Today I downloaded and installed the FontBase (FB) application. It is a Font manager.
The idea behind how this application works is that the user adds fonts to the application and controls the activation and deactivation of the fonts they want to use, without the need to load all the fonts even if they will not be used.
My problem is that during use FontBase behaves differently: 1- It loads all the fonts that have been added to the application, regardless of whether they have been activated or not. 2- It does not download all these fonts. Even if the application is turned off, the fonts remain available for use in GIMP.
After installing FontBase, GIMP is informed via Edit - Preferences - Folders - Fonts of the FB application path, which in my case is: C:\Users\Users\FontBase
Possibly the inclusion of the path added above is what causes the Fonts to be loaded regardless of whether they have been activated or not (here is my assumption). However, as far as I know, this is the correct way to proceed, telling GIMP where to access the fonts on FB)
Considering the behavior of the FB app as described in 1 and 2, there is no point in using it as it does not serve its purposes.
But I suspect this problem is only happening to me/my version of GIMP.
Maybe some incompatibility with the portable version?
Does anyone here use this app and can help me?
The following information is available on the APP website:
"All the fonts are added to FontBase in an inactive state. To activate a font, you need to click on the circle at the left side of the font's name."
"All the fonts activated in FontBase are active while FontBase is open. When you close the app, all the fonts are deactivated: this way you can easily deactivate all the fonts you have used during your work"
As I explained. Nothing stated above happens in my case.
Hi, I am new to these forums and apologize if this is not the right place.
My question is, how can I make a dashed line along a curved path or something similar, and still be able to customize the spacing?
To make it clearer: I am making a map, and on this map there are going to be several dashed lines with the same size (80x25 px). However the spacing between the dashed lines is something I want to vary, so that certain places on the maps have large gaps between the dashed lines and others have close spaces between the dashed lines. Additionally I want to make the dashed lines follow smoother curves to make them prettier, as it looks wrong with straight lines.
What I've tried so far:
- Stroke path - stroke line using a line style (This works great, but I have problems varying the gaps between the dashed lines. If i set to line length to squares, I cant have more than 3 squares as spacing. This works fine some places, but I need larger spacings other places)
-Drawing the dashed lines by hand, this takes ages and is easy to mess up, and my attempts have looked awful
-using shift click with the correct angel setting and spacing to create dashed lines. The problem here is it looks too straight and therefore not good.
-Using dynamic brush "Track Direction", this doesnt work. It is simply way too innaccurate
I have a general technical question: is it possible that a photo, processed in "grayscale" mode, then exported in jpeg format, is unreadable afterwards?
Indeed, a person to whom I sent a photo, informs me that his computer can not open it, and tells him: "invalid ICC profile". Does the jpeg embed the ICC profile? or does the problem come from processing in "grayscale" mode and not in RGB?
According to the official document, If you check the "Preference > Color Management > Filter Dialog > Show Advanced color options", you can access the advanced color option in Filter dialog. However, I was not able to find any difference between the enabled this option and not.
Would you give me a some example of Filter dialog and how this option works?
Gimp itself works fine, but using Rawtherapee plugin in opening DNG pic works not correctly. Plugin open yes, but it gives a message "Gimp_Plugin_info" (ok to dismiss) and after that the plugin looks odd, most graphical elements are replaced by simple black squares end so on. Slide controllers work and I can adjust pic partially. After closing I can see pic nicely in Gimp.
Has anyone else experienced something like this? What is the cure? In my other machine (laptop) everything work nicely. Same software version, but different hardware.
Using the Clone tool the Ctl key is not detected by Gimp ( the Ctl Key is working elsewere.) this is rendering Gimp unusable un Ubuntu. The problem seems to be known for a long time, I do not find any workaround. Alt Caps lock, Ctl Alt do not work more.
I am creating a tartan - but the online Tartan Designer shows the colours by different horizontal and vertical interwoven coloured "threads".
While the "shade" created by these lines is realistic, I want the "interwoven" colours to show as a "simple" "flat" shade.
Is it possible to "blend" the "threaded" colours into a single colour shade?
Hello all. I have Google'd this issue and have seen numerous posts in various forums with no real resolution. I am using Gimp v2.10.30 on a Windows 11 PC. The problem I am having and cannot seem to resolve is that upon printing, Gimp is reverting larger format documents to letter size. Here are the steps I am taking in the current example I am dealing with.
1. Create a new document that is 24" x 36" to be printed to an Epson SC-F570, large format sublimation printer.
2. Add all images to blank document.
3. In "Page Setup", change "Size" to "User-Defined" and "Source" to "Roll Paper" (as needed for printer in question).
4. Click "Print", bringing up the Gimp print dialogue.
5. Click "More settings" to launch the printer specific settings dialogue.
6. Change "Document Size" to "User-Defined" and "Output Size" to 24" x 36".
7. Click "OK" on printer specific dialogue.
8. Click "Print" on Gimp print dialogue, which brings up the printer specific print preview.
9. Document size reverted to 8.5" x 11"
I have done this over and over again. Regardless of how many ways I confirm the intended document and print size to be 24" x 36", once I get to the last step where I would hit "Print" for the final time to actually start printing, the document size is changed back to 8.5" x 11". This does not happen with other graphics software using the same process, computer and printer. This ONLY happens using Gimp. Has anyone experienced this and actually resolved it? Pulling what's left of my hair out trying to get Gimp to print larger formats properly. Thank you so much for any input.
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