Gimp 2.0

[Ed Gerson]

Is Gimp 2.0 good for printing using Panther and an older model Epson 1280?

Ed

Besides all the user interface improvements, everything works a lot
faster. Rotating an image used to take a couple of seconds. Now
it's instant. Saving a jpeg used to take a second or two. That's
instanteous too.

I don't see any changes that are ground breaking but it looks good
so far. I use gimp all the time, espcially on systems that don't
have the horsepower to run recent versions of Windows but run Linux
without any problems (like my old 400 Mhz laptop).

 

[owenjm]

You do realise that all you've proved is that you know nothing about linux, don't you? Either that or you don't understand half the words you just wrote! Thank you for the silliest troll I've read for a long time

However, you're right in that GIMP could do with better colour management ...

I remember another GNU / Open Source program that many
people called a "toy" a few years back...Linux.

Yeah, and guess what, it STILL is a toy. By year 2004 they've
managed to replicate Windows NT 4.0, only poorly. No component
model, no messaging engine, no role based security, monolithic
kernel, changing interfaces, poor hardware support, ugly UI, user
friendliness issues - the list can go on and on and on. The problem
with linux is that developers don't get any money to develop
software for it, so they do whatever they want instead of whatever
needs to be done. And there's no way in heck they'll care about
some Joe Sixpack who has no clue.

 

[coolpeeks]

Is Gimp 2.0 good for printing using Panther and an older model
Epson 1280?

I don't know about the 1280 but I use it regularly on an 870 and the nice thing about it is that print quality has been improving over time as a result of gimp-print being constantly worked on.

This is one aspect of Open Source (not "freeware") programs which I think does not happen with proprietary systems, which tend to neglect or just drop support for older hardware.

 

[unbound]

Salvador Abreu wrote:

This is one aspect of Open Source (not "freeware") programs which I think does not happen with proprietary systems, which tend to neglect or just drop support for older hardware.

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Too bad that by the time Linux support shows up for lot's of newer gear... it's older gear!

 

[heavyweather]

I use BS-Player, it supports more files than the media player...I can set picture ratios freely, it supports 2channel audio...
There is no better player available...
its free...
Best subtitle support...
supports .srt subtitels for which I have to use a plugin on Mediaplayer...
uses much less resources...
doesn't try to "call home" or communicate ever!!!!!
.....
mediaplayer or realplayer or quicktime are inferior players....

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[TonyK_in_Texas]

Not completely. I would prefer for CM to handled by the OS and lacking the OS then by the application doing the work.

Plug-ins are great and they provide ways to extend functionality beyond the base set of items shipped with a package. Its just I feel CM should be a BASE item.

Just my thoughts.

You may have experience with gimp -- you may even understand its
plug-in philosophy, but you obviously don't subscribe to it.

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[TonyK_in_Texas]

This is one aspect of OS that is good, you are right about that.

Ed Gerson wrote:
...
This is one aspect of Open Source (not "freeware") programs which I
think does not happen with proprietary systems, which tend to
neglect or just drop support for older hardware.

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TonyK
http://www.pbase.com/tonyk

 

[Scott Marso]

Its just I
feel CM should be a BASE item.

I'm happiest when my alternative graphics and photo manipulation software all rely on a common color management software library, and are thereby completely consistent in their effect.

 

[Demetrius (Jim) Latchis]

I installed it in WinXP and it works fine, but I couldn't load the help files. I tried in Lib, Share, Plugins, and nothing but error messages. Without the help files it's no good to me. When they work the bugs out maybe.

 

[TonyK_in_Texas]

Which makes the OS a good place to have it. A plug-in would have to be used by all of the shared applications. Now if the applications made a provision for doing that, then fine, its not an issue.

Its just I
feel CM should be a BASE item.

I'm happiest when my alternative graphics and photo manipulation
software all rely on a common color management software library,
and are thereby completely consistent in their effect.

--
TonyK
http://www.pbase.com/tonyk

 

[heavyweather]

Does it scan currency )))

OMG - This is about the biggest digital imaging news(softwarewise)
in forever!!! For those of you who aren't familiar with it I
highly recommend you check it out. If you don't feal like shelling
out $$$$$$$$ for Photoshop but still need a powerful image editor
this it the way to go. Additionally, the open source nature of the
project will mean lots of plugins and extensions that could give
Adobe a run for their $$$

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[Sheld]

does gimp support photoshop plugins?

