RE: can gimp do this?

2000-09-11 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
Hi all, > > Jonny: > > Assume 3600 seconds per hour, and 1000 images. The > > average time per image could not exceed 3.6 seconds > > per hour available. > > Tamas: > If you assume, that gimp run in only one task... it > can help to reduce time and memory usage. (more than > one task in one time

RE: can gimp do this?

2000-09-11 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
Hi all, > > Jonny: > > Assume 3600 seconds per hour, and 1000 images. The > > average time per image could not exceed 3.6 seconds > > per hour available. > > Tamas: > If you assume, that gimp run in only one task... it > can help to reduce time and memory usage. (more than > one task in one time

RE: can gimp do this?

2000-09-11 Thread eanweb
Thanks very much to all for your input! As i stated before, i will need to generate image based on Helvetica Neue font. I installed Gimp and noticed the following using GUI: I can specify Helvetica in "Font" section but "Font style" only contains hp-roman8, medium, medium oblique, bold, bold ob

Re: can gimp do this?

2000-09-11 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, > REQUIREMENTS: > 1) ability to generate .gif > 2) image quality is very important > 3) controllable image sizes > 4) controllable font sizes > 5) ability to generate black matte around text > 6) Text alignment within image should be controlled > 7) Helvetica Neue font must be supported >

RE: can gimp do this?

2000-09-11 Thread Tamas Gervai
> Assume 3600 seconds per hour, and 1000 images. The average > time per image could not exceed 3.6 > seconds per hour available. if you assume, that gimp run in only one task... it can help to reduce time and memory usage. (more than one task in one time, but with shared memory. if i'm not wron

Re: can gimp do this?

2000-09-10 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
Hi all, Assume 3600 seconds per hour, and 1000 images. The average time per image could not exceed 3.6 seconds per hour available. The sheer quantity of images could require a creative solution. I think GIMP could do it, but that would depend on being able to use a single GIMP session for th

Re: can gimp do this?

2000-09-10 Thread eanweb
Hello Thank you All for your responses. This is how i planned to use it: There will be a batch process on AIX running once a day at night. it will pull text values (up to 1000 of them) from a database or file system and wrap each one into an image to be used as a label on our web site. REQUIRE

Re: can gimp do this?

2000-09-09 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 02:41:03PM -0700, "Jonathan E. Paton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes... but could be slow. If you run GIMP in batch mode then GIMP loads itself >again for each You forget that gimp can be programmed using a variety of languages - the shell interface (if one could call

Re: can gimp do this?

2000-09-08 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
Hi, Yes... but could be slow. If you run GIMP in batch mode then GIMP loads itself again for each instance. This explains the frequent mention of ImageMagic for batch image conversion. What is your function? Webcounters can be done with a function in PHP. You create a single image with you

can gimp do this?

2000-09-08 Thread eanweb
Hi All, Are there any other gimp web resources besides gimp.org? i need to be able to generate images from text on AIX platform. Some considerations are: 1. the text to be processed will be of the following font: Helvetica Neue. 2. the text color and size must be variable, with black matte ar