Test

2001-01-09 Thread Jonathan Gift
Testing. -- "Hey, I think I finally got the hang of i-"

Gimp Lists?

2001-01-09 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, The Gimp web page recommended this list but so far I see no activity at all. Are there other lists that I should know of? Thanks, Jonathan -- "Hey, I think I finally got the hang of i-"

Re: Gimp Lists?

2001-01-09 Thread Jonathan Gift
Carol Spears wrote: Ask them a question. Asking them how to draw a straight line is always fun. Wow, I've been on some 10 hrs now and this my second mesage from the wilderness. And in answer to my cry for recognition. I figured everyone was very hush hush, or it was the Zen approach to

Re: Gimp Lists?

2001-01-09 Thread Jonathan Gift
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, everyone knows everything now, for there's no further need for discussion. Ah, the almighty God approach to list management. Mount Olympus style, eh? I am currently designing a sticker to customize keyboards. It says "ANY". Stickers are $3 USD each,

Bed

2001-01-09 Thread Jonathan Gift
Open Letter to Gimp-Users Okay all, I know you're out there now. I'm off to bed because it's close to 11PM here and it's been 15hrs uptime on the Linux box. So, I'm expecting a full mailbox in the morning with in depth discussions on textures versus gradients, insights into writing scripts, the

Re: rpm's?

2001-01-10 Thread Jonathan Gift
Javier Hernandez wrote: I missed the message. Did you find the gimp's RPMs ? Did anyone post any deb's of Gimp 1.2? And if so, compiled against the current potato or woody? Thanks, Jonathan -- "Hey, I think I finally got the hang of i-"

Re: Bed

2001-01-10 Thread Jonathan Gift
robert lund wrote: Oh really. Well its something here. Im thorloy board. just sending mail from my bordom. oh and a bord noard board bo...zz Well, there was a brief spurt of activity this morning when some 4 messages flew across the screen and since then it's been the

Re: rpm's?

2001-01-11 Thread Jonathan Gift
Christopher S. Swingley wrote: # apt-get update # apt-get install gimp1.2 gimp1.2-perl These packages worked great for me, but I've been tracking unstable fairly closely for years now, so if you're still using potato, YMMV. I looked on the main debian site and couldn't find

Re: Creating smoke?

2001-01-11 Thread Jonathan Gift
Jon Winters wrote: Try the Plazma plugin on a blank layer, desaturate it and adjust the transparency. Erase the areas where you don't want smoke. Great, thanks for the feedback. Will do so now... Jonathan "Hey, I think I finally got the hang of i-"

Smoothing gradient Q...

2001-01-12 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I'm doing a left to right gradient, dark blue to black so that a narrow 2 inch bank of blue apperas before fading into black. the problme is that the band has uneven bars of various hue there. I tried Blur to smooth it out, and adding another deeper colored layer, etc. No go. How can I

Re: Smoothing gradient Q...

2001-01-12 Thread Jonathan Gift
Jon Winters wrote: Sounds like your display is not set to 24 or 36 bit color. You'll always see banding, even tho it may not really be in the image, if you're running less than 24bit color. Banding, eh? I'm on 24 bit. Always have been and just ran a check, still am... Even hough I have

Re: Making Transparent from Non-Transparent

2001-01-12 Thread Jonathan Gift
Seth Burgess wrote: Try out my plug-in, colortoalpha. Its found under Filters/Colors/Color To Alpha... Don't have it, at least on 1.04 which came with potato and I'm trying to get my hand on something more recent... Have you an url for it? BTW, all the plugins I've seen come in source?

Re: rpm's?

2001-01-12 Thread Jonathan Gift
Andrew Kieschnick wrote: Note that gimp 1.2 says it needs gtk 1.2.8, but the package only depends on = 1.2.0 for some reason. I don't know if it will work with 1.2.8. 1.2.8 is available from Helix though. Potato has GTK 1.2.7... Let me know if you want the packages I built, and I'll

Re: Smoothing gradient Q...

2001-01-13 Thread Jonathan Gift
syngin wrote: are you starting the gradient about an inch in from the edge of the page by chance? if so, try starting the gradient on the edge of the layer (or outside the layer). this might be from the all-to-obvious department, but who knows? Nope, on the edge and in about 2 inches on my

Re: Q: Recommended graphics cards?

2001-01-14 Thread Jonathan Gift
Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote: ATI are nice too, I had one, good 2D, and new models are supported cos ATI pays coders, and the code goes into XFree (I have been thinking about getting one again, ATI cares, and this way support will last longer). Matrox is good too (using one

Got a working Gimp 1.2-Thanks Q

2001-01-14 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, The Xemian gimp 1.2 seems to have done the trick. It does go in as ~/.gimp-1.2. Is this particular to the new gimp or this build? Any way to get an old generic .gimp (I moved my earlier one so as to avoid just this). Thanks. Jonathan

Re: Got a working Gimp 1.2-Thanks Q

2001-01-14 Thread Jonathan Gift
Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote: Gimp uses dirs with version so you can mix installs or it does not crash after a big update (some config items are not compatible). After getting "nice" cores with other apps, I think Gimp way is good, you can always move one item at a time, or

Anyway to change ~/.gimp-1.2 name?

2001-01-15 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I posted this earlier but part of a longer message. I have the new Helix compiled Gimp 1.2 and the installtion program offers me only the .gimp-1.2 home directory. I've tried changing the path in preferences and no go. So, is this particular to this build, or all the new Gimp 1.2? Gimp 1.04

What's with .xvpics dir?

2001-01-16 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, With the new gimp1.2 I just noticed .xvpics directories popping up like mushrooms. This something to do with preview settings? Or? How do I turn this off and is this a good thing? Thanks. Jonathan

Re: What's with .xvpics dir?

2001-01-16 Thread Jonathan Gift
Thomas Gritsch wrote: Jonathan Gift wrote: Hi, With the new gimp1.2 I just noticed .xvpics directories popping up like mushrooms. This something to do with preview settings? As far as I know .xvpics directories are used to store previews. Ah, ha! I thought so. Is there a generic way

Re: What's with .xvpics dir?

2001-01-16 Thread Jonathan Gift
Wandered Inn wrote: Shame, for one brief moment I thought it was a coded hidden mesage from the programmers. You know, like "Paul is dead"... You have to view them backwards At half the usual compression? Jonathan

Re: What's with .xvpics dir?

2001-01-16 Thread Jonathan Gift
Stephan Henningsen stephan@m?gtest.dk wrote: a standard developed by the XV-team. I like GIMP being able to make use of it. It's simple small images (in some obscure format =) saved in a hidden directory called .xvpics. Thanks. Does it pick where it saves these? So far I've worked in two

Re: What's with .xvpics dir?

2001-01-16 Thread Jonathan Gift
Wandered Inn wrote: Shame, for one brief moment I thought it was a coded hidden mesage from the programmers. You know, like "Paul is dead"... You have to view them backwards At half the usual compression? So you've heard it too? Shh. Not so loud. I have to adjust my

Re: What's with .xvpics dir?

2001-01-16 Thread Jonathan Gift
Wandered Inn wrote: Shame, for one brief moment I thought it was a coded hidden mesage from the programmers. You know, like "Paul is dead"... You have to view them backwards At half the usual compression? So you've heard it too? Shh. Not so loud. I

Re: What's with .xvpics dir?

2001-01-16 Thread Jonathan Gift
Wandered Inn wrote: I think they know... AHHH! N! Damn. Got him. You drop the foil a minute and it's all over. The voices inside my head want to let you know you'll be missed. I hope it's over with quickly. I hope they don't play the Wayne

Q: Gradient Transparent -Color?

