Re: [Radiance-dev] memory usage rtrace -n

2018-05-04 Thread Lars O. Grobe
sume you know that to have gotten this far.) Cheers, -Greg From: "Lars O. Grobe" Date: May 4, 2018 9:38:42 AM PDT Hi Greg, unfortunately the currently running process was started from a build without the -g switch. I will recompile and test it to try getting the backtrace. I am pre

[Radiance-dev] modification of pgblur to handle black frames

2018-05-04 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi, I want to propose a small modification to the pgblur script, right after assigning the command line parameters to variables: set inp = "$3" set Lzero = `pextrem $inp:q | tail -1 | rcalc -e '$1=if((.265*$3+.67*$4+.065*$5)-1e-5,0,1)'` if ( $Lzero ) then     exec cat $inp:q         exit

Re: [Radiance-dev] memory usage rtrace -n

2018-05-04 Thread Lars O. Grobe
b that should prevent runaway memory growth, but it won't prevent an infinite loop. Those are the worst. From: "Lars O. Grobe" Date: May 4, 2018 8:43:55 AM PDT Hi, a quick follow-up just to clarify - I cannot proof that the stop / cont signals caused the completion of the task

Re: [Radiance-dev] memory usage rtrace -n

2018-05-04 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi, a quick follow-up just to clarify - I cannot proof that the stop / cont signals caused the completion of the task, it may have been coincidence... Right now I have a never-ending rcontrib-process again, and stop / cont does not help this time. Cheers, Lars. Hi Greg, Jan, I just observ

Re: [Radiance-dev] memory usage rtrace -n

2018-05-04 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi Greg, Jan, I just observed a similar problem with rcontib. I am running a chain of vwrays, rtrace, awk, rfluxmtx to calculate daylight coefficients in an image region (rtrace returns view origin, direction and modifier, and awk filters so that rays are passed into rfluxmtx only if a defined

Re: [Radiance-dev] specifying X11 location

2018-04-08 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi Philip, don't worry about the "healthy state" of the executables. Make sure that you have oconv ("pre-sorting" your geometry), vwrays (generating rays for given projections), rtrace (the fundamental ray-tracer), rpict (a ray-tracer for images), rcalc (a calculator for tabular data), and the

Re: [Radiance-dev] specifying X11 location

2018-04-06 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi Philip, as far as I understand you, the aim is to get a minimalistic Radiance rendering node. For that, I would propose to exclude all the X11, tcl-tk and tiff stuff. You will probably not work interactively on the node but get the results transferred to a local work-station, where you coul

Re: [Radiance-dev] how serious are these remaining 5 build errors?

2018-04-05 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi Philip, you may also want to install a current version of libtiff-dev. This is used for the tif image format conversion (ra_tiff and friends). This would all better go to the Radiance discussion rather the development list - unless we aim at providing a list of external dependencies for co

Re: [HDRI] automated HDR capture

2017-09-04 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi Raha, I am sure that there are many options, but I would recommend to look at the gphoto2 project. It offers you command-line tools to set the capture properties, acquire images and transfer them to an attached computer. If these are called e.g. by crond you have a nice automated monitoring

Re: [HDRI] converting RGB value to illuminance

2017-07-05 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi Farzaneh, the integral of the entire image, if it covers one hemisphere, would equal to the illuminance at the entrance pupil of your lens. However, I guess that you are more interested in relating pixel values to the illuminance at the corresponding locations on the reflective surfaces. F

Re: [Radiance-daysim] Comparison Daysim with Measured data

2017-02-09 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi Stefan, can you test the monitored data against other data sources? For many locations, you can get (at least interpolated) irradiance data from other weather stations. If you find e.g. good accordance between your data and that of others until Sep, but not afterwards, you would have to chec

Re: [HDRI] CIE Primary System

2016-10-11 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi Katharina, maybe this little-known converter may already do the job: http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/man_html/ra_xyze.1.html The header of a compressed Radiance hdr-image with pixel values in XYZ (2 deg. observer) looks like: FORMAT=32-bit_rle_xyze While the RGB counterpart would be lack

