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catgate · Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 9:33 pm Post subject: Jolly old Gimp again

Some weeks ago I raised the matter of Gimp and it's sudden seeming reluctance to accept my Epson DX5050 as a viable scanner. This situation is still as it was then.
Today I wanted to do a little bit of picture tweaking and after loading the picture I found I could not get the toolbox up on the screen. A few days ago I found that it would not “Save” a .jpg image it had to be “Exported”.
So I looked at “About” Gimp and found I was using Gimp 2.7.2 and it was an”unstable development release”.
The “Ubuntu Software Centre”(under “Applications”) told me that I had Gimp ver 2.7.3. So I told it to unistalled it, hoping to get rid of 2.7.2 . I then went back to Synaptic Package manager and told it to install 2.7.3........and got 2.7.2 back.
Some time back, maybe two or three months ago, the gimp screen opening picture changed to a view of an old fashioned electric switch and a meter and I associated this with a Gimp update. Looking back this may well have been the start of this nonsense.
Has anyone else had this performance or am I the only person to have received this visitation. And....more to the point....please has anyone any advice on how to get rid of the problem , without huffing and puffing and blowing the entire house down?
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ajgreeny · Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 11:28 pm Post subject:

If you are using ubuntu 12.04 you can now get gimp 2.8 to try out.

See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11918412#post11918412 for details and some warnings regarding 11.10 if that's your ubuntu version.
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towy71 · Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 11:40 pm Post subject:

My ubuntu install 11.10 uses Gimp 2.6.11 and I don't scan using it I use xsane, but I'm sure there must be a plugin Wink

btw my scanner is Epson Office BX300F multi-function printer/scanner/copier and fax machine
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catgate · Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 12:08 am Post subject:

Thank you for your replies, chaps.
I come from a long line of luddites and so I am still using Ubuntu 10.04....and waiting for a few more weeks until all the nuts and bolts have been rechecked on 12.04
I suppose I am wrong in saying that I used to scan with Gimp, Towie, because like you I used xsane via the gimp file>create route.
It puzzles me that this rogue 2.7.2 version should creep in somhow. I like to let sleeping dogs remain so. Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
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wyliecoyoteuk · Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 12:02 pm Post subject:

the jpg "export" is to remove transparency from the GIMP native format, which .jpg does not support. Click ok and then you can save it.
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catgate · Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 4:24 pm Post subject:

catgate · Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 6:44 pm Post subject:

I have just repeated the exercise of removing and reinstalling Gimp.
I removed, via Synaptic P.M., Gimp 2.7.3 ( that is what S.P.M. said was installed) and all the other support things that were loaded (gimp-data, gimp-data extras, gimp-draw, gimp-gutenprint) and I then Shut Down.
I rebooted and loaded the above listed items.
When I started up Gimp on the screen I was presented with the same unstable 2.7.2 again.

edit:- I have just checked the time and it is 5.41p.m.
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nelz · Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 8:18 pm Post subject:

catgate · Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 8:34 pm Post subject:

nelz · Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 11:35 pm Post subject:

All 2.7 versions are development (so-called "unstable" releases). It could be that you either have a mispackaged version or it really is 2.7.3 with an identity crisis. The only other alternative is that you have both versions installed. What do you get from

catgate · Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 12:01 am Post subject:

nelz · Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 2:17 am Post subject:

Then you have 2.7.2 in a package labelled 2.7.3. If the label on the item disagrees with the label on its box, believe the item itself.

I can understand distros not including 2.7 as it is both a development version and out of date. 2.8 is the latest stable release.
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catgate · Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 11:42 am Post subject:

Thnk you for that kind sir.

I suppose the next question is "Will Gimp 2.8 be compatible with a bewhiskered Ububtu 10.04?" Followed by "Oh ....well has Ubuntu 12.04 now got over it's teething problems?"
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nelz · Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 2:47 pm Post subject:

No idea, I use Linux rather than Ubuntu Wink

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ajgreeny · Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 11:10 pm Post subject: