poor choice. Since this doesn't solve your problem, just points out a new one, I'll try and be helpfull by suggesting a new set of tools. If all you want to do is add arrows, you can do that from the gimp just fine. If you are saving as a black and white picture (somehow I imagine you are), gif is fine. This probably will not give you strait edges without some tweaking, so it may be easier to create the scanned in image with xfig instead of switching between analog and digital. If there is good reason to make your arrows with xfig, you can import those arrows into gimp. If there is some reason that you want to go from gimp to xfig, so can save from the gimp in postscript, or perhaps even try to convert between bitmap and vector with autotrace: http://homepages.go.com/~martweb/AutoTrace.htm Hope that helped. -James Smaby
Configuring Wacom Tablet (XInput)
Hi, I have some problems with my Wacom Graphire tablet under Linux (XFree 3.3.6, Gimp 1.1.25) For example Gimp starts only to draw a line if I issue a relative high pressure, much higher than for example the pressure I have to issue in Painter under Windows. Is there a way I can configure the pressure sensity? A similar problem, but the other way around, is the Graphire Mouse, it does even move the cursor if it is lifted up ~1cm above the table, which makes the mouse nearly unusable, under Windows it stopps moveing the cursor as soon as the mouse is lifed a milimeter. I also found no way to configure the mouse speed. The only thing I found out is that I can configure the mouse acceleration with "xinput set-ptr-feedback", but I haven't found any documentation about the parameter range, so I ended up in more or less unsuccess full tryerror. BTW. What is the "set-integer-feedback" option for? I couldn't find out how to use it or what it is supposed to do (the manpage is rather minimal). Any help is appreciated. Ingo -- ICQ: 59461927 http://www.pingus.cx | Ingo Ruhnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/ | '
How do I resize a selection?
Sorry if this is explained in the manual somewhere, but I couldn't find it. How do I resize a rectangular selection? Every other graphics app I know lets me resize a selection simply by my moving the mouse over a corner or edge, holding down the mouse button, and moving that corner or edge. But not GIMP. It insists on moving the selection. Can someone help me out? -- Timur Tabi - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Interactive Silicon - http://www.interactivesi.com
Re: How do I resize a selection?
On 29 August 2000 at 17:44, Timur Tabi wrote: Sorry if this is explained in the manual somewhere, but I couldn't find it. How do I resize a rectangular selection? Every other graphics app I know lets me resize a selection simply by my moving the mouse over a corner or edge, holding down the mouse button, and moving that corner or edge. But not GIMP. It insists on moving the selection. Can someone help me out? At least you can save the selection to a channel and play with it there, just like manipulating a normal image layer. Standard transformation tool in the toolbox may do the job (scaling down or rotation, etc. will produce some "white" are around the layer, may couse difficulty when getting rid of, if your selection is very complicated). Or, you can create a 100% filled temporary layer, and transform it then delete it. I believe there are many ways, probably better, but i use these methods. I hope this will help. -- dirt All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Re: How do I resize a selection?
Well. If you are wanting to resize the selection (the border thing) and not the contents inside, you can use image/Select/Shrink... and Grow... but that only makes a selection bigger or smaller, from all sides. AFAIK, there's not a way to simply "drag and resize" your selection, like you can with other progs. Please correct me if I'm wrong! - Aaron - Original Message - From: "Timur Tabi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 3:44 PM Subject: How do I resize a selection? | Sorry if this is explained in the manual somewhere, but I couldn't find | it. | | How do I resize a rectangular selection? Every other graphics app I | know lets me resize a selection simply by my moving the mouse over a | corner or edge, holding down the mouse button, and moving that corner or | edge. But not GIMP. It insists on moving the selection. Can someone | help me out? | | -- | Timur Tabi - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Interactive Silicon - http://www.interactivesi.com |