Re: [HDRI] raw2hdr Camera Response Function

2015-08-07 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi Mio, from my understanding (important disclaimer...), such an option would not be possible or usefult. The response function maps the pixel value to a sensor signal (sensor illuminance) by comparing the values of pairs of pixel values at different exposure settings. If e.g. the pixel coord

Re: [Gwyddion-users] Just for fun: 3D printed data

2015-08-06 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi, take a look at meshlab, it supports a bunch of algorithms for geometry reconstruction, repair and simplification. Cheers, Lars. -- ___ Gwyddion-users mailing list Gwyddion

Re: [HDRI] Question about header information of HDRI

2014-07-23 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi Tobias, the file format is described in the Radiance documentation: http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/refer/filefmts.pdf Please refer to pages 28ff. It is great to know that you are implementing an export option - I had to do this manually in the past using pvalue ;) Cheers, Lars. ___

Re: [HDRI] HDRI Digest, Vol 70, Issue 3

2014-04-19 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi Fatemeh, are you aware of alternatives such as pfstools and webhdr? Cheers, Lars. ___ HDRI mailing list HDRI@radiance-online.org http://www.radiance-online.org/mailman/listinfo/hdri

Re: [HDRI] HDR for Glare Analysis

2014-04-17 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi Fatemeh, I do not know wether the dynamic range of the raw images you get from your camera matches the requirements of what you intend to do with those images. The wide dynamic range in typical daylid scenes led folks here to use exposure series. About the software, I have some doubts that

Re: [HDRI] Vignetting Correction Using a ULS

2014-04-11 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Dear Joshua, the command pcomb allow you to do that. However, there are some caveats to be aware of: 1) The center of the image in the meaning of x_max / 2, y_max / 2 is not (exactly) the centre of the lens. There is no perfectly aligned camera, the optical axis will almost never pass the se

Re: [HDRI] Does it use climate data for glare analysis?

2014-03-07 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi Nithya, evalglare calculates daylight glare probability based on luminance maps. It is up to you how you generate these. If you use simulation tools, they may be based on climate data, depending on how you set up your models. If you use a camera, they will probably be snapshots of the condit

Re: [Radiance-openstudio] Using CFS for thermal analysis

2014-02-23 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi. >> May I ask you one more thing (even if I kind of 'feel' what is gonna be the >> answer) : >> what about if the xml file was generated by a photogoniometer, based in >> Tregenza's subdivision of the sky? >> >> Do you know if there is a way to import such file in Window? David presented e

Re: [HDRI] Tone mapping for animation

2013-10-22 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi David, Thus my question: is it possible to explicitly set the exposure used in the tonemapping process with any tool in Radiance? I'd say combine pfilt with ra_tiff, so that you set a fixed exposure with pfilt -e X and keep that untouched in the later conversion using ra_tiff -e 0. Would tha

Re: [HDRI] hdr imaging doubts - evalglare

2013-10-05 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi Nithya, I think noone answered this so far. 1.As evalglare software requires hdr images of 800x800 pixels, i tried to get the pixel information using getinfo in DOS window from the START button-> run->cmd. And while using pfilt command to divide x and y by a number, it says pfilt is not rec

Re: [HDRI] pcomb error

2013-01-24 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi there is a backslash in your commandline. Probably you copied it from a script, where it was inserted to continue the command on the next line. However, in your case, it will cause the error message you describe. pcomb -e 'sq(x):x*x;r=sqrt(sq(2/xres*x-1)+sq(2/yres*y-1))' -e 'sf=-9E-09*r^5 +

Re: [Gwyddion-users] how to change resolution in 3d images

2013-01-20 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Once you found how to get your data into some 3d vertex information, I would advice to have a look at mesh lab. It offers a lot of filters just as what you are looking for. > Not so long ago we discussed exporting the data and rendering the 3D image in > another software package. Yeti even imp

Re: [HDRI] Photosphere "Cannot solve for response function"

2012-08-27 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi Peony! > Is there anything else, apart from switching to a DSLR camera, I can do > to create a camera response curve? I guess there is something in between mobile phones and DSLR. There are compact cameras around, some of which can be remote controlled. Cheers, Lars. ___

Re: [Radiance-dev] Version.c corrupt?

