Re: Here you have, ;o)

2001-02-14 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, if I get one more stupid Windoze PC 'Lookout!-express' user sending viruses my way I'm off this list :-( alan

Re: Wacom USB tablets

2000-11-10 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, I've got a Intellimouse Explorer and Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro, both are USB. I've got Kernel 2.2.17 (but this works with .15 and .16 ^ too, I've done it) with a 2.4 backport of USB support. Available @

Re: Low Quality Gifs

2000-10-06 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, As an example http://www.stutchbury.com/images/projects.gif versus a similar image in PNG format at http://www.stutchbury.com/images/projects_d.png . It is on the conversion to 'indexed' that the degradation occurs. Any ideas? sure that your PNG image is also being shrunk down to

RE: Low Quality Gifs

2000-10-06 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, I've a question too: ie4 seem not support png format. In fact, when i've clicked on you png link below, ie4 has asked to me if i want to "save or open the file", and hasn't displayed it. Why ? because, as you said, IE4 doesnt support PNG. there are updates around, but its better to move

Re: Magnify

2000-10-03 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, Remember the old days? Drawing your pixels with Deluxe Paint on the Amiga/Atari? Those programs had (at least the atariversion) a nice little feature, a realtime magnifier. the Amiga version had this too. The current. modern alternatives for the platform e.g. PPaint, Brilliance,

Re: Speaking about fonts

2000-10-02 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, They are not zip SFX, they are Win32 code. I had the bad habbot of using "file" command with everything. I recall using DOS pkunzip to unzip a sfx made with WinZIP (*cough*); if I ran the .exe it said, it was created with winzip and that I needed Windows. But good 'ol pkunzip did

Re: SPAM :-(

2000-09-28 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, I've got to say that annoying as spam is htting the delete button isn't that hard :) you obviously dont have to download around 500k of spam a day over a modem link ;-) at my work address, spam is just a 'd' key away. at home, my old and trusted account has been picked up by more

SPAM :-(

2000-09-27 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, sorry, but if I keep getting SPAM from this mailling list (the last supposedly coming from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" - it only takes 2 seconds to look at the headers and see scam.xcf.berkeley.edu) then I'll have to remove myself from this mailing list :-( alan

Re: SPAM :-(

2000-09-27 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, Yeah, me too. That's the second or third spam I've gotten now. Still, it's not the lists fault... other lists operate on a 'subscriber only' basis and check the from/to flags of posters. alan

Re: can gimp do this?

2000-09-11 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, REQUIREMENTS: 1) ability to generate .gif 2) image quality is very important 3) controllable image sizes 4) controllable font sizes 5) ability to generate black matte around text 6) Text alignment within image should be controlled 7) Helvetica Neue font must be supported 8)

Re: saving gifs

2000-09-11 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, I know I saw a thread on this earlier today but I seem to have deleted it... My intern has a helix-code load of gimp 1.1.24. He tries to save gifs and gets "unknown file type" errors. I'm not sure if he's missing a library or if gimp no longer supports gifs due to the Unysis patent

Re: Printer Woes and Gimp

2000-09-08 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, I am trying to use gimp (ver 1.0.4) ) Epson Color Stylus Driver 600 and a Epson Color 640 printer to print graphics to a 8.5x11 surface (paper, photo paper and transparancies so far). The command " /usr/bin/lpr -Plp -l" is used from within gimp's printer set up. Regardless of the

Re: 2 computers, 3 gimps, no hue-saturation

2000-09-07 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, STDERR on Virgil just showed me an eth0 problem. Links to the other files are: thanks for doing links rather than posting the stuff here :-) 1. dmesg.treva (3 KB) http://i6.yimg.com/6/e7afa96b/h/ad02f3a8/dmesg.treva looks pretty normal 2. stderr.treva (3 KB)

Re: Thanks

2000-09-05 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, ... to everyone about the plugin info. I am now a bit more enlightened! sorry, cant make it due to the PPARC summerschool computing requirements alan

