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by **Mad Ma** » Sun, 07 Sep 1997 04:00:00

Wouldn't a Paint Shop Pro for Linux be nice?

Perhaps if enough people requested it, the fine folks
at JASC would port it over. There are plenty of people
that would register such a program if it were available,
I'm sure.

The combination of PSP and GIMP would be everything that
Linux graphic artists would need.

Max

by **Elliot L** » Mon, 08 Sep 1997 04:00:00

>Wouldn't a Paint Shop Pro for Linux be nice?

>Perhaps if enough people requested it, the fine folks
>at JASC would port it over. There are plenty of people
>that would register such a program if it were available,
>I'm sure.

>The combination of PSP and GIMP would be everything that
>Linux graphic artists would need.

Ferget that, the GIMP is good enough in itself ;-) I suppose having PSP
wouldn't hurt, but I honestly don't think that it would sell at all due to
the existence of the GIMP, and that's what would convince the people at
JASC to port it.

Having used the GIMP, PSP, and Photoshop on various occasions,
-- Elliot "I loved the GIMP for " http://www.redhat.com/
What's nice about GUI is that you see what you manipulate.
What's bad about GUI is that you can only manipulate what you see.

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by BI » Mon, 08 Sep 1997 04:00:00

GIMP? Well, if you're interested in personal tinkering. You won't find
GIMP being used by professional graphic artists.

> >Wouldn't a Paint Shop Pro for Linux be nice?

> >Perhaps if enough people requested it, the fine folks
> >at JASC would port it over. There are plenty of people
> >that would register such a program if it were available,
> >I'm sure.

> >The combination of PSP and GIMP would be everything that
> >Linux graphic artists would need.

> Ferget that, the GIMP is good enough in itself ;-) I suppose having PSP
> wouldn't hurt, but I honestly don't think that it would sell at all due to
> the existence of the GIMP, and that's what would convince the people at
> JASC to port it.

> Having used the GIMP, PSP, and Photoshop on various occasions,
> -- Elliot "I loved the GIMP for " http://www.redhat.com/
> What's nice about GUI is that you see what you manipulate.
> What's bad about GUI is that you can only manipulate what you see.

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by **Brian Muell** » Mon, 08 Sep 1997 04:00:00

>Ferget that, the GIMP is good enough in itself ;-) I suppose having PSP
>wouldn't hurt, but I honestly don't think that it would sell at all due to
>the existence of the GIMP, and that's what would convince the people at
>JASC to port it.

My main problems with GIMP are a) it has a really stupid name (GIMP?
come on, guys, give me a break. that makes it sound like a 14 year old
wrote it) and b) it doesn't take photoshop plug-ins last time I heard.

Of course, I have a hundred other minor gripes with it, but those are
less important.

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by **Thomas Hard** » Mon, 08 Sep 1997 04:00:00

> GIMP? Well, if you're interested in personal tinkering. You won't find
> GIMP being used by professional graphic artists.

That brings up a good question. What are Linux graphics professionals
using? It appears the market is a bit thin for Unix/Linux graphics clients.

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by **Scott Smit** » Mon, 08 Sep 1997 04:00:00

> Wouldn't a Paint Shop Pro for Linux be nice?

> Perhaps if enough people requested it, the fine folks
> at JASC would port it over. There are plenty of people
> that would register such a program if it were available,
> I'm sure.

LOL! Don't hold your breath on that request! <g>

When there are several very capable *free* graphics
clients out there for Linux, why opt for a Windows port?

Besides, the 16-bit PSP 3.11 shareware runs OK under Wine.
The 32-bit PSP 4.xx does not due to MFC calls that Wine
can't interpret correctly. :(

Quote:> The combination of PSP and GIMP would be everything that
> Linux graphic artists would need.

Actually, the combination of XView, XPaint and GIMP can
handle just about any task that PSP can. There are also a
handful of command line utilities that can do the batch
conversion stuff for Linux as well.

IMO, GIMP is a fantastic deformation and special effects
tool. Too bad there isn't a comparable port of that available
on other platforms.

For a good list of the Linux software that's available, most of
it for free, check out: http://www.linux.org

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by **Nathan Han** » Tue, 09 Sep 1997 04:00:00

> > GIMP? Well, if you're interested in personal tinkering. You won't find
> > GIMP being used by professional graphic artists.

> That brings up a good question. What are Linux graphics professionals
> using? It appears the market is a bit thin for Unix/Linux graphics clients.

You get Corel PhotoPaint when you buy CorelDRAW for Linux. It's a
very "professional" graphic image manipulation program.

