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

2015-10-01 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 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 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 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