2012-07-02 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi, I just experienced again that strange problem with Version.c from latest head. How is the content of this file actually generated? Mine contains the string content after running makeall install, but not the c-code around. I manually solved the problem by wrappin the string. Still I wonder why

[HDRI] HDR display options

2012-06-01 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi, I am wondering what devices people are currently using to display HDR imaging data. Some may have seen the light box developed to display the Radiance renderings of Hagia Sophia (presented on the Radiance workshops). That is a rather static approach fitting to exactly one image, made for ex

Re: [Radiance-dev] vwright and stereoscopic image generation

2012-04-09 Thread Lars O. Grobe
this, but only after Friday. I wanted to share my work though, so that maybe others can comment or correct me. Cheers, Lars. -- Dipl.-Ing. Architect Lars O. Grobe On Apr 10, 2012, at 1:07, "Gregory J. Ward" wrote: > Hi Lars, > > I only ever created stereo slide pairs usin

[Radiance-dev] vwright and stereoscopic image generation

2012-04-09 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi all, I just found that vwright, which looked like the perfect tool to support stereoscopic image pair generation, generates a new view by simply moving the view-point -vp. This does not consider the fact that our eyes (hopefully) are able to focus on an object, not looking parallel into infinit

[Shotwell] mailing list polls (was: Where did the publishing options go?)

2012-03-29 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Dear mailing list subscribers, please respect this list as a support and discussion service - not a voting tool. If every subscriber starts adding a +/-1 here now, our mailboxes will be filled and most user be unsubscribed soon. If you have new arguments, share, but do not send out such mails. Tha

Re: [HDRI] HDRI capture of LED (histograms and range)

2012-03-02 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi Yulia and all, I just have one small question for understanding what you are doing. Did you derive the response curve of your camera using another setup (not the directly visible LED) and reuse that camera response later on your LED captures? Or do you take the camera response from the same

Re: [HDRI] HDRI capture of LED

2012-02-20 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi Axel! > Lars, if this is a question to me--then yes, I did consider using an > ND filter, but no, I can't use one because the lens I'm using is a > 4.5mm fisheye lens that doesn't allow the use of filters, AFAIK. Ok that sounds scary. Probably it would be possible to get a setup with a filter

Re: [HDRI] HDRI capture of LED

2012-02-20 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi, did you consider using a filter to work with higher luminances at still reasonable shutter speeds? Cheers, Lars. ___ HDRI mailing list HDRI@radiance-online.org http://www.radiance-online.org/mailman/listinfo/hdri

[Radiance-dev] daily snapshot of head is empty

2012-02-02 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi, I just found that the tarball of the daily head-snapshot is empty: http://www.radiance-online.org/software/snapshots/radiance-HEAD.tgz The cpio-archive is ok. Cheers, Lars. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Kryptografische Unterschrift ___ Radiance

Re: [Radiance-dev] NURBS oconv?

2012-02-01 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Did anyone ever think about linking to the opencascade libraries? Not only they support a wide range of file formats (including high-level ones such as step) - they also provide meshing routines. Just a thought. Cheers, Lars. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Kryptografische Unterschrift __

Re: [HDRI] pvalue -o

2012-01-31 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi Kevin, from my understanding, the exposure correction here is done by modifying the exposure, not the image data itself. pvalue -o would give you the raw pixel data, ignoring the exposure (and thus the correction you did). So I would not use the -o switch here, because you want the exposure cor

Re: [Radiance-dev] gbXML 5.0 public comments (Dan Glaser)

2011-10-31 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi! On 31.10.2011 19:24, Guglielmetti, Robert wrote: > On 10/30/11 12:09 PM, "Lars O. Grobe" wrote: >> ... However, in Radiance, we have no database concept. Maybe >> this would be something to think about - a database interface. Than we >> could access unique

Re: [Radiance-dev] gbXML 5.0 public comments (Dan Glaser)

2011-10-30 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi Dan, hi list subscribers, it is possible to encode a Radiance scene in XML. I tried it some years ago. I did some extra work trying to do almost all conversions from/to XML using only xml stylesheets, to have no extra code. This still implies adding two lines to the end and the beginning of a n

Re: [Radiance-dev] parallel Radiance

2011-02-01 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi! There used to be a modified implementation of Radiance using MPI. I never used it, and it was based on a release that is pretty much outdated by now. The code modifications together with a paper titled "MPI-parallelized Radiance on SGI CoW and SMP" were published by Roland Koholka, Heinz

Re: [HDRI] capturing with concentrated light sources?

