Re: open dialog preview question/bug

2001-02-01 Thread Uwe Koloska
You wrote on Dienstag, 30. Januar 2001 20:33: On 30 Jan 2001 - 11:00 Roel Vanhout wrote: When opening a file, selecting it in the open dialog and clicking 'generate preview', the file is not selected any more. Hi Roel, just select all files in the directory and click on den 'preview' button.

open dialog preview question/bug

2001-01-30 Thread Roel Vanhout
Hi all, When opening a file, selecting it in the open dialog and clicking 'generate preview', the file is not selected any more. So if you have a directory with a lot of files and you are looking for a specific one but don't know the name, you have to scroll down every time to go back to where

Re: open dialog preview question/bug

2001-01-30 Thread Oliver Rapp
On 30 Jan 2001 - 11:00 Roel Vanhout wrote: When opening a file, selecting it in the open dialog and clicking 'generate preview', the file is not selected any more. So if you have a directory with a lot of files and you are looking for a specific one but don't know the name, you have to

Re: animation question

2001-01-30 Thread kate
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Chuck Egner wrote: Another useful "trick" is to insert another layer (set to transparent) ontop of the one you want to manipulate and then make your changes and adjust the transparency on the floating selection with the layers and transp. slider before you anchor to the

Re: animation question

2001-01-29 Thread George Crary
Kate McMillan wrote: Very simple. http://www.katewerk.com/images/pissoff3_animate.gif Question is this - I would like to add some more color, now that my first little experiment is a success. But I cannot seem to figure out how to go back into the layers to bring them up for editing? I must

Re: animation question

2001-01-29 Thread kate
OK - so it wasn't me, after all. Thanks. I'll know next time. :) On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, George Crary wrote: Kate McMillan wrote: Very simple. http://www.katewerk.com/images/pissoff3_animate.gif Question is this - I would like to add some more color, now that my first little experiment

Re: animation question

2001-01-29 Thread Jeff Trefftzs
Kate - I just loaded your animated gif into the Gimp (1.2). All the layers are there. Just look at the Layers Channels dialog box. You can get at each layer individually. To view a single layer, turn off (by clicking) the eye icon next to the layers you *don't* wish to see. Click on the

Re: animation question

2001-01-29 Thread Jakub Steiner
On 28 Jan 2001 19:32:33 -0500, Kate McMillan wrote: Question is this - I would like to add some more color, now that my first little experiment is a success. But I cannot seem to figure out how to go back into the layers to bring them up for editing? The best thing to do for your future

Re: animation question

2001-01-29 Thread kate
AHA! That's what the eyeballs are for Thankyou - I'll give it a shot later tonite. On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Jeff Trefftzs wrote: Kate - I just loaded your animated gif into the Gimp (1.2). All the layers are there. Just look at the Layers Channels dialog box. You can get at each

Re: animation question

2001-01-28 Thread VosSedai
Hi the way I add color to any indexed image afterwards is to convert it back to RGB add the color then re-index :) dont know if its right but it works for me... hope it helps luck, Vossedai "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot

Another Scheme question

2000-12-13 Thread Bela Balogh
Hi! Where can I find scheme-functions those are not in the DB-Browser (for example mathematical functions) ? Thanks Bela

Re: Another Scheme question

2000-12-13 Thread George Crary
Bela Balogh wrote: Where can I find scheme-functions those are not in the DB-Browser (for example mathematical functions) ? Do you mean stuff like this? - http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/paradigms_lectures/index_scheme.html

Re: Another Scheme question

2000-12-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i think he wants to know which functions are included and which are not. the only solution i found is to check the source code of the script-fu module included with the source distribution of gimp. siod itself is not a complete implementation of scheme. you can begin by checking the

Scheme + opendir question

2000-12-09 Thread Piotr K. Isajew
Hi, I would like to make a Scheme script, that displays all files in specified directory. I tried something like: (define (script-fu-main a_arg) (let* ( (dir (opendir a_arg)) (dirent ()) ) (while set! dirent (readdir dir) (print dirent) )

