Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 16:26:00 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: n9ogk@juno.com (Jack W Doyle) Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Photo manipulation SW Message-ID: <199707122326.QAA01560@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 12 Jul 1997 15:10:12 CDT." <19970712.173319.11958.0.N9OGK@juno.com>
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You don't need motif to build gimp that problem was fixed a while ago. If you like just order the FreeBSD 3.0 -current CDROM from Walnut Creek. It has the source as well as a binary package for gimp--0.99.9.tgz as well as freefonts Cheers, Amancio >From The Desk Of Jack W Doyle : > > The faster your computer is, the slower your life becomes. > > On Sat, 12 Jul 1997 11:14:50 -0700 Amancio Hasty > <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> writes: > > > >Sorry for the double post.... > > > >Graphic image manipulation programs are closely tied to multimedia . > >This is a topic that I was hoping to open up to the group;however, > >in my case I have been tied up with low level stuff. > > > >It is never too late to start talking about cool graphic/image > >manipulation 8) If you visit my sound driver web page , > >you will see a neat looking heading which was generated over the > >net using net-fu: > >http://rah.star-gate.com/HyperNews/get/forums/sound.html > >http://scheme.xcf.berkeley.edu/net-fu/ > > > >So lets open up to the forum by starting to talk about gimp or a cool > >gimp image procedure or filter . Any takers? > > Me. I got a question: I tried to get gimp for freebsd before, only to > find out it needs Motif stuff, which I do not have. Is there any > versions that do not need said stuff? The reason why I asked this is > because at that time I got gimp, I got it from a different source than > berkeley.edu, because berkeley was at that time broken. > > >Why gimp? Cause there are tons of references in the web about gimp and > >in some cases people translate adobe photoshop procedures to gimp. > >Among many things, one of the nice features of gimp is that it has > >a plug-in interface so additionally functionality is easy to > >distribute > >For example , the scsi scanner software package has a gimp plugin > >interface which allows it to import scanned images directly into > >gimp for image manipulation. > > > >Before we get into language wars because gimp's nterpreter is > >scheme . Eric Hernes <rrnet.com> wrote a tcl interface for gimp > >so at the very least we have to available interpreters to > >use;although, > >most available script-fu procedures are written in scheme. > > > > > > Enjoy, > > Amancio > > > > > Another question: How can I get it via text-only email (no internet > account, sorry, too expensive for me - I live in a very very rural area)? > uudecode it and split into floppy-diskette size chunks, where I can cat > the chunks together into one big file? The email is also on the Lose95 > side; that's why I need to be able to get it in floppy-sized chunks :( > > Jack > > > > >
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