Re: [Gimp-user] Need help with "Help"!!! -- Att.: Sven

2009-02-26 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:12:09 EST, rlt46...@aol.com wrote: > 1. Please try asking me what I have/have not done before jumping to > conclusions. I have tried several (more than 3) times to download 2.6.5. I > when I > try to install I get the message that it is invalid or corrupt. Try anot

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help with "Help"!!! -- Att.: Sven

2009-02-26 Thread Michael Schumacher
rlt46...@aol.com wrote: > 5. Ooooh, nooo. now I am a dreaded Thread > Breaker!!! Whatever shall I do? I don't think I can live with myself. Please do read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Thanks. Michael -- GIMP > http://www.gimp.org |

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help with "Help"!!! -- Att.: Sven

2009-02-26 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:12 PM, wrote: [...] > All snide remarks aside... Just my opinion, but you should lighten up a bit. Sven is an active developer of GIMP, and if you go through the archives, there are a lot of people who post unanswerable/unintelligble questions on this list. I would gue

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help with "Help"!!! -- Att.: Sven

2009-02-26 Thread Rlt46gem
>>> Please update to GIMP 2.6.5 then. It is actually quite rude to waste other people's time like this. You are using an outdated version and should have updated to the latest stable release before asking. That would have saved all of us a lot of time. 1. Please try asking me what I have/hav

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help with "Help"!!! -- Att.: Sven

2009-02-26 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 21:37 -0500, rlt46...@aol.com wrote: > I am using Windows XL. > I am using GIMP 2.6.0. Please update to GIMP 2.6.5 then. It is actually quite rude to waste other people's time like this. You are using an outdated version and should have updated to the latest stable rele

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help with "Help"!!! -- Att.: Noel

2009-02-26 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 13:01 +0100, Michael Schumacher wrote: > - web/online: does not work, local version is used :) Uh, how should this be interpreted? This certainly work for me. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.E

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help with "Help"!!! -- Att.: Noel

2009-02-26 Thread Doug
Michael Schumacher wrote: >> Von: Doug >> > > >> tar.bz2 is a linux compressed file, so it won't be any use to you if >> you're running Windows. >> > > The point of this statement is true - someone who can make use of the file's > content as intended on Windows won't have to ask how

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help with "Help"!!! -- Att.: Noel

2009-02-26 Thread Doug
Andrew wrote: > Doug wrote: >> Ken Warner wrote: >> >>> I also would like to download the GIMP documentation and run it >>> locally. >>> But I can't find a help manual download. I only can find a tar.bz2 >>> tarball >>> and I don't think I have a program to open that... >>> >>> Where is a down

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help with "Help"!!! -- Att.: Noel

2009-02-26 Thread Michael Schumacher
> Von: Doug > tar.bz2 is a linux compressed file, so it won't be any use to you if > you're running Windows. The point of this statement is true - someone who can make use of the file's content as intended on Windows won't have to ask how to handle them - but I would like to point out that si

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help with "Help"!!! -- Att.: Noel

2009-02-26 Thread Andrew
Doug wrote: > Ken Warner wrote: > >> I also would like to download the GIMP documentation and run it locally. >> But I can't find a help manual download. I only can find a tar.bz2 >> tarball >> and I don't think I have a program to open that... >> >> Where is a downloadable GIMP help file with

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help with "Help"!!! -- Att.: Noel

2009-02-26 Thread Doug
Ken Warner wrote: > I also would like to download the GIMP documentation and run it locally. > But I can't find a help manual download. I only can find a tar.bz2 > tarball > and I don't think I have a program to open that... > > Where is a downloadable GIMP help file with all the HTML pages in it

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help with "Help"!!! -- Att.: Noel

2009-02-26 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Rebecca: > I know I can access the manual on line, but would rather not (see my > previous post to Doug). I don't understand the workaround you > describe... I really do not know that much, technically, about > computers. But if you have them installed on your "local system" > (hard drive?)

