Re: [Gimp-user] smart resize

2004-10-11 Thread ben
w, though) and found that I needed to set my dpi to 100. I now use "startx -- :1 -dpi 100". So, if you're launching X in a non-standard way, you may want to give this a shot. Ben On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 12:22:20PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > Marco <[EMAIL PROT

[Gimp-user] Removing spine crease

2004-12-03 Thread ben powers
I have scanned a greyscale image from a book that spans two pages. How can I use the GIMP to remove the page curl in the middle of the image? This Photograph is COPYRIGHTED. I am using it for a high school project, which should fall under fair use. Join Friends of Falun Gong and help stop relig

[Gimp-user] contact sheets in GIMP

2004-12-06 Thread ben powers
One of my assignments in digital photo class is to make a contact sheet. That's an 8 1/2 X 11 printout of a page with multiple arranged images on it are there any GIMP templates for contact sheets? --- End religious persecution in China! Join Friends o

[Gimp-user] Happy Happy, Joy Joy

2005-01-02 Thread Ben Powers
This is Benny in Toronto wishing you a happy and jaggy-free new year in GIMP land peace! --- End religious persecution in China! Join Friends of Falun Gong www.FoFG.org ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lis

[Gimp-user] Re: Layers merging on exit (MNG plug-in is write only)

2005-01-25 Thread Ben Christy
Sven Neumann gimp.org> writes: > The plug-in is included by default but it can only save MNG and > doesn't have any code to load the files again. If you are creating MNG > animations with GIMP, you always need to keep a copy in XCF format. > > Sven > If there is a write plug-in then how hard

[Gimp-user] Gimp.app still crashing with pango

2005-04-27 Thread Ben Powers
I've been experiencing this crash in gimp.app 2.2.6, which was supposedly fixed in gimp 2.0.6 it occurs when I use the font menu to choose a font. ** (gimp-2.2:631): CRITICAL **: file pango-engine.c: line 68 (_pango_engine_shape_shape): assertion `PANGO_IS_FONT (font)' failed /Applications/Graph

[Gimp-user] bug hunting binaries for Fedora Core 4

2005-08-05 Thread Ben Liblit
The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project is a joint effort by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UC Berkeley, and Stanford University to bring debugging into the Internet age. Instrumented applications send feedback to our analysis center, where we use statistical debugging techniques to learn wha

[Gimp-user] Color Picker popup dialog.

2006-01-17 Thread Ben Foote
x27;m voting not at all. The reason being that you can easily get the color value of the color you just selected by click on the color in the main GIMP dock anyways. Its probably a design problem. But I digresscan anyone help me disable the popup or lend some insight? I

Re: [Gimp-user] Color Picker popup dialog.

2006-01-17 Thread Ben Foote
bly be aware of this behavior. Seems a smidge strange, but I'll take it =P Thanks for the help, -Ben On 1/17/06, Simon Budig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben Foote ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > But I digresscan anyone help me disable the popup or lend some > > insig

[Gimp-user] Re: Anti-Alias Shapes

2006-02-08 Thread Ben Conley
You could try feathering the selection. That's what I do. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

[Gimp-user] Clone Tool

2006-02-27 Thread Ben Conley
I was making a DVD cover for a restaurant the other day and needed to remove some text from the pic. Since GIMP doesn't seem to have a clone took, I had to use PhotoDeluxe (which I really don't want to do). So I was wondering, is there a way to emulate a clone tool in GIMP? ___

[Gimp-user] Re: Clone Tool

2006-02-28 Thread Ben Conley
Thanks, guys. The clone tool is a very effective tool at photo restoration. If you have a damaged region of the image, a lace collar, for example, the clone tool will allow you to rebuild the damages area without having to draw the lace yourself but by copying it from the other sections. I

[Gimp-user] Lightsaber

2006-03-27 Thread Ben Conley
Some friends of mine are trying to make a short Star Wars movie, and need lightsaber graphics. I intend to use GIMP to add it in frame by frame (joyously fun, I know) but don't know how to do it (a problem, to be sure). So does anyone here have any ideas/experience in making fairly good looki

[Gimp-user] Re: Lightsaber

2006-03-28 Thread Ben Conley
Thanks. I am using the baudalign one. It works quite well. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

[Gimp-user] Lightning

2006-03-31 Thread Ben Conley
I have found some tutorials on how to do lightning in GIMP, as well as the fractal, but none seem to be very realistic. Does anyone know how to make good lightning in GIMP? ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.

