Gimp 1.3.23 available
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| Gimp 1.3.23 available | Tor Lillqvist | 29 Nov 11:38 |
| Gimp 1.3.23 available | Tor Lillqvist | 29 Nov 15:57 |
| Gimp 1.3.23 available | Daniel Rogers | 29 Nov 16:50 |
| Gimp 1.3.23 available | Sven Neumann | 01 Dec 00:52 |
| Gimp 1.3.23 available | Tor Lillqvist | 02 Dec 01:04 |
Gimp 1.3.23 available
A couple of small issues noticed after installing Jernej's build of GIMP 1.3.23 for Windows (Thanks!):
- The fontconfic configuration file isn't included. It should be as \etc\fonts\fonts.conf. Without this file no fonts are found for the text tool to use. This is easy to fix, just put the file from my fontconfig-2.2.1.zip there.
- The color proof display filter module isn't included. Building it was a bit of a pain, as the header files in the LCMS ("Little CMS") distribution lcms11.zip (www.littlecms.com) need some editing to be useable. (Also, on my machine there was a much older version of lcms.dll in the Windows System32 folder (presumably put there by some misguided 3rd-party software installer at some point). It wasn't useable anyway, as it didn't provide the cmsCreate_sRGBProfile entry point, so I removed it.)
But anyway, I haven't gotten the color proof display filter to work yet. I get a crash when trying to set a display filter if the cdisplay_proof module is present. Possibly the lcms.dll in the lcms11.zip file isn't suitable as such to be used from GIMP, but will have to be rebuilt from source. Still debugging what's happening... I am a bit confused about how it all hangs together and how this g_type_module stuff works.
- The new wmf plug-in isn't included. Well, this is understandable, as it requires the libwmf library, version 2.8.0 or later, for which there isn't any ready-built Windows distribution. (At least, I couldn't find one.)
I did build the latest libwmf (2.8.1). It required some minor patches to its source. But it's not installation-location-independent (like for instance GTK and GIMP are). It looks for its fonts in a I location fixed at build time. This is not acceptable on Windows. I need to fix that, and submit patches to the libwmf maintainer.
--tml
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Tor Lillqvist writes:
> Possibly the lcms.dll in the lcms11.zip file isn't suitable as such
> to be used from GIMP, but will have to be rebuilt from source.
Yes, that seems to be the case. I don't know the technical reasons, but when I built the lcms DLL from sources (a rather simple ./configure --disable-static && make job), no crash any longer.
Still, as I really don't understand colour management very well, I'll leave it to others to say whether it is useful or not. (In fact I am a bit colourblind, so I have wondered whether it even would make any sense for me to try to use a colour managed workflow for my digital photo workflow at all ;-).)
I'll zip up a runtime and developer package of lcms-1.11, so that Jernej can use it when building the cdisplay_proof module for inclusion in the GIMP binary Win32 distribution. Check www.gimp.org/win32/downloads.html soon.
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Tor Lillqvist wrote:
| Tor Lillqvist writes:
| > Possibly the lcms.dll in the lcms11.zip file isn't suitable as such
| > to be used from GIMP, but will have to be rebuilt from source.
|
| Yes, that seems to be the case. I don't know the technical reasons,
| but when I built the lcms DLL from sources (a rather simple
| ./configure --disable-static && make job), no crash any longer.
|
| Still, as I really don't understand colour management very well, I'll
| leave it to others to say whether it is useful or not. (In fact I am a
| bit colourblind, so I have wondered whether it even would make any
| sense for me to try to use a colour managed workflow for my digital
| photo workflow at all ;-).)
There has been some work done to try and use color matching software to do color matching and proofing for color-blind people. This has been mostly done as accessibility research. I think prepress applications can be found as well.
This is not the original link I found, but it is pretty good: http://www.internettg.org/newsletter/mar99/accessibility_color_challenged.html
This is actually a fairly well researched topic, and I believe the Meyer article was the original source I red on this topic.
As for learning about how to apply color management, "Real World Color Management" by Fraser, Murphy, and Bunting is pretty good, with only a few probably-insignificant for pre-press mistakes.
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Daniel
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Gimp 1.3.23 available
Hi,
Tor Lillqvist writes:
I did build the latest libwmf (2.8.1). It required some minor patches to its source. But it's not installation-location-independent (like for instance GTK and GIMP are). It looks for its fonts in a I location fixed at build time. This is not acceptable on Windows. I need to fix that, and submit patches to the libwmf maintainer.
Perhaps you could also have a quick look at GAP (CVS module gimp-gap). It seems to be experiencing a similar problem:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126000
We will try to start doing GAP prereleases soon. It would be nice if GAP would then be available for Win32 also.
Sven
Gimp 1.3.23 available
Tor Lillqvist writes:
> I did build the latest libwmf (2.8.1). It required some minor patches
> to its source. But it's not installation-location-independent (like
> for instance GTK and GIMP are). It looks for its fonts in a I location
> fixed at build time. This is not acceptable on Windows. I need to fix
> that, and submit patches to the libwmf maintainer.
There is now a port of libwmf (and patched sources) at www.gimp.org/win32/downloads.html (at the bottom of the page).
--tml
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