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help with "Help"!!! -- Att.: Noel

2009-02-26 Thread Michael Schumacher
> Von: Doug > P.S. Of course, this way the Help tab on Gimp won't work, but at least > you'll be able to read the Help Manual whenever you need it I wrote about it on a german forum yesterday, so let's summarize this again: We have two versions of the help files, local/online. We have two diff

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help with "Help"!!! -- Att.: Noel

2009-02-26 Thread Doug
Doug wrote: > rlt46...@aol.com wrote: >> >>> For the moment I use the following work-around: I have the help >> files >> (which are in html) installed at a known point on my system, and I have >> my web browser set to open them as a file on the local machine. When I >> run into an issue which ne

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help with "Help"!!! -- Att.: Noel

2009-02-26 Thread Doug
rlt46...@aol.com wrote: > >>> For the moment I use the following work-around: I have the help > files > (which are in html) installed at a known point on my system, and I have > my web browser set to open them as a file on the local machine. When I > run into an issue which necessitates my consu

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help with "Help"!!! -- Att.: Doug

2009-02-26 Thread Doug
rlt46...@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 2/25/2009 2:40:23 P.M. Central Standard Time, > doug_bainbri...@onetel.com writes: > > >>> Are you using Windows, linux or Mac? Let us know please. > I think with linux your easiest route is to have an internet > connection > running. G

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help with "Help"!!! -- Att.: Noel

2009-02-25 Thread Rlt46gem
>>> For the moment I use the following work-around: I have the help files (which are in html) installed at a known point on my system, and I have my web browser set to open them as a file on the local machine. When I run into an issue which necessitates my consulting the helpd files, I op

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help with "Help"!!! -- Att.: Doug

2009-02-25 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Rebecca, when you wrote, in part > > I am using Windows XL. I assume you meant Windows XP ns ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help with "Help"!!! -- Att.: Doug

2009-02-25 Thread Rlt46gem
In a message dated 2/25/2009 2:40:23 P.M. Central Standard Time, doug_bainbri...@onetel.com writes: >>> Are you using Windows, linux or Mac? Let us know please. I think with linux your easiest route is to have an internet connection running. Gimp should find the website http://docs.gimp.o

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help with "Help"!!! -- Att.: Sven

2009-02-25 Thread Rlt46gem
In a message dated 2/25/2009 3:53:04 P.M. Central Standard Time, s...@gimp.org writes: >>> You did not tell us what operating system you are on. You did not tell us what version of GIMP you have installed, nor what version of the GIMP user manual you did install. How are we supposed to he

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help with "Help"!!!

2009-02-25 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 13:24 -0500, rlt46...@aol.com wrote: > > Some time ago another person and I both asked how to get the Help > function to work. I still haven't seen any answer and I think the > questions got lost in the flurry of other more technical questions. > > I have Gimp (insta

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help with "Help"!!!

2009-02-25 Thread Doug
Are you using Windows, linux or Mac? Let us know please. I think with linux your easiest route is to have an internet connection running. Gimp should find the website http://docs.gimp.org/en/ automatically. Doug rlt46...@aol.com wrote: Hello, Some time ago another person and I both asked how

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help with "Help"!!!

2009-02-25 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Rebecca, I, too, asked about the same problem with the help files you did back in November 08, at which time I was told it was a known issue, and was expected to be fixed in the next release. For the moment I use the following work-around: I have the help files (which are in html) installed a

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help with help

2008-02-12 Thread Axel Wernicke
I would suggest to ask this on the wilder-loves-apple Forum. Since they did the packaging, they should know how to fix this issue. Greetings, lexA -- Watch out where the huskies go, don't you eat that yellow snow. Am 12.02.2008 um 20:33 schrieb Jim Sabatke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > edward storm

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help with help

2008-02-12 Thread Jim Sabatke
edward storm wrote: > Although I am able to make progress in Peck's "Beginning GIMP" I have > not been able to access or use > the Gimp help files. When I click on Help in The Gimp > I get nothing. In my root directory (Leopard) in addition to > Macintosh HD and Network I have Gimp, he