Newbie questions.

2000-03-24 Thread Guido Bressan
I am an absolute newbie to GIMP. I have installed it on two different systems about one month ago and I have a question for each of them. 1) The first installation is at my office, in a Sun Solaris 2.5.1 environment. The problem is that I can't make GIMP work with jpg images. I found somewhere th

Re: Newbie questions.

2000-03-24 Thread Lars Burgstahler
Hi Guido, to your second question: Which version of GIMP did you install? The one that came with SuSE 6.3 is very unstable. It sounds like you have this one. Trying to make a banner (sounds like Xtension) will definitely lead to a crash. Try to get the latest version (1.1.18?). I have this one in

Re: Newbie questions.

2000-03-24 Thread Guido Bressan
Lars Burgstahler wrote: > > Hi Guido, Hi Lars, thanks for your reply! > to your second question: Which version of GIMP did you install? The > one that came with SuSE 6.3 is very unstable. It sounds like you have > this one. Got it! Congratulations! :-) > Trying to make a banner (sounds like

Large images

2000-03-24 Thread Joachim Ansorg
Hi! I really like the GIMP. But it's unusable for large images (e.g. 2000x2000 pixels). My brother had to copy one big image into another: -My home partitiion was completely filled (115 MB of GIMP swap) -GIMP used more than 60MB of RAM My PC is a AMD K6/2 300 MHZ and 128MB of RAM. Is there a

Re: Newbie questions.

2000-03-24 Thread Wandered Inn
Lars Burgstahler wrote: > Trying to make a banner (sounds like Xtension) will definitely lead > to a crash. So this prompts a question. I was not aware that GIMP could generate banners. How is this done? -- Until later: Geoffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm afraid there will be more probl

Re: Newbie questions.

2000-03-24 Thread Ryan Alexander Neily
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Guido Bressan wrote: > I am an absolute newbie to GIMP. I have installed it on two different > systems about one month ago and I have a question for each of them. . My PC is rather low on RAM, > 32MB only, the swap space is 128MB, the Linux disk is 6GB and the > processor i

Re: Large images

2000-03-24 Thread Mogens Jæger
Joachim Ansorg wrote: > Hi! > > I really like the GIMP. > > But it's unusable for large images (e.g. 2000x2000 pixels). My brother had to copy >one big image into another: > > -My home partitiion was completely filled (115 MB of GIMP swap) > -GIMP used more than 60MB of RAM > > My PC is a AMD K6

Re: Large images

2000-03-24 Thread Péter
Mogens Jćger wrote: > Joachim Ansorg wrote: > > I really like the GIMP. > > But it's unusable for large images (e.g. 2000x2000 pixels). My brother had to copy >one big image into another: > > -My home partitiion was completely filled (115 MB of GIMP swap) > > -GIMP used more than 60MB of RAM >

Re: Newbie questions.

2000-03-24 Thread Péter
Guido Bressan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found somewhere that I had to download, compile and install > a "jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz", which I did. First I performed a standard > installation, making the jpeg executables visible to GIMP by linking > them from the "lib/gimp/1.0/plug-ins" directory, th

gimp-skip...and sssslow?

2000-03-24 Thread Philips, Dan
Subject:gimpskip? - i'm working on an o2 sgi. - i'm using GIMP ( ==> for the first time <== ) to cut mattesto paint touchups on background art, etc. (the resaved files are then used in ER, MAYA, ANIMO, & SHAKE2) - i've looked at the dox but.. i continue to have both timelag d

Re: Newbie questions.

2000-03-24 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
[Some comments, maybe bit off topic] >3) I understand as well that one has to be careful not to have too large a >swap space compared to your actual RAM, as it can end up slowing thigs >down. Well, swap / RAM size is a tricky thing, some OS force you how much swap you must have, others leave you

Re: Large images

2000-03-24 Thread Mogens Jæger
Joachim Ansorg wrote: > Hi! > > Which version of GIMP are you using? I am using version 1.1.13 - (I have just changed from the RedHat distribution to Mandrake - what a difference), and because I don't have a really fast connection for downloads, I use the version that came whith the distributi