The two functions, gimp_file_load_layer and layers, which I located in my local installation's Xtns browser are not found by perl-gimp on the server. It says, " function/macro "gimp_file_load_layers" not found in
Gimp"

Should I give up or is there a reason it might be failing? (These are the only missing functions so far!)

GIMP version 2.2.13 Gimp.pm 2.0

Here is how i use it:

use Gimp qw(:auto );\\sub layer{ my $img = gimp_file_load(RUN_NONINTERACTIVE, $product, $product); my $lay = gimp_file_load_layers(RUN_NONINTERACTIVE, $img, $artist); gimp_layer_resize_to_image_size($lay); };

Gimp::on_net(\&layer);

exit main();

In by browser it says gimp-file-load-layers , gimp-file-load , and gimp-layer-resize-to-image-size

Do you really have those two \\ in there?

Owen

Owen wrote:

The two functions, gimp_file_load_layer and layers, which I located in my local installation's Xtns browser are not found by perl-gimp on the server. It says, " function/macro "gimp_file_load_layers" not found in
Gimp"

Should I give up or is there a reason it might be failing? (These are the only missing functions so far!)

GIMP version 2.2.13 Gimp.pm 2.0

Here is how i use it:

use Gimp qw(:auto );\\sub layer{ my $img = gimp_file_load(RUN_NONINTERACTIVE, $product, $product); my $lay = gimp_file_load_layers(RUN_NONINTERACTIVE, $img, $artist); gimp_layer_resize_to_image_size($lay); };

Gimp::on_net(\&layer);

exit main();

In by browser it says gimp-file-load-layers , gimp-file-load , and gimp-layer-resize-to-image-size

Not sure what you mean - that I should be using dashes? I understand, you always replace those with underscores as dash is not a valid character for function names.

Do you really have those two \\ in there

LOL... Of course not! Happened as a result of copy/paste/something for the email itself!. :-)

Kate Yoak wrote:

The two functions, gimp_file_load_layer and layers, which I located in my local installation's Xtns browser are not found by perl-gimp on the server. It says, " function/macro "gimp_file_load_layers" not found in Gimp"

[snip]

GIMP version 2.2.13

The reason you are having a problem is because you are using a very old version of GIMP. GIMP 2.2 is no longer supported. The file load operations you are asking were added in the 2.4 version of GIMP.

The reason you are having a problem is because you are using a very old version of GIMP. GIMP 2.2 is no longer supported. The file load operations you are asking were added in the 2.4 version of GIMP.

Sigh. CentOS rpm is 2.2. Never even occurred to me to check! Kind of like never occurred to me (until everything broke) that `cpan install Gimp` gets you a version, which was superceded in 2004! Has anyone noticed the Gimp disaster on CPAN I am referring to?

Oh well. The main thing is: Gimp exists and it's so nice, the pain is worth it!

Kate T. Yoak wrote:

The reason you are having a problem is because you are using a very old version of GIMP. GIMP 2.2 is no longer supported. The file load operations you
are asking were added in the 2.4 version of GIMP.

Sigh. CentOS rpm is 2.2. Never even occurred to me to check! Kind of like never occurred to me (until everything broke) that `cpan install Gimp` gets you a version, which was superceded in 2004! Has anyone noticed the Gimp disaster on CPAN I am referring to?

Oh well. The main thing is: Gimp exists and it's so nice, the pain is worth it!

Bigger sigh. :-) Upgrading to 2.4 on CentOS is a feat. A lot of non-supported rpms to track down. Too scary. :-) No loading layers for me! They say, CentOS 6 is expected to come with gimp 2.4. There is hoping!

Kate T. Yoak wrote:

Bigger sigh. :-) Upgrading to 2.4 on CentOS is a feat. A lot of non-supported rpms to track down. Too scary. :-) No loading layers for me! They say, CentOS 6 is expected to come with gimp 2.4. There is hoping!

If CentOS 6 is only planning on making GIMP 2.4 available you will still have an old version of GIMP. You should ask them to include a current release of GIMP. If they don't want to do that, it might be worth changing to distro that provides more current versions of software.

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Kevin Cozens wrote:

If CentOS 6 is only planning on making GIMP 2.4 available you will still have an old version of GIMP.

Gimp 2.6 is less than a year old and still somewhat buggy. I can see people trying to maintain a stable platform not wanting to jump to it yet. Especially for a desktop app in what is primarily a server distro. Also, CentOS is designed to track Red Hat, so it's probably the RH folks making the call.

You should ask them to include a current release of GIMP. If they don't want to do that, it might be worth changing to distro that provides more current versions of software.

Perhaps, but reinstalling Linux is a lot scarier than upgrading a few packages or even upgrading to a new version of the same distro.

If you're trying to do programmed image manipulation from a web app, the Gimp might not be the best choice. Have you considered alternatives? Perhaps ImageMagick?

Thanks, Mark, for a thoughtful reply. You are right about CentOS. Those who want latest-and-greatest use Fedora. CentOS is designed for stability. I read that somewhere. :-)

A couple of missing functions didn't offend me and I got around them. The saving to .psd issue - well, that's more irritating - but I was able to get people who need to use the output to install Gimp. The primary output I am generating is, of course, the actual image files, Jpegs.

If you're trying to do programmed image manipulation from a web app, the Gimp might not be the best choice. Have you considered alternatives? Perhaps ImageMagick?

Yes, I've been using ImageMagick for a long time.

In this particular case, I was excited to try out Gimp because it enables me to manipulate psd files & layers. What I wound up coming up with is so beautiful, it hurts. I am truly grateful for the existence of Gimp API in the end. I am tempted to pollute the list by telling you all about the neat idea. But that's what happens as you get wiser - you learn to resist your temptations. Yes, even on the internet!

Thanks everyone again! Especially Mark. He gets a ribbon for named pipes!

Hi,

On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 11:44 -0500, Mark J. Reed wrote:

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Kevin Cozens wrote:

If CentOS 6 is only planning on making GIMP 2.4 available you will still have an old version of GIMP.

Gimp 2.6 is less than a year old and still somewhat buggy. I can see people trying to maintain a stable platform not wanting to jump to it yet.

As far as we know GIMP 2.6.4 has less known bugs than any GIMP 2.4.x release. Perhaps you back up your point by pointing out particular bugs in GIMP 2.6.4 that are not in GIMP 2.4 ?

Sven

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Sven Neumann wrote:

As far as we know GIMP 2.6.4 has less known bugs than any GIMP 2.4.x release.

As far as you know, sure. There hasn't been as much time to find bugs in 2.6.4 as there has been to find bugs in 2.4.x. I apologize for overstating; I should have said "still potentially buggy" instead of "still somewhat buggy". I love 2.6; I like the UI redesign; upgrading Gimp was what motivated me to upgrade my Ubuntu installation. But it does represent a significant change from 2.4, so I think caution is understandable at this stage. That's all I was saying. I did not intend to cast aspersions on the 2.6 line.