A Scheme question

2000-12-01 Thread Bela Balogh
Hi! I'm Bela and I have a (perhabhs) simple problem with using the Scheme language. I want to create a special picture that displays the f(x, y) = sin(x^2 + y^2) function with grayscale colors. The x and y is the x and y coordinate of a pixel on the image. I calculate the value of this function

Perl Server question

2000-11-30 Thread Chetan Dhavse
HI!!! I have using perl for scripting and gimp 1.1.04, with no problems. Recently I upgraded Gimp to 1.1.29 and all my perl-gimp programs went for a toss,I am lost as no errors are thrown at me.(Starting gimp or running perl script) I suspect, perl server which comes along with gimp is the

Re: Newbie question: Transparent gradient

2000-11-14 Thread D. R. Evans
Thanks to all who replied. I finally got it to work. The missing piece of information in everything that I had been trying is that, unlike any other GUI-based program I have ever used, it seems that there are Gimp functions that one cannot find by wandering through the menus! The trick was to

Re: Newbie question: Transparent gradient

2000-11-13 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2000-11-13 at 1629.40 -0700): I have a small layer sitting on top of the stack. I would like to "fade" the image contained in that layer, left to right, so that one side (the right side) is completely opaque and the other side (the, er, left side, I guess) is completely

Re: Newbie question: Transparent gradient

2000-11-13 Thread Seth Burgess
after I've figured it out for myself. Anyway, here's the simple question: I have a small layer sitting on top of the stack. I would like to "fade" the image contained in that layer, left to right, so that one side (the right side) is completely opaque and the other side (the

Font Question

2000-10-15 Thread Thomas Poe
. Remarkably, when I start The Gimp, the original list of fonts remains unscathed, usable, and it's as if I was taking a nap. So, - - - my question is: To check what the heck is going on, is there a recipe to follow that would let me locate the list and identify the directory it sits in, that pops

Re: Font Question

2000-10-15 Thread Carol Spears
remains unscathed, usable, and it's as if I was taking a nap. So, - - - my question is: To check what the heck is going on, is there a recipe to follow that would let me locate the list and identify the directory it sits in, that pops up when I click on the T tool, and then click on the image

Re: Widget display problems and a question...

2000-10-09 Thread Carol Spears
Also, this may sound like another obvious problem, but how do you draw a hollow or fill circle/box? It seems like you need two more buttons like the selection versions, except something that will draw a box. I know how to draw a line, but there is no meta key combination for the pencil tool

Re: Newbie question: Banners

2000-10-07 Thread clemensF
Mark Drummond: I want to make a banner, say 640 pixels wide by 64 pixels high. I have a 64x64 pixel image that I want copied into that banner 10 times. Is there a simple way of doing this besides cutpaste? this function is called tiling, like lining up tile after tile... clemens

Newbie question: Banners

2000-10-06 Thread Mark Drummond
Here's what I think should be a quicky ... (I have no graphic design experience, and have used the GIMP mostly just for format covnersions). I want to make a banner, say 640 pixels wide by 64 pixels high. I have a 64x64 pixel image that I want copied into that banner 10 times. Is there a simple

Simple jpg question

2000-09-21 Thread Rick Rosinski
multiple times with .75 would continuously degrade the image. I figured that I would wait until all of my modifications are done for each image before I save the final image to .80 quality. But, I am finding that my disk space is drastically declining. My question is: Can I crop the images

Re: Simple jpg question

2000-09-21 Thread Jon Winters
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Rick Rosinski wrote: My question is: Can I crop the images into separate files, saving them at .80 quality, then do modifications and save them again (into a separate file *.modified.jpg) at .80 quality without loosing quality after each save? Hi, I'm about

Re: Newbie question.

