[Gimp-user] Adobe Illustrator output.

2007-05-03 Thread John R. Culleton
Gimp (and other programs) can use Adobe Illustrator output with one small change. Just rename the file from foo.ai to foo.pdf. It is actually pdf 1.4 in format. I have used this trick on two different projects. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reas

[Gimp-user] Covering up

2007-05-03 Thread David Holland
I am a novice gimp user. I want to change some photos so a swimming costume is more decent. Is there any information anywhere on how to do this ? First

Re: [Gimp-user] Covering up

2007-05-03 Thread John Meyer
David Holland wrote: > I am a novice gimp user. I want to change some photos so a swimming > costume is more decent. Is there any information anywhere on how to > do this ? > You're going to provide a little bit more information. I'll lay off the loaded words and ask: How much more of the per

[Gimp-user] going digital

2007-05-03 Thread Andrew
Hello, I'm thinking of moving into the 21st century and getting a bottom-end digital reflex, preferably Pentax for the sake of nostalgia. Can anyone advise me from a technical point of view as to what I need in order to be able to get pictures into GIMP for editing? I use Slackware 11. TIA, A

Re: [Gimp-user] going digital

2007-05-03 Thread Kristian Rink
Andrew; [Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> @ Thu, 03 May 2007 15:54:17 +0200] > I'm thinking of moving into the 21st century and getting a bottom-end > digital reflex, preferably Pentax for the sake of nostalgia. Can > anyone advise me from a technical point of view as to what I need in > order to be a

Re: [Gimp-user] going digital

2007-05-03 Thread Fabrizio Lippolis
Andrew ha scritto: > I'm thinking of moving into the 21st century and getting a bottom-end > digital reflex, preferably Pentax for the sake of nostalgia. Can anyone > advise me from a technical point of view as to what I need in order to > be able to get pictures into GIMP for editing? I use Sl

Re: [Gimp-user] going digital

2007-05-03 Thread Alexander Rabtchevich
You will need several things at least. 1. A program to copy your images from the camera into PC, especially if the device is not seen as USB drive. Maybe gphoto will be of help. http://gphoto.org/ 2. I would recommend you shooting in RAW. In order to import your photos directly in GIMP or process

Re: [Gimp-user] going digital

2007-05-03 Thread John R. Culleton
On Thursday 03 May 2007 10:03, Kristian Rink wrote: > Andrew; > > [Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> @ Thu, 03 May 2007 15:54:17 +0200] > > > I'm thinking of moving into the 21st century and getting a > > bottom-end digital reflex, preferably Pentax for the sake of > > nostalgia. Can anyone advise me from

Re: [Gimp-user] Adobe Illustrator output.

2007-05-03 Thread Chris Mohler
On 5/3/07, John R. Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gimp (and other programs) can use Adobe Illustrator output with one > small change. Just rename the file from foo.ai to foo.pdf. It is > actually pdf 1.4 in format. I have used this trick on two different > projects. Which version(s) of AI

Re: [Gimp-user] going digital

2007-05-03 Thread Rikard Johnels
On Thursday 03 May 2007 16:08, Fabrizio Lippolis wrote: > Andrew ha scritto: > > I'm thinking of moving into the 21st century and getting a bottom-end > > digital reflex, preferably Pentax for the sake of nostalgia. Can anyone > > advise me from a technical point of view as to what I need in order

Re: [Gimp-user] Covering up

2007-05-03 Thread David Holland
The bikini was slightly damaged so instead of all the breasts being covered it shows about 70%. However the person in question wants to a) keep the picture and b) show it to other people. John Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David Holland wrote: > I am a novice gimp user. I want to change

Re: [Gimp-user] RAW format from digital camera.

2007-05-03 Thread Robin Laing
david wrote: > On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 20:03 -0400, John R. Culleton wrote: >> My digital camera will take pictures and store them in jpg mode but >> also in RAW mode. RAW mode takes up more room. I hve a couple of >> questions. >> >> 1. Will Gimp handle this RAW mode? If so what suffix should I us

Re: [Gimp-user] Adobe Illustrator output.

2007-05-03 Thread John R. Culleton
On Thursday 03 May 2007 10:34, Chris Mohler wrote: > On 5/3/07, John R. Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gimp (and other programs) can use Adobe Illustrator output with > > one small change. Just rename the file from foo.ai to foo.pdf. > > It is actually pdf 1.4 in format. I have used this

Re: [Gimp-user] Adobe Illustrator output.

2007-05-03 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 08:20 -0400, John R. Culleton wrote: > Gimp (and other programs) can use Adobe Illustrator output with one > small change. Just rename the file from foo.ai to foo.pdf. It is > actually pdf 1.4 in format. If these files are really PDF files, then GIMP should detect th

Re: [Gimp-user] Adobe Illustrator output.

2007-05-03 Thread Claus Cyrny
Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 08:20 -0400, John R. Culleton wrote: > >> Gimp (and other programs) can use Adobe Illustrator output with one >> small change. Just rename the file from foo.ai to foo.pdf. It is >> actually pdf 1.4 in format. >> > > If these files are

Re: [Gimp-user] Covering up

2007-05-03 Thread Chris Mohler
On 5/3/07, David Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The bikini was slightly damaged so instead of all the breasts being covered > it shows about 70%. However the person in question wants to a) keep the > picture and b) show it to other people. Well, if there's a sizeable portion of the bikini m