[Gimp-user] Re:64 bit

2006-06-05 Thread Ben Conley
I have been using GIMP on WinXP 64-bit (so shoot me) with an Athlon 64 3700+ and it works just fine.  ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

[Gimp-user] Python-fu

2006-06-25 Thread Ben Conley
I am trying to install the ‘Inpaint’ Python-Fu on GIMP 2.2.11 on Win32, but can’t seem to do it.  I have Python (the newest version; just downloaded it last week).  Does anyone know how to get this to work? ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-us

[Gimp-user] Stroke Paths - Taper option?

2006-06-27 Thread Ben Schreiner
t and/or development on the path tool. I much prefer working with vectors than with rasters in general, but Inkscape doesn't seem to support this either. TIA Ben Schreiner ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley

[Gimp-user] Re: Arrow

2006-06-28 Thread Ben Conley
Title: Re: Arrow Well, I don’t know about the arrow thing, but the thin anti-aliased line is very easy. The pencil does draw very aliased lines (which I suppose is good sometimes, maybe…) but the tool next to it, the brush, does a very nice job.  Select the brush tool and choose the ‘Circl

[Gimp-user] Build Gimp 3.x

2006-08-25 Thread Ben Conley
I am trying to build the latest development version of Gimp, but can’t figure out how to build it.  I am using WinXP, I have Visual Studio 2005, and know absolutely nothing about C (I’m a python guy).  Please help! ___ Gimp-user mailing lis

[Gimp-user] Blocking of Alan on the name topic

2006-10-04 Thread Ben Walker
ork) don't seem to be supporting this initiative by the keeping the above mentioned bug open. How does that make sense? There is no reason Alan should be blocked, and if you intend to moderate topics, than ban all messages regarding the topic, not just individuals who are

Re: [Gimp-user] paint tools and autoscroll

2006-12-04 Thread Ben Walker
as I often need to zoom in to place the line accurately. Ben W. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Interesting opinions

2006-12-05 Thread Ben Walker
han most of it's free competitors. I would love to see the open source world gather round and give PS a run for the money. Hopefully soon I will start helping out somehow myself, I am trying to plan for that. Ben W. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] paint tools and autoscroll

2006-12-05 Thread Ben Walker
Michael Schumacher wrote: > Von: Ben Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> I agree that normally autoscroll is not generally appropriate for >> painting. For drawing lines however, it could be very useful, if one >> knows exactly where one wants to begin and e

Re: [Gimp-user] Interesting opinions

2006-12-05 Thread Ben Walker
Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 11:13 -0500, Ben Walker wrote: > > >> There are no settings/plugins in GIMP (to my knowledge) that >> provide either a reliable MDI interface or a truly usable SDI >> interface. New settings recently ad

Re: [Gimp-user] Color selectors, which one do you use?

2006-12-05 Thread Ben Walker
reading about color design, it > makes more sense. > [Oops, sorry Anthony, I just sent this response to you.] I only use the default selector, but now that Anthony has mentioned the triangle and color design, I have become interested in that one :) However, I think I would be perfectly

[Gimp-user] Website

2006-12-05 Thread Ben Walker
I have. Right now I'd like to ask members to please post any suggestions/requests for the website. I would like to add your ideas to mine and get GIMP some real web presence! Ben W. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https:/

Re: [Gimp-user] How to get "step" gradient

2007-01-03 Thread Ben Walker
st the first idea to hit me; perhaps someone else has a better one. Ben W. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

[Gimp-user] FFMPEG in Windows

2007-02-06 Thread Ben Conley
I'm trying to use GAP for a school project, and need to save in MPG format. Does the FFMPEG format exist for Windows? I certainly don't have it if it does. Thanks ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley

Re: [Gimp-user] Remove white patches at corner

2007-02-23 Thread Ben Walker
p Mask" (make amount .1 or so, this is to sharpen the logo a bit). Save as a gif... When I do the above sequence, I get a nice sharp logo with no visible white artifacts. Good luck. Ben W. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Remove white patches at corner

2007-02-23 Thread Ben Walker
ry interesting to me (as a useful method for some of my own projects), but I couldn't get it to work... I tried many times... I am using a dev. version of GIMP (2.3.12) in case that makes a difference Ben ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Remove white patches at corner

2007-02-23 Thread Ben Walker
Ben Walker wrote: > Gerry JJ wrote: > >> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:55:41 +0100, Sudheer Satyanarayana >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> Can anybody tell me how to remove those white patches and make the image >>> neat? >&g

[Gimp-user] A tip of those who use GIMP in Windows

2007-03-09 Thread Ben Walker
tween open images as opposed to trying to locate the proper button on the taskbar. The image dialog offers previews, which are very helpful, and allows one to work with GIMP as if it were self-contained. Using this in conjunction with a virtual desktop leads to the best solution I have found so f

Re: [Gimp-user] Cut and paste from specific channels.

