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From: Stan Brown on 27 Feb 2010 08:24 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:45:57 -0500 from Beauregard T. Shagnasty <a.nony.mous(a)example.invalid>: > > Stan Brown wrote: > > > Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: > >> Stan Brown wrote: > >>> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > >>>> IrfanView can be downloaded free of charge, but it is not free > >>> > >>> Funny, the author disagrees. > >>> > >>> Irfanview most certainly *is* free. The very first sentence of > >>> http://irfanview.com/main_what_is_engl.htm > >>> begins > >>> "IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE > >>> (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer" > >> > >> When you misquote, you can argue anything. > > > > Certainly, but I did not misquote. > > Error by omission. > > >> Thomas's full phrase, which you snipped inappropriately, said: > >> "IrfanView can be downloaded free of charge, but it is not free or Open > >> Source software, .." > >> > >> "Free or Open Source" is a group of words frequently used together, > >> especially in the Linux world. > > > > Perhaps. But that's kind of irrelevant to a Windows-only program, > > isn't it? > > Are you claiming there are no open source applications for the Windows > platform? What about OpenOffice? Of course I am making no such absurd claim. What would lead you to put up such a straw man? > > In any event, what the PP said in English is that it's not free > > software (false) and it's not open source (true). I can't imagine > > why the PP chose to capitalize "Open Source", but that further > > undercuts your premise since the PP did *not* capitalize "free". > > This is Usenet, not an English grammar class. > > So, are you also claiming you win? Nobody wins this kind of pissing contest. The PP said Irfanview wasn't free. I corrected that with a quote from Irfanview's Web site. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ HTML 4.01 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/ validator: http://validator.w3.org/ CSS 2.1 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/ validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ Why We Won't Help You: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/05/05/why_we_wont_help_you
From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn on 27 Feb 2010 13:23 Jonathan N. Little wrote: > Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: >> Jonathan N. Little wrote: >>> True, but IrfanView can do quite a lot with a much simplified >>> interface. >> I would not call The GIMP's interface complicated with regard to >> cropping and scaling. Perhaps you have used an older version. > > The detached multiple "toolbar" window has been a source of criticism > for some time now. Entirely irrelevant with regard to cropping and scaling. Anyhow, each editor window has a menu and a context menu where the Batch feature, when installed, can be found. >>> The batch feature does not require programing experience like Gimp >> Neither The GIMP nor using its batch feature require programming >> experience. > > IIRC your need to write a script...I would say that "requires" > programming experience. You don't need to write the script, other people have already written it for you. All you need to do is install the script (which can be as easy as copying it to the documented location), restarting GIMP and selecting the menu item. >>> so it is more accessible for the home user. >> As was that plugin. > > What plugin? (Google is your friend. [psf 6.1]) E.g. <http://members.ozemail.com.au/~hodsond/dbp.html> PointedEars
From: jeff on 27 Feb 2010 17:54
Ben C wrote: > On 2010-02-26, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars(a)web.de> wrote: >> Jonathan N. Little wrote: > [...] >>> The batch feature does not require programing experience like Gimp >> Neither The GIMP nor using its batch feature require programming >> experience. > > Last time I tried using the GIMP in batch mode it involved programming > in Scheme. > > [...] >> But unnecessary, the license issue aside. Linux boxes have ImageMagick >> packages. > > Yes, I would use ImageMagick for batched cropping. You just use commands > like this: > > $ convert -crop '100x100+200+200!' image1.png image2.png I get the feeling that maintenance on Image::Magick is waining. It can be a troublesome package to install, particularly if you need Perl or PHP support. I used to have it on every server I worked on. Jeff |