Re: [Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

2015-10-03 Thread Partha Bagchi
I presume you are asking me about "official build". Michael can tell you more about it. It's the build provided by GIMP maintainers. If that build does not include jp2 support, you'll have to ask Michael. My builds obtained from my website have jp2 support built in. HTH, Partha On Sat, Oct 3,

Re: [Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

2015-10-03 Thread Neal Weissman
what do you mean by 'official build' - i installed the gimp 2.8 on windows 10 from the official gimp site five days ago. although several reviews implied that 2.8 does have .jp2 capability i see no tangible manifestation of such. /s/ Neal Weissman On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Partha Bagchi w

Re: [Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

2015-10-03 Thread Partha Bagchi
Perhaps. I assumed that the official build would have it built in as mine does. On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Michael Schumacher wrote: > > > On 10/03/2015 07:28 PM, Partha Bagchi wrote: > >> Of course GIMP can open jp2 files. Where did you hear that it cannot? > > It does that if JPEG-2000 su

Re: [Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

2015-10-03 Thread Michael Schumacher
On 10/03/2015 07:28 PM, Partha Bagchi wrote: > Of course GIMP can open jp2 files. Where did you hear that it cannot? It does that if JPEG-2000 support is compiled in. This is not necessarily so for all builds out there. -- Regards, Michael GPG: 96A8 B38A 728A 577D 724D 60E5 F855 53EC B36D 4C

Re: [Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

2015-10-03 Thread Partha Bagchi
Of course GIMP can open jp2 files. Where did you hear that it cannot? On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Neal Weissman wrote: > i solicited the gimp forum because I thought that gimp might open the .jp2 > files, but we are indeed digressing from the purpose of this forum. my > tablet does not have a

Re: [Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

2015-10-03 Thread Neal Weissman
i solicited the gimp forum because I thought that gimp might open the .jp2 files, but we are indeed digressing from the purpose of this forum. my tablet does not have an external keyboard and the touchpad keyboard lacks many keys found on a physical keyboard - ESC is absent in particular. i also do

Re: [Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

2015-10-03 Thread Neal Weissman
i've attached a .png screen capture; hopefully you can see it. you can see that the .gz unzipped to 517 .jp2 files. i can only reason to deal with these 517 sequential files as a slideshow .. can you think of another way? i can see no way to display a slide show other than 'fullscreen'; fullscree

Re: [Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

2015-10-02 Thread Bob Long
Neal Weissman wrote on 03/10/15 15:00: > i've attached a .png screen capture; hopefully you can see it. > > you can see that the .gz unzipped to 517 .jp2 files. i can only reason > to deal with these 517 sequential files as a slideshow .. can you think > of another way? We are getting off topic

Re: [Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

2015-10-02 Thread Bob Long
Neal Weissman wrote on 03/10/15 02:32: > irfanview is indeed lauded for being plenary but i haven't had success > with it: irfanview's toolbar should as you say contain a “proceed to the > successor page” button but i don't see it - i only see a “progress to > the next *file* ” button. also, the t

Re: [Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

2015-10-02 Thread Neal Weissman
irfanview is indeed lauded for being plenary but i haven't had success with it: irfanview's toolbar should as you say contain a “proceed to the successor page” button but i don't see it - i only see a “progress to the next *file* ” button. also, the toolbar appears only in one or two views - the de

Re: [Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

2015-10-01 Thread Bob Long
I had written: > But the script [to sequentially open images] does not include .jp2 files in > its list. > Probably easy to modify the script to do that as it is a text file). > GIMP 2.8 itself will open .jp2 files. Well, I modified the script so that it does open a .jp2 file. But when it comes

Re: [Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

2015-10-01 Thread Bob Long
Neal Weissman wrote on 02/10/15 08:07: > i have not encountered anything native to windows 10 that opens .jp2; Regarding Windows 10: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Photo_Viewer Not sure if it does .jp2 but doesn't seem promising. > that's why i'm trying so many third-party softwares - t

Re: [Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

2015-10-01 Thread Akkana Peck
Neal Weissman writes: > What's the difference between a viewer and a converter? An image viewer is something you use to view a lot of images -- what you're trying to do with this book. (Though why anyone would distribute a book in as a bunch of jp2 images is beyond me.) An image converter sounds

Re: [Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

2015-10-01 Thread Neal Weissman
apologies: the correct url is www.faststone.org , *not* fastone.org /s/ Neal Weissman On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 2:27 AM, Bob Long wrote: > Neal Weissman wrote on 01/10/15 14:21: > > > Thank You Bob. > > > > But I need to confess that I'm a newbie and I don't know how to use an > > .scm file;am I

Re: [Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

2015-10-01 Thread Neal Weissman
i have not encountered anything native to windows 10 that opens .jp2; that's why i'm trying so many third-party softwares - the latest being http://www.fastone.org .. and this latest too does not seem like it's friendly to a tablet with touchpad keyboard or else i don't understand how to work it:

Re: [Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

2015-09-30 Thread Bob Long
Neal Weissman wrote on 01/10/15 14:21: > Thank You Bob. > > But I need to confess that I'm a newbie and I don't know how to use an > .scm file;am I supposed to place it into a specified gimp folder? And do > you know whether it will work for .jp2 - I see that it accommodates .jpg > but I don't k

Re: [Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

2015-09-30 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 01:37:37 -0400 Neal Weissman wrote: > i just installed gimp 2.8. > > i downloaded a book in .gz which when unzipped yields 517 sequential .jp2 > files (each sequential file of course yielding a page of the book). How can > I use gimp to open these .jp2 files sequentially? If

Re: [Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

2015-09-30 Thread Neal Weissman
Thank You Bob. But I need to confess that I'm a newbie and I don't know how to use an .scm file;am I supposed to place it into a specified gimp folder? And do you know whether it will work for .jp2 - I see that it accommodates .jpg but I don't know whether that means that it will accommodate “jpeg

Re: [Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

2015-09-30 Thread Bob Long
Neal Weissman wrote on 30/09/15 15:37: > i just installed gimp 2.8. > > i downloaded a book in .gz which when unzipped yields 517 sequential .jp2 > files (each sequential file of course yielding a page of the book). How can > I use gimp to open these .jp2 files sequentially? There is a script fo

[Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

2015-09-30 Thread Neal Weissman
i just installed gimp 2.8. i downloaded a book in .gz which when unzipped yields 517 sequential .jp2 files (each sequential file of course yielding a page of the book). How can I use gimp to open these .jp2 files sequentially? I read that Irfanview would be capable but i can't figure out how to u