[scribus] using CinePaint to resize photographs

[Daniel Berlin]

John,

I don't know about the x86_64 version of CinePaint.

We use the same realease as you tried out, but on Fedora 12 multicore x686 installations were it runs with no problems.

If you encounter lots of error messages on CinePaint start-up which you don't understand then chances are you don't deal with Color Management (what all those CinePaint messages are usually about, as long as no Color Profiles are installed).

In any case: We need a color depth of at least 16 bit / channel because the images we deal with in pre-print are candidates for showing "zoned colors" or "color steps" when edited with 8 bit / channel image editors like GIMP, while we do not necessarily need fancy filters, and this is where CinePaint comes in handy.

Greets,
-- Dan

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> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:35:35 -0800
> From: johnxj at comcast.net
> To: scribus at lists.scribus.net
> Subject: Re: [scribus] using Gimp to resize photographs is very poor design
>
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:10:02 +0100
> Daniel Berlin  dijo:
>
>>Use GIMP?
>>
>>Yes and No. For a color depth beyond 8 bit / channel, choose CinePaint,
>>which supports at least 16 bit / channel and provides secure color
>>management.
>
> I had never tried CinePaint before, so just now I installed it on my
> Fedora 11 x86_64 laptop from the Fedora repositories. It is version
> 0.22-1.
>
> It launches, but crashes immediately if I try to open a file or create
> a new file. Launching it from the command line throws about a dozen
> warning messages and errors, none of which I understand.
>
> I don't even use the Gimp very much for my work and I doubt I'd ever
> make use of the features that CinePaint has beyond what the Gimp
> offers. I just uninstalled CinePaint.
>
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