2011-01-25 Thread Lars O. Grobe
. Grobe On Jan 26, 2011, at 0:50, "Guglielmetti, Robert" wrote: > > On 1/25/11 4:33 PM, "Lars O. Grobe" wrote: > >> Hi Claus! >> >> I am not optimistic about capturing sky and sun using a simple camera. >> Without worrying about hdr codes - unl

Re: [HDRI] capturing with concentrated light sources?

2011-01-25 Thread Lars O. Grobe
that costs you the weaker sky luminances. So probably, hardware needed. Creating hdr images from ldr stacks definitely works without a Mac. Hdrgen and pfstools are just two of the many options available. Cheers, Lars. -- Dipl.-Ing. Architect Lars O. Grobe On Jan 25, 2011, at 20:29, Claus

Re: [Shotwell] Basic video edition : rotation

2011-01-08 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi! IS PHOTO ALBUM SOFTWARE not full featured video editing suite! I 100% agree that it is not useful to add all functions one may happen to want to handle media into Shotwell - even though it is more then a photo album software. In my understanding, Shotwell is some kind of a content (lib

[Shotwell] permissions on image files

2010-12-11 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi all, today, while importing old images form a CD I found, I faced the following problem: I imported my images by dragging them onto the Shotwell window, which worked perfectly well. However I found that the date-field was set wrong, so I selected the files in Shotwell and attempted to cha

[Radiance-dev] gensky: solar time and warning about standard meridian deviation

2010-12-08 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi, I get "gensky: warning: XXX hours btwn. standard meridian and longitude" warnings even though specifying solar time. Should we have a conditional in gensky.c testing for solar time before writing out the message? Either I use gensky in the wrong manner, or it is a bit confusing towards u

[Shotwell] Shotwell 0.7.2: file error on import of images from directory on local file system

2010-11-12 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi, this is my first mail to this list. I am currently looking into options to organize my photo archive. So far I had a simple directory tree and tried to keep track by naming directories and such. Now, I would love to use the metadata of my images and ease that work a litte. Shotwell seams

Re: [HDRI] Re: Mirror Balls

2010-08-25 Thread Lars O. Grobe
On 25.08.2010 17:41, Thomas Lock wrote: Does anyone still use Mirror Balls to create 360x360 hdr panoramic images? If so what is your work flow and app of choice, cause i am wondering what process ppl use to remove the photographer from the photo? Thomas Hi Thomas! As this is more about panor

Re: [HDRI] HDR

2010-06-07 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hello Brajeshlal(?) I took 7 Cr2 images of the sky with combination of two different f-stops, to get the range 17 stops. When i assembled them i get blue tint on the final HDR image. What can be the possible reason that i am getting blue color? You did not give much detail on what you try to

Re: [Perldl] Installation - Rant

2010-05-03 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi! > them could be useful as well. Maybe it is time to > revisit possible issues with PDL for packagers. > Yes... having binaries including functionality (and all correct dependencies) required by most users included in distributions for Linux would solve most of the problems. Building woul

Re: [Perldl] converting NetCDF data to a real db

2010-03-30 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi, just out of curiousity, did you consider using the Geo-extensions as you are already going to use Posgres? This seams to be quite close to a GIS application. Cheers, Lars. ___ Perldl mailing list Perldl@jach.hawaii.edu http://mailman.jach.hawaii.

Re: [Perldl] import table data into PDL?

