Graphics & Pictures Apps Support

Using Gimp on a CDRW i get this message every time at startup:

Unable to open a test swap file. To avoid data loss please check the location and permissions of the swap directory defined in your Preferences (currently "${gimp_dir}").

I checked where the swap directory was -> F:\PortableApps\GIMPPortable\Data\settings

Could this be another INI file problem? Any clues?

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I use GIMP portable at school to do some icon and logo design and whenever I use one of the features in the script fu pack on an image, after i close GIMP, the script-fu.exe process stays running. The PCs are running XP Pro on a limited account. This issue only occurs on the school computers, it hasn't happened at home at all, and only if I use one of the script fu features.

Gimp Portable continually crashes every time I start it up on a USB Key running in a system using Windows Vista. The web site says it's now Vista ready but something is causing it to crash every time it starts up and gets about half-way through the initialization process.

I just downloaded the latest GIMP portable (v2.2.13). No *HELP* file included, because of its size, and said in a forum posting to be a separate download. Where can it be found for download? There really ought to be a distinct link to the help file download on the GIMP Portable web page.

Hello.

When I install the latest version 2.2.13 and run it for the first time, I get 3 total errors which can be by passed by pressing the continue button many times.

Picture of one of the errors: http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c136/Ediseye/PortableApps/GIMPPortable...

So I kept pushing continue and I got to GIMP. All was well so I decided to close it and reopen. Every time I open GIMP, I kept getting one error message and you can still bypass it by excessively pushing continue.

I don't know if it's like this for all the PortableApps.com Apps, but this is what i found in part of the GIMP ReplaceInFile file.

IfFileExists $2 +1 RIF_error ; knock-knock
FileOpen $R0 $2 "r" ; open the door

GetTempFileName $R2 ; who's new?
FileOpen $R1 $R2 "w" ; the escape, please!

RIF_loop: ; round'n'round we go
FileRead $R0 $R3 ; read one line
IfErrors RIF_leaveloop ; enough is enough
RIF_sar: ; sar - search and replace

I just downloaded gimp portable, and when I try running I get an error saying:

"The application failed to initialize properly (oxcoooo142). Click on OK to terminate the application."

How soon will it be before a 2.3.x version of GIMP Portable is ready? I really want to try the new Foreground Extraction Tool.

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Michael Garibaldi, Babylon 5, 2259

Hi there,

first of all, thanks a million for this superb portable app. Especially the fact that we don't have to install two separate programs (GTK & GIMP) anymore, really helps.

I'm in the process of convincing several people of giving the GIMP a good try, and one of the largest barriers for many to cross, is in fact the GTK menu style. Lots of people don't know any better than their Windows menu, and get completely lost when having to go to "my documents" from C:\.

there's a workaround available for this, as a plug-in, it features in the official gimp plug-in list:

Hi,all,
I've got a problem recently.
HowTo send commandline parameter to gimpPortable.exe?
I want to run gimpPortable in batch mode under Windows.
Normal Gimp under linux I start like this:
./gimp-2.2.exe -c -i -d -b '(script-fu-glossy-logo "$1" 100 "Eras" "Shadows 2" FALSE "Shadows 2" FALSE 5 "255 255 255" FALSE "Electric Blue" FALSE "Electric Blue" FALSE "Parque #1" TRUE TRUE 8 8)'

but how do I do under Windows?

Thanks for your reply.