2000-09-18 Thread Andrew J Fortune
erested. It is the approximate equivalent of the latest developers version of the GIMP. Enjoy it, and good luck ! regards, Andrew - Original Message - From: "William D. Tallman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 1:18 PM Subject: Newbie quest

Re: Newbie question.

2000-09-18 Thread Rebecca Jean Pedersen
Get a newer version. Although developer versions, they are still pretty much stable and the only way to get the things included in grokking. welcome to the wonderful world of GIMP!

Newbie question.

2000-09-17 Thread William D. Tallman
I'm new to the Penguin, although not to UNIX, and am fascinated by The Gimp! Downloaded "Grokking the Gimp", which seems worthwhile, and right away saw two screenshots I've not seen before and don't know how to get at. I'm running Mandrake 7.1, which installed Gimp 1.0.4, and the Gimp site

real newbie question.

2000-09-11 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
Hi, I've just subscribed to the list in the hope of learning more about how to use this marvelous piece of software. My question isa real newbie on. I have the new Gimp v1.1.24 and was wondering how do you draw straight lines. The normal Alt+click doesn't work. Also is there a cicle drawing

Re: real newbie question.

2000-09-11 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
Hi, Shouldn't you have read: http://www.gimp.org/~sjburges/straightline/straightline.html Use the eclipse tool for circles, but hold either SHIFT, CTRL or ALT - I can't remember which. They have different functions. Jonathan Paton --

Re: real newbie question.

2000-09-11 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
Hi, Opps, I forget there isn't an elipse tool but an elipse select tool. Use the elipse section tool to make the circle, invert (or fill), shrink selection, invert (or fill). Worth learning how to use layers, many effects require use of it. Jonathan Paton --

Re: real newbie question.

2000-09-11 Thread Michael
Hi! My question isa real newbie on. I have the new Gimp v1.1.24 and was wondering how do you draw straight lines. The normal Alt+click doesn't work. Here you've got several possibilities: 1. select the pencil/brush tool and draw a point, then hold the shift key and move the mouse

Re: real newbie question.

2000-09-11 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
Hi Thanks for all the help (and so soon). I was holding down the mouse key and trying to drag a staight line, but thanks to you all I now know better 8^) The eclipse tool with the shift key does indeed produce a circle though it is only a selection and when I have it positioned correctly and

Re: real newbie question.

2000-09-11 Thread Amy
http://www.gimp.org/~sjburges/straightline/straightline.html On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: Hi, I've just subscribed to the list in the hope of learning more about how to use this marvelous piece of software. My question isa real newbie on. I have the new Gimp v1.1.24

A question about TIFF's comment area

2000-08-14 Thread kuppo
Hi, You know TIFF format has a comment area. So you can write your comments in this area at the time of saving a image by TIFF format. I'd like to write down a history of processing applied to the image onto this comment area automatically or semiautomatically . If you know any way of doing this

Re: A question about TIFF's comment area

2000-08-14 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 01:17:49PM +0900, kuppo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know TIFF format has a comment area. So you can write your comments in this area at the time of saving a image by TIFF format. If you know any way of doing this or similar things, please let me The tiff plug-in saves

Re: Effect question

2000-07-25 Thread Ian Boreham
am not trying to berate you here, but I would like to encourage people to provide more details, metaphors or half-baked attempts at what they are trying to do, when they ask how-to questions. Otherwise, the question gets misinterpreted six ways by the people who even bothered trying to understand

Re: Effect question

2000-07-25 Thread paul
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 16:37:23 +1000, Ian Boreham said: - Otherwise, the question gets misinterpreted six ways by the people who even - bothered trying to understand it, and the asker only gets the answer they - were looking for a week later. - - When you say "curving in" and &q

Re: Newbie Developer's Question

2000-07-17 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
I use the console to see what the command does to the image/layer...if it works, I then cut-n-paste into emacs. if not, then i just do an undo :-) Thanks, I will give it a try. :] GSR