2010-03-19 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi! > This is newbie's question. How to import a table data into PDL? Like an > excel table, each column and each row have names. I didn't find way to > naming columns and rows in PDL. Any clue will be greatly appreciated. Look at rcols(). And - you can give your variables any name you want. Che

Re: [OpenDX2-users] start-up behaviour of GUI when -program parameter used

2010-03-12 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi Thaddeus, thank you for the reply and sorry for me being late now...! Thaddeus Thomas wrote: 1) do you see anything on the "console" terminal window or in SysLog 2) could it be that its trying to connect to the DX server which is not running? Well, I hoped that the DX server would get star

[OpenDX2-users] start-up behaviour of GUI when -program parameter used

2010-03-09 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi all, I have a weird problem with openDX when running it from a shell script wrapper. I can start "dx", and execute a program by loading it through "run visial program". If however I try to achieve the same using dx -program mynetwork The GUI opens the required windows and hangs. This happ

[Perldl] elevations on fisheye projection of hemispherical data

2010-03-06 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi list, I am somehow stuck at mapping my spherical coordinates to a plane. I have data in pidl with theta, phi dimensions. As the resolution is variable, I use rebin to bring it to 360 before further processing. Then I want to map one hemisphere on a plane, so that data becomes height. This i

Re: [OpenDX2-users] consider to close mailing list?

2010-02-27 Thread Lars O. Grobe
e-letter schrieb: > Personally, I prefer the mailing list, but since a web forum is > available it looks like most people prefer to use the web forum. Hi, I also prefer the mailing lists. But the problem exists, people get lost in between the forums and the list. Why not linking both together, so

[Perldl] function fitting

2010-02-13 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi, first, I habe just subscribed to this list. I have been using PDL before mainly for imaging, but now I am trying to use it for something rather different. I have a huge amount of data points with the independent variables being spherical coordinates and the dependent a measurement reading:

[Gwyddion-users] using Gwyddion with angular data?

2009-10-30 Thread Lars O. Grobe
;-) ). Regards Lars O. Grobe. -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile

Re: [OpenDX2-users] OpenDX development

2009-10-22 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi Greg! > Anyone out there? I'm wondering if anyone is interested in some work I've > been doing on OpenDX - I've replaced the multi-process model with a > multi-threaded one, enabling a much (much!) simplified memory manager. This > enables me to remove the limit on memory size (though I be

Re: [OpenDX2-users] first try - opendx and plotting angular dependent data

2009-10-19 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi Joel! > way already. You may be interested in the OpenDX forum at > http://www.opendx.org/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl > It gets more readers than the mailing list, I think. > Unforunately yes, I prefer the mailing list comfort, but thank you for the hint. Just got registred there. >> I found that

Re: [OpenDX2-users] first try - opendx and plotting angular dependent data

2009-10-18 Thread Lars O. Grobe
0)."). So I tried to change my input b by passing it through a second compute module, which was simply to add the second scalar: [(a),(0)] - but this did not work, same error message. So how do I match the two inputs, to be able to modify

[OpenDX2-users] first try - opendx and plotting angular dependent data

2009-10-18 Thread Lars O. Grobe
attachments for this list. Thank you, I hope this is not too much FAQ, regards Lars O. Grobe. ___ OpenDX2-users mailing list OpenDX2-users@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opendx2-users

[hugin-ptx] using Radiance rgbe (hdr) images as input

2009-05-20 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Dear all, I am trying to stitch three hdr images in rgbe format using Hugin. We have one recent Windows install as well as my Linux desktop, with still a self-compiled 0.7.0.3104 is installed, available. In both cases, Hugin crashes when loading the images after asking me for the lens paramete

[hugin-ptx] Re: set up for calibration of a fish-eye lens

2009-04-22 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi Bruno, thanks for the reply! > In principle you don't need the overall scene brightness to be > constant for calculating vignetting, so long as the light > distribution remains the same. hugin can 'optimise' exposure > simultaneously with vignetting. > > In practice, I'm not sure what envir

[hugin-ptx] Re: fov computation from exifless data

2009-04-09 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Maybe it just assumes the right sensor size? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

[hugin-ptx] Re: set up for calibration of a fish-eye lens

2009-04-08 Thread Lars O. Grobe
This is a follow-up to my own mail. I found some news about what equipment I have available, but a new question arised on conditions for calibration. Lars O. Grobe wrote: > To determine vignetting, all that is important is overlap and constant > light condition (ok, the latter is fa