2007-03-12 Thread Ben Walker
3) If necessary, open a third image/layer as a blank one, since you wanted nothing in the green channel. (a blank image such as this must be black and also in greyscale mode) 4) Perform the "compose" function found in colors>>components and choose the layers for the appropriate ch

Re: [Gimp-user] Things GIMP do not have, or I do not know if have

2008-04-23 Thread Ben Walker
ity is great, but text ranks on the order of a paintbrush tool in importance IMHO. Ben ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Drawing simple shapes.

2008-04-29 Thread Ben Walker
tton is not for those savvy enough look for it in the tools palette, but for those novice users who want to draw a box or ellipse and can't figure out how to do it. IMHO, Ben ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

[Gimp-user] Switch to "docked"/integrated IDE (possible) ?

2009-02-19 Thread Ben Stover
possible (and if yes how?)? Ben ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] a question about shapes

2001-03-18 Thread Ben Logan
se the path, bring up the Paths dialog again, and right click in the palette area (the big white area) and choose "Import Path...". Select your file and Voila! I went through this process myself to make sure it worked, so if something doesn't work for you, let me know and I'll

Re: [Gimp-user] Research

2001-03-18 Thread Ben Logan
ct at http://www.opencontent.org. It doesn't cover programs, but much of the content covered by the license is from sources like the Linux Documentation Project (http://www.linuxdoc.org) and open source software documentation. Hope this helps, Ben Logan On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 12:39:37AM +1100, Reh

[Gimp-user] Scaling a path

2001-03-22 Thread Ben Logan
't show the path. I must be missing something. :) Thanks, Ben Logan ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] The Gimp compression facility

2001-04-27 Thread Ben Logan
Hey, I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for or not, but if you add a ".gz" or ".bz2" to the end of your filename, Gimp will automagically compress it with either gzip or bzip2 respectively. For example: penguin.jpg becomes penguin.jpg.gz or penguin.jpg.bz

[Gimp-user] Gimp-Python and Gimp 1.2?

2001-07-07 Thread Ben Logan
Hi, I'm learning Python and would like to install the gimp-python module. I see on the homepage that it works with gimp 1.0 and 1.1, but will it work with 1.2? Thanks, Ben Logan ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Gimp-user] Using the Python console with an existing image (was Re: Gimp-Python and Gimp 1.2?)

2001-07-10 Thread Ben Logan
t; image_ids (2,) >>> active_layer = pdb.gimp_image_get_active_layer(image_ids[0]) Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/lib/gimp/1.2/plug-ins/gtkcons.py", line 292, in run exec cmd in self.namespace File "", line 1, in ? TypeError: wrong para

Re: [Gimp-user] Creating more natural/traditional appearance effects?

2001-09-22 Thread Ben Logan
template files, so you can use the default gallery themes or create your own (as Angela has done). If anyone is interested, I can put it on the web for download. Regards, Ben Logan -- When Linux won't install on some hardware configuration, it means you you need to switch to Windoze; b

Re: [Gimp-user] Q: open gimp

2001-09-18 Thread Ben Logan
is in fact re-installing them, you have a problem with your Gimp installation.) Depending on the speed of your machine, how much memory you have, and the number of plugins you have, it can take a minute or two for it to load everything. Regards, Ben On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 06:04:05AM +,

Re: [Gimp-user] Creating thumbnails

2001-10-23 Thread Ben Logan
If your album is to be in HTML, you might try gphoto. You don't have to have a digital camera to use the Gallery feature, and the gallery themes are easily customized. It uses ImageMagik to do the thumbnails. See http://www.gphoto.org for more info. HTH, Ben On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at

Re: [Gimp-user] Banner printing in Windows

2002-01-16 Thread Ben Logan
it can't, I would look on Freshmeat for a banner-printing program. I'll bet there's one out there... Regards, Ben On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 12:07:22AM -0800, Dylan Leblanc wrote: > I am trying to print a 4 foot long (x 8.5 inch high) banner on a regular HP 842c >printer. Program

Re: [Gimp-user] Banner printing in Windows

2002-01-16 Thread Ben Logan
. Repeat the above process until you've done the whole image. I hope that's readable. :) It would definitely be easier as a script, but this'll do in a pinch. If I create a script for it, I'll let you know. HTH, Ben On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 12:07:22AM -0800, Dylan Leblanc wrot

Re: [Gimp-user] select tool moving but not cutting

2002-01-19 Thread Ben Logan
de the selection. If that's not it, try shift or ctrl, but I'm pretty sure it's alt. Regards, Ben -- Ben Logan: ben at wblogan dot net OpenPGP Key KeyID: A1ADD1F0 no brainer: A decision which, viewed through the retrospectoscope, is "obvious"

Re: [Gimp-user] Really easy newbie questions (I hope)...

