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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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