On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 19:46 +0200, baca wrote:

I've been using Gimp since 2.6 and had previously used PS CS2 That version had the option to select a single orw or column (from the 'Select' menu).
I rarely had the need for this, but I'm now working on a project that could use that feature, and Gimp doesn't seem to have it . . . :>( Checked out the gimp plugin site and Googlesearched it, but to no avail. Can anybody point me to a solution? - I tried selecting it with the available selection tools, but I'm not having any success with a large image. If it matters, I'm running 2.8.4 on a Win7-64bit installation. Thanks in advance, baca

You can easily make yourself a script that does a rectangle select on the "extents" of a guide, so the workflow would be: place guide, run script, remove guide.

--mitch

Hi,

New to list, but been using GIMP for awhile... got a new printer, an HP Officejet 8600 pro plus. Works nicely (so far) in Linux Debian Squeeze, but do dual boot to Windows XP (sp3)... & been trying to print a 4" x 6" color photo, no matter the settings, I get a "paper mismatch" error. Even called HP support... but while waiting for the tech support person to do some research on this problem... */was/* able to print said image in Ifranview (a free windows graphic program)... I apparently don't have the Windows Paint program... which the tech person wanted me to try).

So apparently there may be a bug in that version (2.8) of GIMP, ported to Windows. I am using GIMP 2.6.10, in Linux, so I do not really know if this is a version particular problem... or just a Windows platform problem... (I've considered updating, building 2.8 on Linux, but looks like one is supposed uninstall the old version, not sure if this is really necessary; I've had problems uninstalling software before in Linux... (/sometimes takes out more than one wants; like the desktop/!), but better safe than sorry; advise welcome).

Thanks much for any help in resolving these problems.

Henry

On 30.04.13 at 8:07 PM Michael Natterer wrote:

You can easily make yourself a script that does a rectangle select on the "extents" of a guide, so the workflow would be: place guide, run script, remove guide.

That sounds quite easy and straightforward. Does it work for you? I tried to do this manually and failed. As soon as I activated another tool, the selection was destroyed. Then I added a horizontal or vertical path and made a selection out of it - and that failed too :-(

That worked for me: 1. Activate quickmask (click the little rectangle in the lower left corner of the canvas or press Q)
2. Set foreground color to white
3. From the toolbox choose the Pencil tool. As Brush use '1. Pixel' and set brush size to 1 px.
4. Paint a vertical or horizontal line by clicking its start and end point while pressing Shift+Strg (on Mac: Shift+Cmd). 5. Deactivate quickmask (like in step 1).

Kind regards,

Sven

On 30.04.13 at 9:10 PM scl wrote:

On 30.04.13 at 8:07 PM Michael Natterer wrote:

You can easily make yourself a script that does a rectangle select on the "extents" of a guide, so the workflow would be: place guide, run script, remove guide.

That sounds quite easy and straightforward. Does it work for you? I tried to do this manually and failed. As soon as I activated another tool, the selection was destroyed. Then I added a horizontal or vertical path and made a selection out of it - and that failed too :-(

After discussing it on IRC there is a quite easy solution:

1. Drag a guide onto the image, 2. from the toolbox choose the Rectangle selection tool, 3. in its tool options set 'Fixed height'=1 px for a row respectively 'Fixed width'=1 px for a column,
4. stretch a rectangular selection along the guide from step 1.

The reason why it failed in my first posting is that a guide has a width resp. height of 0 px and selections of 0 px width or height don't make much sense.

Kind regards,

Sven

Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:57:10 -0400 From: hwpeters@jamadots.com
To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org
Subject: [Gimp-user] Problem printing in Windows XP (sp3) w/ HP printer.

Hi,

New to list, but been using GIMP for awhile... got a new printer, an HP Officejet 8600 pro plus. Works nicely (so far) in Linux Debian Squeeze, but do dual boot to Windows XP (sp3)... & been trying to print a 4" x 6" color photo, no matter the settings, I get a "paper mismatch" error. Even called HP support... but while waiting for the tech support person to do some research on this problem... was able to print said image in Ifranview (a free windows graphic program)... I apparently don't have the Windows Paint program... which the tech person wanted me to try).

So apparently there may be a bug in that version (2.8) of GIMP, ported to Windows. I am using GIMP 2.6.10, in Linux, so I do not really know if this is a version particular problem... or just a Windows platform problem... (I've considered updating, building 2.8 on Linux, but looks like one is supposed uninstall the old version, not sure if this is really necessary; I've had problems uninstalling software before in Linux... (sometimes takes out more than one wants; like the desktop!), but better safe than sorry; advise welcome).

Thanks much for any help in resolving these problems.

Henry

Have you already checked GIMP's paper/document size? (File > Page Setup).

-- Stratadrake
strata_ranger@hotmail.com
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Numbers may not lie, but neither do they tell the whole truth.


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On 04/30/2013 08:15 PM, Richard Gitschlag wrote:

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:57:10 -0400 From: hwpeters@jamadots.com
To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org
Subject: [Gimp-user] Problem printing in Windows XP (sp3) w/ HP printer.

Hi,

New to list, but been using GIMP for awhile... got a new printer, an HP Officejet 8600 pro plus. Works nicely (so far) in Linux Debian Squeeze, but do dual boot to Windows XP (sp3)... & been trying to print a 4" x 6" color photo, no matter the settings, I get a "paper mismatch" error. Even called HP support... but while waiting for the tech support person to do some research on this problem... */was/* able to print said image in Ifranview (a free windows graphic program)... I apparently don't have the Windows Paint program... which the tech person wanted me to try).

So apparently there may be a bug in that version (2.8) of GIMP, ported to Windows. I am using GIMP 2.6.10, in Linux, so I do not really know if this is a version particular problem... or just a Windows platform problem... (I've considered updating, building 2.8 on Linux, but looks like one is supposed uninstall the old version, not sure if this is really necessary; I've had problems uninstalling software before in Linux... (/sometimes takes out more than one wants; like the desktop/!), but better safe than sorry; advise welcome).

Thanks much for any help in resolving these problems.

Henry _______________________________________________

Have you already checked GIMP's paper/document size? (File > Page Setup).

-- Stratadrake strata_ranger@hotmail.com
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Thanks for reply.

Short answer: I did... Changed the paper size there, & thru printer set-up/s (from within the program, control panel, HP printer set up, etc.). Nothing worked (i.e., got paper mismatch) in GIMP (Windows). To repeat sonmewhat, printed same parameters fine in Ifranview (Windows).

Henry