2002-01-31 Thread Ben Logan
an alpha channel for use on the web. The browsers seem to do fine with a PNG without alpha, but really mess up with it. (You tell me why the browser companies take such a long time to support an open standard like PNG... :) Hope this helps, Ben On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 01:24:38AM -0800, Doris P

Re: [Gimp-user] is anybody here?

2002-02-11 Thread Ben Logan
> Gimp-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > -- Ben Logan: ben at wblogan dot net OpenPGP Key KeyID: A1ADD1F0 "I am your density." -- George McFly in "Back to the Future" __

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: is anybody here?

2002-02-11 Thread Ben Logan
k terrible in an terminal, but you shouldn't get any "Couldn't open font..." messages. Hope this helps, Ben -- Ben Logan: ben at wblogan dot net OpenPGP Key KeyID: A1ADD1F0 This is a good time to punt work. ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Perennially confusing font problems

2002-02-25 Thread Ben Logan
fonts, there seem to be many redundancies and many > more not too worthwhile. Other than today's action, I have the standard > RH install. Are there any of these directories I can comment out to > reduce the clutter? I don't see any reason why you couldn

Re: [Gimp-user] Guash? Xsane?

2002-06-04 Thread Ben Logan
774 permissions. I think that is sufficient because you don't need to write data to the scanner device, only read from it (mine anyway). Regards, Ben -- Ben Logan: ben at wblogan dot net OpenPGP Key KeyID: A1ADD1F0 The advertisement is the most truthful part of

Re: [Gimp-user] .pict files

2002-09-05 Thread Ben Logan
ing the Gimp can read. Regards, Ben -- Ben Logan: ben at wblogan dot net OpenPGP Key KeyID: A1ADD1F0 problem drinker, n.: A man who never buys. ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

[Gimp-user] prebuilt binaries for Fedora Core 2 & 1

2004-10-05 Thread Ben Liblit
The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project is a joint effort by UC Berkeley and Stanford to bring debugging into the Internet age. Instrumented applications send feedback to our analysis center, where we use statistical debugging techniques to learn what goes wrong when the software crashes. The projec

[Gimp-user] OSX: Gimp2 crashes when changing font

2004-10-07 Thread ben powers
GIMP crashes when i open the font menu (tool/text tool window) and scroll around for a font steps to reproduce: 1 Open my document (single layer xcf or tiff), 2 use text tool to put text in the image, 3 modify text font with the font button drop down menu. The menu does not refresh quickly, and s

Re: [Bulk] Re: [Gimp-user] OSX: Gimp2 crashes when changing font

2004-10-08 Thread ben powers
On 8-Oct-04, at 6:43 AM, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, ben powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: (gimp-2.0:710): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 1561 (g_object_ref): assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed ** (gimp-2.0:710): CRITICAL **: file pango-engine

Re: [Gimp-user] compiled GIMP 2.0.5 crashes on text dialog

2004-10-09 Thread ben powers
if you read OSX: Gimp2 crashes when changing font, you will notice that I have the same problem. It has been suggested that the problem is with freetype. I upgraded to freetype 2.1.9 and it seemed to work fine for a period of about 15 minutes, then crashed. On 9-Oct-04, at 9:40 AM, Josef Vybiral

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: compiled GIMP 2.0.5 crashes on text dialog

2004-10-09 Thread ben powers
These libraries I don't have up-to-date so the problem can be here. I compiled back G2.0.3 till I'll upgrade libraries. thnx Cornelius On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 12:28:12 -0400, ben powers wrote: if you read OSX: Gimp2 crashes when changing font, you will notice that I have the same probl

[Gimp-user] transforming with curves

2004-11-16 Thread ben powers
I have an image of a teacup and a sign. I would like to transform the sign so it appears to be printed on the curved surface of the tea cup. how can i do that? Fight Software patents in Europe and around the world!! http://petition.eurolinux.org ___ G