Crying for units in GIMP

12-21-2007	#1 (permalink)
minthaka Linux User Join Date: May 2006 Location: Mol, Vojvodina Posts: 489	Crying for units in GIMP Well, in version 2.2 there was a possibility with the Cropping tool to select a rectangle in millimeters. With 2.3 it's gone. Only pixels, am I wrong?. Why, for God's sake???? Its now as stupid as in Photoshop. __________________ "Love never dies - Love never denies, Love never lies - Love desperately cries, Unto the other side, Unto the unborn child in your eyes." (Saviour Machine) Linux Usert#430188

12-22-2007	#2 (permalink)
ozar Super Moderator Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 12,056	I think you might be mistaken. When I look at the cropping options available, I do see pixels as the default option, but clicking on the up/down arrows beside the px gives me lots of options for other position and size measurements, including mm. __________________ oz New Members: * README *

12-22-2007

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minthaka

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ozar

I think you might be mistaken. When I look at the cropping options available, I do see pixels as the default option, but clicking on the up/down arrows beside the px gives me lots of options for other position and size measurements, including mm.

Are you using version GIMP 2.3.14?
Because there are only "Fix" buttons beside the dimensions. Probably this is a developing version. Anyway, I found out another solution: at the bottom of active picture, there's an info line showing the sizes of the actual selection, and here I can select the units. It's not as good as I could do it with panel, but I hope in 2.4 they've fixed this bug. Unfortunately I'll have to move to Mandriva 2008 to use it properly and without losing my system's stability.

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12-22-2007

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ozar

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Quote:

Originally Posted by minthaka

Are using version GIMP 2.3.14?

No, I'm using version 2.4.3

That must be the difference.

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12-22-2007	#5 (permalink)
ozar Super Moderator Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 12,056	Here's what it looks like for me: ImageShack - Hosting :: snapshot5es1.png __________________ oz New Members: * README *

12-26-2007	#6 (permalink)
minthaka Linux User Join Date: May 2006 Location: Mol, Vojvodina Posts: 489	Why, I've installed Ubuntu Studio 7.10 today, together with Gimp 2.4.0-rc3, and there's the same problem: no unit selection with cropping tool! I don't know where to download from the 2.3.4 for Ubuntu or Mandriva. __________________ "Love never dies - Love never denies, Love never lies - Love desperately cries, Unto the other side, Unto the unborn child in your eyes." (Saviour Machine) Linux Usert#430188

12-26-2007	#7 (permalink)
ozar Super Moderator Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 12,056	Don't know if it will help any, but you can get the Gimp 2.4.2 deb file here: Ubuntu Software Search __________________ oz New Members: * README *

12-26-2007	#8 (permalink)
minthaka Linux User Join Date: May 2006 Location: Mol, Vojvodina Posts: 489	Thanks Oz, that helped me! __________________ "Love never dies - Love never denies, Love never lies - Love desperately cries, Unto the other side, Unto the unborn child in your eyes." (Saviour Machine) Linux Usert#430188

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