Re: Thanks

2000-09-05 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, ... to everyone about the plugin info. I am now a bit more enlightened! ever replied to the wrong list? ;-) I just have! 8-) ob-back-onsubject: yes, you can get precompiled plugins, you either stick them in the GIMP plugin directory (if you have access to do so) or you stick 'em in

Re: FW: button-like effect

2000-08-23 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, And some of us check our email at the command line, and seeing all that garbled mime junk is rather annoying. If one gives a URL, I can paste it into netscape. A mime attachment needs to be saved, demimed, then viewed -- not something I bother doing unless it's important. Set up a

Re: being geekish on a a1200

2000-08-18 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, Offtopic: Are there any gfx programs left on the amiga which still being developed? yes, PG, IFX, AE and a few more. I hope Photogenics(http://www.paulnolan.com) will work well with linux. The It look like it will...whether it can compete with the free Gimp is another matter...it was

Re: Scanner suggestions

2000-08-16 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, Anyhow, any suggestions out there for a scanner? There are several listed in the book, but I thought I'd see what suggestions might come my way, as it's a bit outdated. I'd recommend a SCSI Hewlett-Packard. well supported under Linux alan

Re: The GIMP v1.1.24 Installation Saga Continues.....

2000-08-14 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, checking for gtk-config... /usr/bin/gtk-config checking for GTK - version = 1.2.8... *** An old version of GTK+ (1.2.6) was found. *** You need a version of GTK+ newer than 1.2.8. The latest version of *** GTK+ is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org. *** *** If you have already

Re: The GIMP v1.1.24 Installation Saga Continues.....

2000-08-14 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, Got any ideas about this ? perl is the reason why I am going through all of this heartache - so I can get to the perl plug-ins (esp. perlotine). my advice is to get the full Perl 5.6 tarball and install that. alan

Re: MyOwnBear Newsletter #18

2000-08-11 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, Is there a Bondage Bear? old news, already done ;-) http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/kcci1/bondidog.html alan

Re: The GIMP v1.1.24 Installation Saga Continues.....

2000-08-11 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, checking for working makeinfo... missing checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess host type; you must specify one I have make, automake and autoconf installed. As well as this, I have perl 5.005, gtk 1.2.8 and glib 1.2.8 installed (I did an rpm -Uvh --force to

Re: extension-perl-server (fwd)

2000-08-09 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, What's the relation between Gimp-1.2 moduleand perl-Gimp-1.082-2 rpm? Gimp is the program. to use the perl plugins, you have to use the latest Perl-Gimp My Perl is 5.6.0 and resides at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i686-linux my Gimp Perl is 1.2 alan

Re: GIMP v1.1.24 RPM Take 2

2000-08-07 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, "error: failed dependencies: perl = 5.005_03 is needed by gimp-1.1.24-2 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i686-pld-linux-thread is needed by gimp-1.1.24-2 gtk+ = 1.2.8 is needed by gimp-1.1.24-2 perl(Carp) is needed by gimp-1.1.24-2 perl(DynaLoader) is needed by gimp-1.1.24-2

Re: Antwort: Re: GIMP v1.1.24 RPM Take 2

2000-08-07 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, mdk rpms are specialized RPMs that conform to the Mandrake RPM conventions. 'specialised' and 'conventions' spell proprietary in my book. whats wrong with the 'open' RPM standard embraced by the tools already on most Linux, Solaris, Un8X systems? best avoid those 'special blands' and

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: GIMP v1.1.24 RPM Take 2

2000-08-07 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, No, that was not what I meant. Mandrake RPMs are about all compiled with the same settings, use a standard way to update menus for GNOME or KDE and store files like manpages in the same location (/usr/share/man/*). So, if you're using a Mandrake distribution, it is best to stay with

Re: GIMP v1.1.24 RPM Take 2

2000-08-07 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, Which additional pacckages do I need for the plugins to work? My perl plugins stopped working since version 1.1.19 of gimp. I compiled the source-distribution of perl-5.6.0 and installed - Parse-RecDescent-1.78 - PDL-2.005 - Gtk-Perl-0.6123 Both perl and gimp compiled without