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by **Nathan Han** » Tue, 09 Sep 1997 04:00:00

Quote:> GIMP? Well, if you're interested in personal tinkering. You won't find
> GIMP being used by professional graphic artists.

You won't find Linux being used by many "professional" system
administrators, either.

That says more about the "professional" system administrators
than it does about Linux.

Same goes for "professional" graphic artists and the GIMP.

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The sticker on the side of the box said "Supported Platforms: Windows 95,
Windows NT 4.0, or better", so clearly Linux was a supported platform.

by **fellowsd..** » Tue, 09 Sep 1997 04:00:00

[ about the GIMP ]

Quote:> b) it doesn't take photoshop plug-ins last time I heard.

Does a Mac photoshop plug-in work with 'Doze95 photoshop? If it does,
then your request seems reasonable. If not, then perhaps you need a
large shot of reality, and then to start looking for _equivalent_
behaviour.

Donal.
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by **Anders ?stlin** » Tue, 09 Sep 1997 04:00:00

> > > GIMP? Well, if you're interested in personal tinkering. You won't find
> > > GIMP being used by professional graphic artists.

> > That brings up a good question. What are Linux graphics professionals
> > using? It appears the market is a bit thin for Unix/Linux graphics clients.

> You get Corel PhotoPaint when you buy CorelDRAW for Linux. It's a
> very "professional" graphic image manipulation program.

BTW, Psp 3.0 runs fine under WINE (newest release). I tried it today to
load
a BMP file, edit it and save it as a GIF. Worked flawlessly in 16-bits
color
as well. The only thing I could not make work was printing... Fixed by
using
xv's cut and print option.

/Anders

Quote:> --
> The sticker on the side of the box said "Supported Platforms: Windows 95,
> Windows NT 4.0, or better", so clearly Linux was a supported platform.

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by **Muzz** » Tue, 09 Sep 1997 04:00:00

Quote:
> You get Corel PhotoPaint when you buy CorelDRAW for Linux. It's a
> very "professional" graphic image manipulation program.

> --
> The sticker on the side of the box said "Supported Platforms: Windows 95,
> Windows NT 4.0, or better", so clearly Linux was a supported platform.

How does Corel Draw V3.5 for Linux compare with v7 for Windoze? I'm using v7 but would love to move
to linux (more stable platfom - I'm sick of crashes) if v3.5 for linux supports the same features
(or even close to it) as v7.

Murray

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by **Eugene O'Ne** » Tue, 09 Sep 1997 04:00:00

>My main problems with GIMP are a) it has a really stupid name (GIMP?
>come on, guys, give me a break. that makes it sound like a 14 year old
>wrote it) and b) it doesn't take photoshop plug-ins last time I heard.

a) It's just a name, get over it. After all, is the name GNU any better?

b) photoshop doesn't have any plug-ins for linux, so there is no point in the
GIMP taking them. Instead, the GIMP has it's own plug-in model, which is at
least as good as photoshop's.

Quote:>Of course, I have a hundred other minor gripes with it, but those are
>less important.

You can think of a hundred things to complain about, that are even less
important than the first two? I am truly impressed.

My only complaint with the GIMP is that it needs a "smudge" tool. Other than
that, it is about as good as Paint Shop Pro, and showing signs of rapidly
improving beyond that.

-Eugene

by **s..** » Tue, 09 Sep 1997 04:00:00

>> GIMP? Well, if you're interested in personal tinkering. You won't find
>> GIMP being used by professional graphic artists.

>You won't find Linux being used by many "professional" system
>administrators, either.

[rest deleted for brevity]

Really? Then what *do* they use at home? AIX? ;-)

CU, Sico.

by **Mats Andtbac** » Tue, 09 Sep 1997 04:00:00

Quote:>GIMP? Well, if you're interested in personal tinkering. You won't find
>GIMP being used by professional graphic artists.

actually, you _do_ find some of them doing just that. check the GIMP
websites, they took a straw poll on uses of it for propaganda
purposes.

- m. "still wish it had decent docs, though" a.
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by **Oliver Obs** » Tue, 09 Sep 1997 04:00:00

> > > GIMP? Well, if you're interested in personal tinkering. You won't find
> > > GIMP being used by professional graphic artists.

> > That brings up a good question. What are Linux graphics professionals
> > using? It appears the market is a bit thin for Unix/Linux graphics clients.

> You get Corel PhotoPaint when you buy CorelDRAW for Linux. It's a
> very "professional" graphic image manipulation program.

The only really "professional" thing on Corel is the price you pay for it -
IMHO.

cheers
Oliver

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