Thank you for all your replies. I'll try combining different software to reach the scope. Editing in Gimp, vector on inkscape, pubblications and text on scribus. I'll also take a look at Draw.

2012/11/27

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Today's Topics:

1. Gimp 2.8 and Windows 8 (zenashaker) 2. Re: exporting to psd format issue (Guiu Rocafort) 3. Gimp 2.8 and Windows 8 (devvv) 4. Text border (Fabio Colella)
5. Re: Text border (Alexandre Prokoudine) 6. Re: Text border (Owen)
7. Re: Text border (Ofnuts)

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Message: 1 Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:01:27 +0100 From: zenashaker
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Subject: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.8 and Windows 8 Message-ID:
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Ok I just got this computer with windows 8! I've downloaded GIMP 3 times (2 different sources) and each time I click open
(there is no run option) my mouse turns into the little loading symbol and then
nothing happens. It shows up in task manager as running, but nothing comes up at
all. Even when I end task and try to delete the file it doesn't work. Help I really need to use GIMP :(

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Message: 2 Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:45:13 +0100 From: Guiu Rocafort
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I have took a look at the photoshop blend modes and there are a "color burn" and a "linear burn" blend mode. I'm not sure if one of these are equivalent.

The "grain-extract" and the "grain-merge" doesn't seem to have any equivalent in photoshop.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-77eba.html#WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-77e9a

If one of the burn blend modes is equivalent to the one in gimp it should be easy to add support in the psd-export plugin. The grain-extract and grain-merge would require more work i guess..

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Simon Budig wrote:

samlive (forums@gimpusers.com) wrote:

The problem is the costumer want the project in psd format to edit it

with

photoshop so I tried an example to chick if it will export it or not. I designed an example and export it to psd, And I've got error message

that

Blendmodes can't be exported and here is the picture of the error

message

http://img805.imageshack.us/img805/7743/gimp28issue.jpg I've opened the image in photoshop and and I found all layers reset on

Normal

Mode.
So is there any solution for my problem?

Well - apart from the obvious answers (get your customers to use gimp, ask adobe to support the XCF file format) it probably needs changes to the gimp code.

Does photoshop actually support the "burn"/"grain-extract"/"grain-merge" layer modes? I have no idea, but if it does the PSD plugin needs to be changed to support these.

Bye, Simon
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Message: 3 Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:32:23 +0100 From: devvv
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Ok I just got this computer with windows 8! I've downloaded GIMP 3 times (2 different sources) and each time I click open (there is no run option) my mouse turns into the little loading symbol and then nothing happens. It shows up in task manager as running, but nothing comes up at all. Even when I end task and try to delete the file it doesn't work.
Help I really need to use GIMP :(

I just tried it on Windows 8 and it works very fine for me. When you're launching it for the first time it takes pretty long to start up. Did you just
give it some time before killing the task? Try to delete the user folder ".gimp-2.8" of GIMP (found in c:\Users\\.gimp-2.8 and launch it
again.

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Message: 4 Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:05:43 +0100 From: Fabio Colella
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Subject: [Gimp-user] Text border
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Hello, I create adverts with Gimp for my magazine www.sardegnaannunci.com. A feature that I need would be to create border around text. I reach this target with multiple shade effects or selecing the text using selection by color, then selection->border and the filling it with color on a second level under the text (if I do this in the same level I loose antialias on the text). The problem is that when I want to change the text I have to delete the levels for this, edit the text and then create the effect again. Isn't possible to add a feature or a plugin with wich I can edit the text and the effect together? Or better, a real editor with border an shadow effects?
Like the one there's on Libre Office.

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Message: 5 Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:46:06 +0400 From: Alexandre Prokoudine
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Fabio Colella wrote:

Hello, I create adverts with Gimp for my magazine

www.sardegnaannunci.com .

A feature that I need would be to create border around text. I reach this target with multiple shade effects or selecing the text

using

selection by color, then selection->border and the filling it with color

on

a second level under the text (if I do this in the same level I loose antialias on the text). The problem is that when I want to change the

text I

have to delete the levels for this, edit the text and then create the

effect

again. Isn't possible to add a feature or a plugin with wich I can edit

the

text and the effect together? Or better, a real editor with border an

shadow

effects?

It's in the plans, but don't expect it any time soon.

In the mean time I suggest you try Inkscape or Scribus and play with stroke color and width.

Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Message: 6 Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:04:52 +1100 From: "Owen"
To: "Fabio Colella"
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Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Text border Message-ID:

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Hello, I create adverts with Gimp for my magazine www.sardegnaannunci.com .
A feature that I need would be to create border around text. I reach this target with multiple shade effects or selecing the text using
selection by color, then selection->border and the filling it with

It might be better to do this by selecting the text layer and then in the layers dialog, Alpha to selection

color on
a second level under the text (if I do this in the same level I loose antialias on the text). The problem is that when I want to change the text

You might be better off duplicating the text layer (maybe several times) and adjusting the text to a selection of sizes for each layer. Switch the visibility of the layers on and off as you try things out.

I have to delete the levels for this, edit the text and then create the
effect again. Isn't possible to add a feature or a plugin with wich I can
edit the text and the effect together? Or better, a real editor with border
an shadow effects?
Like the one there's on Libre Office.

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Owen

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Message: 7 Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:23:25 +0100 From: Ofnuts
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On 11/26/2012 02:05 PM, Fabio Colella wrote:

Hello, I create adverts with Gimp for my magazine www.sardegnaannunci.com .
A feature that I need would be to create border around text. I reach this target with multiple shade effects or selecing the text using selection by color, then selection->border and the filling it with color on a second level under the text (if I do this in the same level I loose antialias on the text).

Better method for a very clean result: create a "Path" for the text (right click on text layer, + "Text to path"), then "Edit/Stroke path" with a sufficiently wide line.

The problem is that when I want to change the text I have to delete the levels for this, edit the text and then create the effect again. Isn't possible to add a feature or a plugin with wich I can edit the text and the effect together? Or better, a real editor with border an shadow effects?
Like the one there's on Libre Office.

Not right now, but there is an underlying structure change in Gimp that will make this built-in in the future (it's easy to do in LO because the set of possible transforms is limited).

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