[hugin-ptx] set up for calibration of a fish-eye lens

2009-04-08 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi list... I have been asking a similar question a while ago, than had to move over to a different project, and now the same problem arises again. I have a fisheye lense with a fov of about 185 degrees. I want to calibrate my camera/lens so that I will be able to reproject images to 'perfect'

Re: [dba-users] Page breaks

2009-02-18 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi Zoltan! Detail section of Report in design view, Properties>General tab, "Force new page" property set to "After section". Thank you, this made my reports somehow useable! Still, the result is one extra blank page after each page break. Strange. CU Lars.

Re: [dba-users] Page breaks

2009-02-18 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi, I just found this old thread. I am currently trying to get a rather basic report set up to get a quick overview on the content of a product database. For each product I have one row in a table, and I used Sun's report extension to create a report for Base. The output is a writer document,

[scribus] Frustrations:Paragraph Styles & fonts keep changing; cut & paste (Scribus 1.3.3.13svn

2008-11-12 Thread Lars O. Grobe
t potentially incompatible pdfs out of scribus if needed. CU Lars. -- Dipl.-Ing. Architekt / Y. Mimar Lars O. Grobe Susam Sk. 11/1, Cihangir, ?stanbul, T?rkiye grobe at gmx.net www.larsgrobe.de +90-535-8579960

[scribus] unable to import images and text

2008-10-08 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi Ermin, I could reproduce the errors you observed here with Inkscape 0.46 and Scribus 1.3.3.12 on Windows XP, Ghostscript 8.6.2. Both PS and PDF when exported from Inkscape did not show the text. I was able to write an EPS from Inkscape, that displayed correctly in Ghostview, but failed in S

[scribus] unable to import images and text

2008-10-08 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi Ermin! > Resulting image is stored as PS, using any of the two options (4 total): > There are two export filters for Postscript in Inkscape, one "Postscript" and one being "Postscript via Cairo", did you try both of them, too? Are you sure that you ave Ghostscript configured in the Scribu

[scribus] unable to import images and text

2008-10-08 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi Ermin, first, the copy&paste stuff depends on the operating system and desktop environment. I guess you are using windows (as you use Office)? As JLuc wrote, Scribus can paste Text - but being a frames based DTP app, it can paste text (content) only into frames, not into an empty page. It w

[scribus] hardware requirements

2008-09-25 Thread Lars O. Grobe
>> I'm planning to buy a computer for my layout workings and as I have >> no idea about the standards nowadays I'd like to take advantage of >> your experience. How much RAM, processor capacity... do I need to >> run Scribus in a comfortable way (no sudden crashs etc.)? Hi, sudden crashes should

[scribus] Scribus for Comics

2008-09-25 Thread Lars O. Grobe
> was to take my Wacom tablet and draw/trace these pages into a DTP (I was > thinking InDesign at first). Is that functionality available with > Scribus, and will it let me manipulate fonts and images? How meaty is > the image editor (is it comparable to Photoshop)? You want to look at inkscape

[scribus] Smaller file sizes?

2008-09-12 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi list, to get a reasonable file size for screen display, first, embed only the fonts that are not standard, and embed them as subset. Outlining is not reasonable for a document mainly based on text (forget about this copyright-idea - those who just read the text and use it in the intended wa

[scribus] pdf import

2008-09-04 Thread Lars O. Grobe
> the answer is simple: > it was much easier to do it that way, since ghostscript is doing all the > work! > Yes, but where is the difference between converting pdf->eps and pdf->tif using ghostscript (in both cases) from the developers' perspective? I am converting my pdf's to eps using gho

[scribus] pdf import

2008-09-04 Thread Lars O. Grobe
> I think it's best to leave it to remind yourself that this is going to > be a rasterized PDF, Is there a reason that Scribus handles PDF like that? Having a call to Ghostscript translating the PDF to PS instead of pixels and placing it would not have been much overhead, so I wonder why it is

[scribus] The Scribus target - a question for the developers

2008-09-04 Thread Lars O. Grobe
>> This is an interesting comment. Maybe we could breifly discuss why you >> consider OpenOffice.org more "finished" than Scribus 1.3.3.12 (the stable >> version). >> ;-) Do not forget that Scribus and OpenOffice have a completely different history. OOo has its roots in a commercial produ

[scribus] Imposiion (Was: The Scribus target)

2008-09-02 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Taking the open source nature and modularity of the free software world into account, plus the pdf-centred workflow in Scribus (which reflects what the industry is in at the moment imho), even though I needed it some weeks ago - I think imposition is not a tool that has to be integrated. In the

[scribus] How to use color management?

