Comments on: Episode 041: Is it a Hammer?

By: ted

ted — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:30:42 +0000

manuee should have a look at Irfanview.

Irfanview can change from almost any known image type to any other.

It also has powerful features for resizing, resampling and lossless jpeg transformations.

Great for those final touches before sending to the web.

By: jaims

jaims — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:38:50 +0000

Good show again. Thanx Rolf and Heathenx.

I’d had already taken a look at several of the heathenx shows by the time this mtg show has been issued, and all I can say is that they are wonderful.

Inkscape is nice and powerful, and I had already recommended to my drawer collegues (you’ll remember having heard of them from me on the cmyk topic). They are using Illustrator (if I’m right) but they are willing to be able to jump to Inkscape. They have found some issues that don’t allow them to do so at the present, maybe one day I’ll try to look for workarounds to solve them…

In the meanwhile, time for me to learn some more about Inkscape.

Once again, thank you very much Rolf and Heathenx

By: manuee

manuee — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:39:21 +0000

I have been following screencasters tutorials for some time now, they do a great job. I’ve learned a lot about the general workflow in inkscape just by watching them do practical excercizes.

I have yet to find someone to explain to me a problem that I think many people in the free software world encounter, and that is making gfx’s for the web. I definetly use inkscape for icons etc, and then try finishing up in GIMP.
But my question is, … how to best tackle the image file size issue? Perhaps this could be a good idea for a screencast discussion between the both of you, would definetly be worth the effort even if you don’t come up with a “windows idiot proof” solution, I’m sure it will sparkle some useful discussion.

Thanks and keep up the excelent work everyone!

By: Bjoern

Bjoern — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:32:05 +0000

Ah, the usual thing, thought so

By: Rolf

Rolf — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:06:54 +0000

@Bjoern: Next step to World Domination!

By: Bjoern

Bjoern — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:49:40 +0000

Alec: tango black and tango white are just the black and white colors from the Tango Project palette[1]. Nothing to worry about.

Rolf, what’s the top secret project you talked about?

[1]: http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Theme_Guidelines

By: Rolf

Rolf — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:43:51 +0000

I got this http://carol.gimp.org/gimp/tutorials/import-svg/Wilber2.svg Wilber from http://carol.gimp.org/gimp/tutorials/import-svg/

Sorry, I forgot to put the file into the zip. I’ll fix that…..

By: Alec Burgess

Alec Burgess — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:33:19 +0000

a little later – that was easy
http://buralex.googlepages.com/gimp_logo_raw.svg
though I don’t think recreating it from a raster image would be as easy as heathenx said

By: Alec Burgess

Alec Burgess — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:19:35 +0000

Rolf – after watching the show …
Question: what is/are “tango black” and “tango white” -googling didn’t make it clear.

You briefly mentioned that an svg file is really an xml file which can be opened with an editor but didn’t mention that it has a built-in editor Shift+Ctrl+X which allows you to click on an element in Inkscape and see (and tweak) the XML that defines it!.

At the beginning of the show heathenx said that you supplied him with a the gimp mascot as an SVG file. AFAICT it wasn’t included in your ZIP file and googling things like “gimp icon wilbur svg” didn’t turn it up. Is it available anywhere? (I guess my next “project” is to try and strip out the orange ball and text from included meetthegimp_logo.svg in the zip to try and get back to *JUST* wilbur.

Another great show!

By: Alec Burgess

Alec Burgess — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:34:28 +0000

@Joel – good guess
@Rolf – got it thx. Now I can follow along with my brand new install of Inkscape

By: Rolf

Rolf — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:07:32 +0000

Yes, I just fixed the typo…..

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:15:53 +0000

@ Alec B. try mtg41.zip (It worked for me)

By: Alec Burgess

Alec Burgess — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:01:14 +0000

Rolf – I’m still getting a 404 on http://meetthegimp.galifree.com/mtg041.zip after several hours? Is it still pending or did something go wrong with your upload?

The one for #39 works.

By: Serge Gielkens

Serge Gielkens — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:12:35 +0000

Aah! Slip of the pen. I meant: IT can now …

By: Serge Gielkens

Serge Gielkens — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:11:07 +0000

Meet the GIMP! is growing fast. I can now even outsource work. Thanks for the show, Rolf, … eh, heathenx

By: Rolf

Rolf — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:00:47 +0000

I am just fixing that. Thanks for the hint.

By: Alec Burgess

Alec Burgess — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:28:55 +0000

Looks like the latest files available on the download site are for Episode 39?
http://meetthegimp.org/download-additional-files/

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Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:00:23 +0000

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