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BTW, I am back. 
In this video I’ll review the “GIMP 2.6 Cookbook” by Juan Manuel Ferreyra. It is available as e-book and “dead tree edition”. The book is filled with dozens of easy to follow recipes (with a few glitches in them), covering creating graphics, working on photos and doing stuff for web design. There is not much background information in there, you have to be the right learning type to enjoy it. (I got a free e-book for review.)
To test the book I “cooked” the recipe for making a rubber stamp. It worked out quite well. On the way I found a filter that I had never seen before.
Finally I show how much the print dialogue in GIMP 2.7 has improved since 2.6. A lot of usability thoughts have gone in there.
The video filesize is too large – I am working on shrinking i further. But I wanted to get the show out.
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Good to have a show again.
Is there a reason you didn’t use Evince to read the cookbook?
The problem of the file-jpeg plugin sounds familiar. I don’t really use jpeg so I never bothered but it seems to be fixed by now.
Rolf,
Perhaps you don’t think that this show was one if your better ones but for me it was great. There were a number of times when a light bulb lit up over my head and I said to myself, “Hey, I didn’t know that!”. Thank you very much.
Here’s a TOC
http://meetthegimp.org/episode-162-rubber-stamped/
Episode 162: Rubber Stamped!
00:24 Welcome
01:30 Worldlabel.com competition
02:10 GIMP 2.6 Cookbook
04:15 Table of contents
06:10 Creating rubber stamp text – read the recipe
07:55 Following the recipe:
08:10 – Create a new image and create the text
09:42 – Create the surround using the selection tool and stroking the selection
12:00 Oops need to re-build GIMP
12:55 After the GIMP re-build:
13:17 – Use the Noise – Slur filter to randomly roughen the stamp
14:30 – Rotate the layers
15:10 Tidy up by flattening, and auto-cropping
17:55 Printing with GIMP 2.7
22:12 The End
I’d certainly recommend an episode including discussion about resolutions as it seems to be a perennial cause of confusion and it would be good to be able to point the confused to a suitable episode. That said, Episode 24 seems to do the job
@Kevin Thank you for (again) making the TOC!
#26 was the episode about resolutions. I just viewed it again and it is still valid. But I think this can be expanded to include printer technology (my printer has a resolution of 9.600 x 2.400 dpi – why, if there is no visible difference between 300 and 600 dpi except for a hawk with reading glasses?) I know part of the answer, but will research the rest.
@nachbarnebenan I use acroread usually because I get sometimes files that don’t work with evince. But I’ll give it a chance again. Gimp balked because some of the libraries were not copied from the backup. Found that after I had recompiled all the stuff…. But now I have again a brand new version.
@bob: thanks for the thumbs up!
@Rolf
Ok, it seems to be that evince has in fact problems with some pdf files. As it links to the same libpoppler and libgs as oKular (KDE4 counterpart) I just assumed it’d render the same files correctly.
Is there a problem with the torrent file, or just no seeds? I have only d/l 2 Mb in 2 days normally I get the whole file overnight. I did see 1 seeder and 1 leecher about 20 minutes ago but cannot seem to get a connection.
It is working perfectly here – 300+ KiB/s
But I saw only our server (91.121.140.11) as a seeder and one leecher (92.250.xxx.xxx -Bonn, Germany). That one seems to be fed only by me (78.53.42.xxx) and not by the main server. Strange.
Any ideas except for restarting the bittorrent server?
Well it all seems to be going again, the 92.250.xxx.xxx is me and I am connected to you and downloading, I have not seen the main server at all. Not sure where you get Bonn from, my IP address is registered in Hamburg but the last terrestrial server is in Luxembourg while I am near Leipzig. Most IP trackers assume incorrectly I am in Luxembourg.
@Rolf
“Any ideas except for restarting the bittorrent server?”
A restart might not be such a bad idea. I am seeding but can’t see any leechers nor the main server. There are always some leechs for the big 50 episode packages but rarely for individual episodes.
“while I am near Leipzig. Most IP trackers assume incorrectly I am in Luxembourg.”
Yes, this is annoying, even though the 84.133 range I’m on seems to be less affected by this, thankfully.