2008-09-01 Thread Lars O. Grobe
> p.s. this has got to be the most informative discussion on cm that i > have ever seen on this list. > I think it would be hard to find a comparision on meters like that anywhere else, so yes, thank you for compiling this! CU Lars.

[scribus] New Linux User -- Scribus in place of Page Maker 6?

2008-08-08 Thread Lars O. Grobe
> Looking forward to 1.3.5... As everyone is talking about 1.3.5 - can I expect mayor improvements in memory management? I am rather happy with scribus, but I experience awful slowdowns on documents with many drawings, and I remember those times when I was doing layout on Quark 4, OS 9 and 256

[scribus] Scribus in place of Pagemaker?

2008-08-07 Thread Lars O. Grobe
> Greg, I am only thinking of this now but could it be simpler to remove > the 1.3.4 link on the Scribus website so the people who are making those > decision could simply have no access to that version? On the sourceforge site, Mac users are directed to 1.3.4 by default, as it is listed as S

[scribus] New Linux User -- Scribus in place of Page Maker 6?

2008-08-06 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi! > amazingly featureful and powerful. I do not thing Scribus is very > stable AT ALL. Others may disagree. But I am used to having Scribus > crash on me ALL THE TIME. I experience some scribus crashes from time to time, but they are related to too complicated drawings. I have a lot of eps'es g

[scribus] Color problem when doing imposition

2008-08-03 Thread Lars O. Grobe
> uses CMYK while my PC works with RGB). Since I switched to Linux > Multivalent shifts the color balance towards the Red. How did you determine the color shift? I hope not only by looking to the screen? CU Lars. -- n?chster Teil -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed...

[scribus] imposition for 10cm x 10cm brochure printed on A2 printer

2008-08-01 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Thank you Pierre, merci, how did you create the signature? I would actually make a small template now, cut it and look at the paper ;-) CU Lars.

[scribus] imposition for 10cm x 10cm brochure

2008-08-01 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Fritz, hi, thank you for that, but the problem is more that the pages have to be rotated, the position must be so that neighbouring pages meet, and white space can be cut, etc ;-) > -- > is that, what you want to know. > > if so: you have to verify. > it's just, what

[scribus] imposition for 10cm x 10cm brochure printed on A2 printer

2008-08-01 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Peter, thank you, I will try exactly that. As my booklet is to be 10x10, there is a lot of white space to cut, so positioning is important... CU Lars.

[scribus] Programm scribus

2008-07-31 Thread Lars O. Grobe
> We have a Glossary on the Wiki, but it seems maybe what we need is a > page (or pages) that shows a language cross-reference for the menus. Actually what was asked for is a manual in German. There used to be some available, one outdated at: http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/docs/indexde.htm

[scribus] imposition for 10cm x 10cm brochure printed on A2 printer

2008-07-31 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi List, I just subscribed, and I have been using Scribus mostly for assembling drawings into PDF pages, not much layout so far. Now I am trying to set up a little brochure. It is 26pages (I will insert two blanks at the end to make it divideable by four), should have a final size of 10cm x 10

Re: [vos-d] Van Jacobson: "named data"

2007-05-09 Thread Lars O. Grobe
> In effect, regardless of the wrapper, unless you have the original 1959 > first episode of Rocky and Bullwinkle, you probably can't answer those > trivia question correctly. There are some approaches to organize these decentralized verification processes in the field of certificates. E.g. cacer

Re: [vos-d] Van Jacobson: "named data" -- revision control

2007-05-09 Thread Lars O. Grobe
> I don't quite understand what you need versioning for. The bulk of > changes you get in a shared word is avatar movement, which may wind > up to ~30 changes per second per avatar. Nice question, there must be a control on what is covered by versioning. It may be enough for some applications

Re: [vos-d] VOS on Solaris?

