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dynamic text plugin wolligog 06 Apr 18:34
  dynamic text plugin Chris Mohler 06 Apr 18:45
   dynamic text plugin Bill Skaggs 06 Apr 18:58
    dynamic text plugin Alexandre Prokoudine 08 Apr 08:05
     dynamic text plugin Bill Skaggs 08 Apr 15:53
wolligog
2011-04-06 18:34:31 UTC (about 14 years ago)

dynamic text plugin

ok i'm not actually a developer or programme writer but i really need some = help and was hoping someone here might be able to help.

I'm using ubuntu 10:10 maverick meerkat with gimp 2.6, i want to install th= e dynamic text plugin, if i move the script file(.scm) into the gimp2.6 scr= ipt folder i get the option in gimp but when i try and use it i get the fol= lowing message

Execution error for 'Dynamic Text': Error: set!: unbound variable: image

i have been told that the plug in is written in C and i have to install it = using the essential package builder

i was told to enter the code

sudo apt-get install libgimp2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev

then to enter the command - make

when i try 'make' i get the following

make: /usr/bin/gimptool: Command not found gcc -o .obj/charmap.o -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -I. = -DGTK_DISABLE_COMPAT_H -g -c charmap.c In file included from charmap.c:23:
config.h:2: fatal error: gdk/gdkx.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated.
make: *** [.obj/charmap.o] Error 1

someone has suggested the makefile could be modified to sort this out but they didn't know how to modify it so i ended up here. Does anyone know how i can get this plugin to work? i really want to be able to use it because it sounds like it has features i could really do with.

I'm not sure if would help at all but this is everything i have tried and results so far.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1721181

any help would be gratefully appreciated

many thanks

Chris Mohler
2011-04-06 18:45:17 UTC (about 14 years ago)

dynamic text plugin

Try:
sudo apt-get build-dep gimp

Then try running 'make' again.

Chris

Bill Skaggs
2011-04-06 18:58:10 UTC (about 14 years ago)

dynamic text plugin

The dynamic text plugin is many years out of date. It was created as a way of allowing text to be changeable before Gimp's text tool supported that. For the past ten years or so the plugin has been completely useless and therefore hasn't been maintained. I'm not sure whether that explains the errors you see, but whether it does or not you are wasting your time: this plugin doesn't do anything more than Gimp's text tool already does much better.

-- Bill

Alexandre Prokoudine
2011-04-08 08:05:36 UTC (about 14 years ago)

dynamic text plugin

On 4/6/11, Bill Skaggs wrote:

The dynamic text plugin is many years out of date. It was created as a way of allowing text to be changeable before Gimp's text tool supported that. For the past ten years or so the plugin has been completely useless and therefore hasn't been maintained. I'm not sure whether that explains the errors you see, but whether it does or not you are wasting your time: this plugin doesn't do anything more than Gimp's text tool already does much better.

Really? How about rotated text that doesn't suck? :)

Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

Bill Skaggs
2011-04-08 15:53:51 UTC (about 14 years ago)

dynamic text plugin

Well, my memory of the dynamic text plug-in is pretty fuzzy, but in any case the code that is out there seems to date from around 2001, and I doubt that anybody will want to go to the effort of updating it.

-- Bill