Re: Bad rendering of PNG saved from GIMP

2000-08-01 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, 'cuse the ignorance, but is it possible to create a png image that provides 'gif type of transparency?' That is, something that will work with current browsers and stay away from the patented gif format? yes, of course you can have PNGs with transparency RedHat Linxu comes with a

Re: Bad rendering of PNG saved from GIMP

2000-08-01 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, ive read all the stuff on png support in web browsers. it sucks. every single browser out there has some kind of error. so basically, dont use pngs. ive read it and read it. ...and I supposed these people tested all the browsers out there, yes? I mean, after all, theres Netscape, IE,

Re: Bad rendering of PNG saved from GIMP

2000-08-01 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, Why would web brousers support png's if nobody is using them? Let's just start small by using the minimal features of png on our webpages, so that the web browsers will see that png is becoming popular and code in better support. my favourite browsers supported PNG since last year. as

Re: Bad rendering of PNG saved from GIMP

2000-08-01 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, James Smaby wrote: since I lost text-version ability Who says lynx doesn't support png's? Lynx actually does a much better rendering of png's than any `graphical' browser so far! Of course, it doesn't really do the rendering itself, but forks the displaying of it

Re: still can't print 1.1.24

2000-07-28 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, Well, I've not gotten any answers and folks are probably tired of the same question. How in the hell do I print from 1.1.24? The print window has two drop down boxes next to the printer selection. Once says file and there are no other options, so I can't change it. The other 'setup'

Re: Script-fu crashes

2000-07-20 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, clemensF wrote: Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero: Did you tried the SUBmarine tactic? Alt+SysReq+S (sync disks), wait until windows? linux? frebsd? this is Linux - but only if the SysReq function has been compiled into the kernel options (when

Re: Newbie Developer's Question

2000-07-17 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, The console is nice to debug them, but not to do full script development (IMO). I doubt anybody uses it beyond testing some lines of code or fix something, like erasing "hang" images or layers (does anybody do more than that? am I the "rare"?). I use the console to see what the command

Re: no X thankyou!!

2000-06-19 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, IIRC there is a X server that fakes that. It works as normal X, but never shows anything anywhere. Xvfb maybe? And of course, VNC. ..but this would stop normal X running on the machine - need a solution that allows the script to run every hour - whether I'm logged in, or not. alan

Re: script-fu-selection-round only with restart?

2000-06-15 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, The strange thing here is, that I can call this script once (it just gives me a white image with a rounded selection), but when I call this script again, I get the error message: Script-Fu Error ERROR: Procedural database execution failed: (gimp_selection_bounds 0) Only when I

Fonts problem with 1.1.23

2000-06-14 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, Well, the good news - I've got my script-fu batch working from a --bath command line. the bad news...it only works if the interface is loaded up :-| if I dont load the interface, my invoking of the ascii-img script-fu fails... is there a fix for this? Do I set some variable to allow

Re: gimp rmps

2000-06-14 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, rpm -Uvh perl-5.00505-10.i386.rpm put rpm -ivh instead alan

Re: Performance of Gimp vs. photoshop for large images

2000-06-07 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, this is linux specific, and wrong. It is very sensible of the kernel to swap out data that is likely not to be used for other apps like gimp. 'top' - thats a command featured in almost all un*x-style OS's Any non-obsolete linux kernel version can be expected to swap out 6-10mb even

Re: Performance of Gimp vs. photoshop for large images

2000-06-06 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, BTW, Unix "trashing" is rare to find, or at least to heard. When it moves data to disk it does not sound like Windows Machine Gun Swap Routine (TM), ;-) easiest way to see when you're swapping is to go to a shell and type 'free' - you shouldnt see the swap number used at all if you want

Re: Help with my mail

2000-06-06 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, Not the answer you expected, but pine cannot separate mail on its own. Yassen ..but your advice has helped me out (I was halfway to a working procmail) so it was worth saying anyway! :-) alan

Batch script problems

2000-05-31 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, I`ve created a list of commands using the Script-Fu dialog console that do exactly what I want it did take a long time to suss out some of the arguments...but thats fine, i like a challenge. however, I tried creating my own script-fu following the docs...but Gimp doesnt pick it up...