RE: Newbie Developer's Question

2000-07-17 Thread Andrew J Fortune
development environment ? thanks, Andrew -Original Message- From: Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 18 July 2000 1:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbie Developer's Question I use the console to see what the command does to the image/layer

Re: Newbie Developer's Question

2000-07-17 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, The console is nice to debug them, but not to do full script development (IMO). I doubt anybody uses it beyond testing some lines of code or fix something, like erasing "hang" images or layers (does anybody do more than that? am I the "rare"?). I use the console to see what the command

Re: Font question (newbie)

2000-05-15 Thread Data Wizard
Hernandez wrote: Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 10:53:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Javier Hernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Per Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: GIMP User List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Font question (newbie) On Sun, 14 May 2000, Per Pettersson wrote: I have a newbie font question which I like

Font question (newbie)

2000-05-14 Thread Per Pettersson
Hi all! I have a newbie font question which I like to have solved. I want to install windos fonts (.ttf or something) but I havent figured it out yet by myself how to do that. I sincerely hope that someone knows this out there. Best regards, Per

Re: Font question (newbie)

2000-05-14 Thread Alper Ersoy
3. Don't add a gizillion fonts right away. My question: Is there any way to create fonts? Yes, there are a few ways to create fonts. But first of all you should know what kind of fonts they'll be. AFAIK we don't have any editors for TrueType fonts, only for bdf fonts. I use xmbdfed, and it's p

Re: Font question (newbie)

2000-05-14 Thread Carol Spears
Per Pettersson wrote: http://fonts.linuxpower.org/help.php3?title=Help I tried every eh, group of instructions I could find. It was this "How-To" that finally did the job. I would add to these instructions, under INSTALLING NEW FONTS: 3. Don't add a gizillion fonts right away. M

Re: My Mac font question

2000-03-13 Thread Uwe Koloska
You wrote on Mon, 13 Mär 2000: Uwe Koloska wrote: AFAIK, there is a package called macutils, providing just the possibility to extract Mac .hqx and .bin files. But I have lost any URL. Is there something to extract .sit archives as well? Send me a copy of the mac archive. Tomorrow from

Re: My Mac font question

2000-03-12 Thread Uwe Koloska
You wrote on Fre, 10 Mär 2000: Wow-- This turned into a lively discussion, including a couple of responses direct to me. Please direct interesting responses to the List, too. So we all can participate in this very interesting discussion. I tried to install some software to be able accessing my

Re: My Mac font question

2000-03-12 Thread Jon Winters
Uwe Koloska wrote: AFAIK, there is a package called macutils, providing just the possibility to extract Mac .hqx and .bin files. But I have lost any URL. Is there something to extract .sit archives as well? Send me a copy of the mac archive. Tomorrow from work I'll download stuffit

My Mac font question

2000-03-10 Thread Jim Clark
Wow-- This turned into a lively discussion, including a couple of responses direct to me. Here's the situation. On: http://www.fontsite.com/Pages/FFDownloads.html There's a really neat font that gives a very clear display at 7 point. I'd like it very much. But here's what it says: Mini 7 was

question about gimp menu

2000-02-25 Thread Alexey Chugaenko
Hi, all! I have one question about using gimp: When I open menu wich don't fit into screen size (e.g. extension list from load/save dialogue), I can't list it. Can anyone say me how to scroll this menues or covert these in two-columns style? Thanks in advance Alex = // Only

Re: question about gimp menu

2000-02-25 Thread nigelp
Howdy I find that clicking a second time repositions the menu into a better viewing position. Nigel From: Alexey Chugaenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 05:59:46 -0800 (PST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: question about gimp menu Hi, all! I have one question about using gimp

Newbie GIMP compile/install question

1999-01-03 Thread Thomas Fischer
re, with success. My question is: how do I make "make" clear where to look for them? Things I tried and wich didn't work: - copying all the required files to /lib/X11 (since in the source they are all referred to as "X11/foo.h") - adding the path to the X sources to ld.so.