2001-01-18 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I want to darken parts of a pic so up to now I've layered in a black to color gradient. But better would be to leave parts transparent and so was wondering if I lay down, and how, a gradient that goes from transparent to a color. In other words, a gradualy appearing color? Thanks. Jonathan

Re: Q: Gradient Transparent -Color?

2001-01-18 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi Teri, Nope, no one got back to me and the other post on changing colors got 76 replies (er, roughly). I think the group's sending me a RTFM message especially when your advice is actually to look at the tools option... Thanks, BTW, it's exactly what I wanted. Ok, so I'm a moron. That doesn't

Re: Gimp Build

2001-01-19 Thread Jonathan Gift
Dominic Knight wrote: Did you sink or swim ? Glup. Ok, ok. The ./configurew ent ok, except it coughed up it was missing Perl stuff. I the put in the perl gimp lib and it complianed I had the wrong version of perl. I that point I banged my head on the wall a couple times and noticed I was

Re: Gimp Build

2001-01-19 Thread Jonathan Gift
Andrew Kieschnick wrote: Once you've installed the Ximian Gnome packages, you should be able to build Gimp 1.2 (assuming you install the Ximian -dev packages) on potato. Um, interesting. But I haven't installed Ximian and I don't intend to. If it was just Perl, it's one thing. I have a

Re: Gimp Build

2001-01-19 Thread Jonathan Gift
Andrew Kieschnick wrote: Installing Ximian doesn't involve upgrading perl. If you want to see what it does upgrade, look at their Packages.gz. Its basically Gtk+, the Gnome libs, and some Gnome apps. Ximian doesn't, compiling does. I thought we were talking about that. It's why I didn't

How do calendar?

2001-02-08 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, With the cal 2001 command I can get the year's calendar displayed on a terminal or shot to a file. Q: How can I use that as background, as in paste? Any ideas. Thanks. -- Jonathan Gift

Gimp Help Browser?

2001-02-08 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Is there a default browser Gimp 1.04 or the new 1.2 uses? Like Netscape or the Gnome Help browser? Thanks. -- Jonathan Gift

Re: How do calendar?

2001-02-08 Thread Jonathan Gift
? Default? Thanks. -- Jonathan Gift

Re: How do calendar?

2001-02-08 Thread Jonathan Gift
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: (1) the "fax" command will convert text into a faxible TIFF, so (2) create call-2001.txt as above. I don't have fax program loaded. Can check dselect... Latex neither. Nothing simpler, um? straight text with a transparent bg is the objective... -- Jonathan Gift

Re: How do calendar?- Thanks all!

2001-02-09 Thread Jonathan Gift
Wandered Inn wrote: It appears that each line of text is a separate layer which might make it easier to line things up. The formatting was a bit off, but it worked. Thanks for the info and thanks to the group for the numerous responses. I'm still trying the perl script... -- Jonathan Gift

Thanks help calendar

2001-02-11 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Thanks all for the help. I think I'm covered here for now. I've got the assorted options on file and have tried most. -- Jonathan Gift

Segfault on Gimp1.2 Script-Fu?

2001-02-11 Thread Jonathan Gift
script, or my install is missing something? Thanks for any pointers. -- Jonathan Gift

Solved Text Answer

2001-02-12 Thread Jonathan Gift
to all those placing kernel code samples on their wallpaper background on Themes... -- Jonathan Gift

Script-Fu crashes others?

2001-02-13 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I upgraded to the new Gimp 1.2.1 but I still get Script-Fu crashes, especially on the Puzzle plugin. Gimp itself is fine. Anyone else has this? -- Jonathan Gift

Creating smoke?

2001-01-11 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Now I'm new to this list and so don't know if this is appropriate... I'd like to create some swirling smoke as from someone smoking and have tried swirl, etc on a grey gradient but doesn't quite cut it. Hs this been done and how? I'm ure it has, but the how is the question. Sort of like the