Graphics & Pictures Apps Support

Am I doing something wrong / Am I burning a data CD wrong?

I couple days ago I downloaded Portable GIMP, installed and ran it once on the hard drive (as per the instructions "Running From a CD (GIMP Portable Live)"). But when I went to burn it to CD, there was a complaint about the folder structure being too deep (beyond ~8 deep). Am I doing something wrong in my CD burning? I had Portable GIMP directly in the root folder (not in a Programs subfolder).

The full-fledged GIMP package, with all the plugins and stuff, takes awfully long to load, and most those aren't really usefull for the standard MS Windows plug-and-play user (which I believe to be the target audience for most of the stuff in PortableApps.com). So, why not release a lightweight GIMP package with only the essential plugins and stuff? I tweaked the installation in my pen-drive, and now its load time is pretty decent...

Just to make it clear, I'm not saying the full package should be dumped. I just think having two parallel versions (full/slow-loading and incomplete/not-so-slo

If I place this file GIMPPortable.exe in the root of my USB drive then it returns an error when run:

"H:\GIMPPortable\Data\settings was not found. Please check your configuration."

Once I've created this folder, then it works.

I downloaded the ZIP version of this today.

Please note when creating zip files, you can't have an empty folder within a zip file!

So it probably got left out when you guys made your zip file!

Cheers.

The current version of PortableGimp (Windows XP) appears to install files in the current user's profile directory, similar to the way in which a full install of GIMP does. I'm currently using PortableGIMP on an actual hard drive, not a portable one, though I was able to replicate this problem from a portable drive.

I am using PortableGIMP from my hard drive because I'd like to avoid the pref files that GTK apps seem to spray all over the place, and never clean up on uninstall. I realize that these exist in part to provide per-user settings, but this is obviously a moot point for a portable app. Also, the program (and every other GTK+ app I've ever used) doesn't just stick its settings in a single directory; it tends to spread them around. PortableGIMP just does not run 'clean.' I was able to find leftover files in the following folders:

Hey everybody:

I found a site on the internet that gave a tutorial on how to turn a jpeg into a sketch then into a painting but it was hard to follow along with. Does anyone have a simple tutorial for me to follow? I have a picture that means a lot to me and I'd like to make a painting out of it. If you can help I would be very appreciative.

Hello:

I'm trying to make one of those sketches to paint images but the instructions tell me to open the Layers and Channels menu and I can't find it on Portable Gimp. Can someone please tell me how to get to this feature and if you're really feeling generous could you please give me some easy to understand directions on how to do this whole thing? Thanks.

I don't know wha to make of this, I run Gimp as a standalone app on my computer.
I reformated my hard drive the other day and for some reason when I loaded Gimp portable, a pop-up came up saying there was a trojan virus in Mosaic, and it kept on running. I can't remember if Mosaic is a Script-Fu or a filter, but when I had previously scanned the folder with both AVG and McAfee it didn't report a virus. Any ideas?

What does gimp portable actually need access to for it to run properly?

Also, is there any way with a standard GIMP install to stop it placing folders in C:\documents and settings\[user]

Portable GIMP 2.2.12 has been working well on my Windows XP machine. Today when starting the program, Panda Internet Security 2005 Platinum popped up a dialog reporting that it had neutralized spyware. Portable GIMP then stopped loading with a dialog reporting "gimp-2.2.exe - Unable To Locate Component" in the title bar, "This application has failed to start because intl.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem." in the text portion of the dialog.

The Panda popup says the adware it neutralized was "Adware/DesktopMedia" in the location "...\temp\nspf.temp\system.dll"

I've copied the gswin32c.exe to the ..\Portable GIMP\App\gimp\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins folder, but I still can't open up PDF's with GIMP.

I get a trio of error messages:

PDF document Message
Error starting ghostscript: Failed to execute child

PDF document Message
Could not interpret ...

GIMP Message
Opening ... failed:

Plug-In could not open image