I'm using panotools to correct CA for some of my photos. Does gimp support photoshop pluggins? Right now, I'm using paintshoppro, which supports photoshop pluggins, but has some bugs.

• Shel

OMG - This is about the biggest digital imaging news(softwarewise)
in forever!!! For those of you who aren't familiar with it I
highly recommend you check it out. If you don't feal like shelling
out $$$$$$$$ for Photoshop but still need a powerful image editor
this it the way to go. Additionally, the open source nature of the
project will mean lots of plugins and extensions that could give
Adobe a run for their $$$

 

[Brainiac5]

Hello Adrian,

The font problem comes from not installaing the 'windows skin' option with the GTK. That's not the proper name but it's the only option available besides 'core' and 'translations'

To resolve it you can set windows to use a different font 'e.g. Tahoma' for everything in control panel/display/appearence.

Peter, I also installed that other program first, but ran into the
"font" problem. ANyway - the problem that I ran into has no asnwer
on their website.

Since I installed it a couple of times, I figured out how to delete
the undeletable files. Re-boot your computer and it will work. If
you would have looked in the Task Manager you would have seen a few
programs still running in invisible mode... sneaky.

 

[Brainiac5]

They're charging for a distribution. You can still download a free win version or the source code and compile it yourself.

OMG - This is about the biggest digital imaging news(softwarewise)
in forever!!! For those of you who aren't familiar with it I
highly recommend you check it out. If you don't feal like shelling
out $$$$$$$$ for Photoshop but still need a powerful image editor
this it the way to go. Additionally, the open source nature of the
project will mean lots of plugins and extensions that could give
Adobe a run for their $$$

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'The only real currency in this bankrupt world is what we share
with each other when we're being uncool.' -- Cameron Crowe

 

[coolpeeks]

does gimp support photoshop plugins?

AFAIK it does not, but I'm not sure.

I'm using panotools to correct CA for some of my photos. Does gimp
support photoshop pluggins? Right now, I'm using paintshoppro,
which supports photoshop pluggins, but has some bugs.

I've been using panotools as a Gimp plug-in (native, of course) for some time, under Linux. I'm unsure about the Windows version: maybe someone in the panotools mailing list might be of help.
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[raymondl]

Well this 2.0 is so buggy I uninstalled it after 2 very frustrating hours.

It can't possibly give Adobe a run for their $. If anything at all, it will help pushing some open source fans to Photoshop. "Free" is the only good thing about this software.

OMG - This is about the biggest digital imaging news(softwarewise)
in forever!!! For those of you who aren't familiar with it I
highly recommend you check it out. If you don't feal like shelling
out $$$$$$$$ for Photoshop but still need a powerful image editor
this it the way to go. Additionally, the open source nature of the
project will mean lots of plugins and extensions that could give
Adobe a run for their $$$

 

[Scott Marso]

Not a plug-in. A common system library. Perhaps that's what you mean by using the unfortunately loose terminology, "OS".

Its just I
feel CM should be a BASE item.

I'm happiest when my alternative graphics and photo manipulation
software all rely on a common color management software library,
and are thereby completely consistent in their effect.

--
TonyK
http://www.pbase.com/tonyk

 

[Dave Milton]

Or all of this sounds like

Martian to you?

Linux is synonomous with Martian, but I sure wish it wasn't! Just recently got into it again because I tried out GIMP for Win and was so impressed, I went to the effort of reconfiguring my PC to add Fedora. You mentioned 1 week to get remote printing to work? Ha! I can't even get my HP 3650 to print from the PC itself! Also, Fedora won't work my CD burner, but much to my delight, it actually WILL recognize and download from my Canon Powershot A80. THen I can use GIMP till my heart's content. THe G-Photo browser is nice too. However, it would be wonderful if I could burn my photos to CD like I'm accustomed to, not to mention print the occasional one!

By the way, all this meant I had to buy another PC for my wife to use, as my main box is now officially "experimental" and I have a new hobby!

Dave

 

[Ian Yаtes]

Said it couldn't find gtx something or other. so I deleted it!

Ian

 

[TonyK_in_Texas]

That is probably a truer term than my loose OS. But I think it needs to be ONE library that is common to all applications of an OS. If it is the OS maker then fine. If not, then someone with the expertise to be recognized by all the parties and their work used.

Its just I
feel CM should be a BASE item.

I'm happiest when my alternative graphics and photo manipulation
software all rely on a common color management software library,
and are thereby completely consistent in their effect.

--
TonyK
http://www.pbase.com/tonyk

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TonyK
http://www.pbase.com/tonyk