2007-04-25 Thread Lars O. Grobe
> Do you have libtool installed? That is a separate package from autoconf > and automake. I compiled the most recent one from GNU. As I am not root, I installed it in my home and added it to my PATH. Does the build make any assumption where to find libtool (e.g. under /usr)? > Also, to be hon

Re: [vos-d] VOS on Solaris?

2007-04-22 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi, I am sorry, I should have given these details in the original post... > Are you using 0.23, or the development version (source control > repository snapshot or checkout)? Snapshot, not the .23 release. > What version of autoconf is being used, and what version of automake? autoconf is 2.54,

[vos-d] VOS on Solaris?

2007-04-22 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi, did anyone manage to build VOS on Solaris? Here it ends: libs/vos/vip/Makefile.am:1: Libtool library used but `LIBTOOL' is undefined. libs/vos/vip/Makefile.am:1: The usual way to define `LIBTOOL' is to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' libs/vos/vip/Makefile.am:1: to `configure.ac' and run `aclocal' and `a

Re: Howto help hans?

2006-12-03 Thread Lars O. Grobe
> I just read in a german online news-site > http://forum.tecchannel.de/news/themen/linux/456733/ that Hans' > advocate Daniel Horowitz (I don't know wether this is the right word, > that one how helps hans in front of the court) stopped working for > hime because Hans was not able to pay him anymo

Re: [de-users] Installieren eines Zertifikats zum Signieren mit Ooo2 unter OS X?

2005-11-20 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Ich kann mal auf der porting Mailingliste nachfragen ob dort jemand weiß wie das OOo für OS X mit Zertifikaten umgeht und wenn das noch nicht implentiert ist, wann wir es zeitlich implementieren können. Hallo Eric, danke erst mal für die Antwort. Ja, man merkt an dieser Stelle halt, daß die ne

Re: [de-users] Installieren eines Zertifikats zum Signieren mit Ooo2 unter OS X?

2005-11-12 Thread Lars O. Grobe
(bzw., nachdem ich jetzt einen Hinweis darauf gefunden habe - muss ich tatsächlich einen Thunderbird extra dafür installieren?) smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

[de-users] Installieren eines Zertifikats zum Signieren mit Ooo2 unter OS X?

2005-11-12 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hallo, ich habe es nicht hinbekommen bisher: ich habe hier rc3 von Openoffice.org für OS X, und möchte gerne Dokumente signieren. Wie importiere ich aber ein Zertifikat in Ooo? Die Zertifikate im "Schlüsselbund" (wo OS solche Dinge üblicherweise ablegt) werden nicht gefunden, und eine Datei z

Re: Problem with preexec ?

2003-03-07 Thread Lars O. Grobe
> >[profiles] > >path = \\%L\%H\profile.%m Hi! Once there have been problems if profiles were stored in home directories, there were issues with connections being kept open. Is this still the case with current Samba version, or has there been a solution I didn't hear about? CU, Lars.

Re: [Samba] Samba pdc, Norton Ghost enterprise edition and joinin g the domain?

2002-12-19 Thread Lars O. Grobe
> You could try a batch file with > > NETDOM /Domain:MYDOMAIN /user:adminuser /password:apassword MEMBER > MYCOMPUTER /JOINDOMAIN > > Then > > NETDOM /Domain:MYDOMAIN MEMBER MYCOMPUTER /JOINDOMAIN > > search microsoft.com for comand line join domain for more info. > > Bob Hi Bob! Thank you,

[Samba] Samba pdc, Norton Ghost enterprise edition and joining the domain?

2002-12-18 Thread Lars O. Grobe
Hi List. We have a Samba 3.0pre21 PDC set up here on our prim. fileserver. We use Windows 2000 SP2 on our PC clients. We install clients with system images from disk and than install applications from one central machine running Norton Ghost EE. Ghost has the functionality not only to install

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