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At work I have been working on some graphics for an OpenOffice.org CD production. But the graphics for print needs to be delivered in TIFF CMYK format. For this I found a CMYK plug-in for GIMP.
The installation is a bit tricky for GIMP 2.0 under Linux (haven’t tried the other versions/platforms).
First the installation guide doesn’t mention GIMP 2.0 for Linux second it differs from the 1.2 installation guide.
The binary provided in the file for GIMP 2.0 under Linux isn’t compiled for GIMP 2.0 but for the development version 1.3. This means that you either have to make symlinks on your system for the plug-in to hit the correct libs, or compile yourself.
I compiled the source myself and installed the plug-in i my .gimp-2.0/plug-ins/-dir because I don’t like to tinker to much with filesystem outside /home.
To compile you need the following dev-libs:
rohan:~# apt-get install libgimp2.0-dev liblcms1-dev libtiff4-dev
I also had to modify the Makefile to use GIMP 2.0 libs instead of 1.3.
The GIMP 1.2 installation also mentions the file: sRGB Color Space Profile.icm
But this file isn’t provided by the GIMP 2.0 files you can download on the homepage. I found the file in the download for GIMP 1.2 instead.
I would be nice if the plug-in was provided by a Debian package.
After yesterdays small data loss I have been working hard tonight to prepare the site for the update that I have been working on for so long now. All the pieces seem to have fallen together now and the new site seems to be running just fine.
The transission to Smarty and an enchanced data structure was hard work by I hope that it eventually will pay off. I have made a small update to the 3 old wallpapers. I have removed my email from them which was tagged on the lower left corner.
Next step(s) for the Debianart website:
* Different sorting of submissions (oldest, top downloads etc.)
* Graphics and news submissions directly from users
* Give me your ideas!!!
Now I’m tired 
Today I worked on a design for the upcomming debianart.dk site. The domain name isn’t enabled yet but on linux your don’t need DNS to access the site. Put something like the following in your /etc/hosts file like this:
80.196.151.225 debianart.dk www.debianart.dk
…and access it anyway.
I don’t know if there is a similar way on Windows?!
I think it lookss pretty good so far.
After making my first wallpaper I got a lot of idears I wanted to realize… and now I have (with some of them).
I have added two new wallpapers to my files section called ‘First love‘ (the red) and ‘Natures gift‘ (the green). You can see a thumb of them right here in this post.
My first wallpaper I also uploaded to GNOME-look.org and I have allready had almost 200 downloads. This is cool
Update: It seems a lot find my wallpaper through this entry, so I just want to point you the the site debianart.dk where you can find a few more wallpapers.
I have made my first wallpaper and ofcourse it is a Debian wallpaper.
You can see a thumb of it to the left. It is made with Inkscape which have dramaticaly increased in useability in the last few versions. This means that I have the source in a scaleable format (SVG) so if you have a screen resolution bigger than 1600×1200 then contact me and I can render a bigger one for you.
The wallpaper can be found in my files section in 1600×1200 resolution.
Today I made a sun i SVG very simple but also cool IMO.
Well you can see a small sample to the right or download it i my files section.
The other day I also found this link to a few tutorials for Inkscape.
I have been playing with different layouts of for emcken.dk and I think I have settled with the current top which you can see on the main page.
This design will eventually find its way to my blog also.
This have been made with Inkscape and GIMP. I’m working on a easy way to add files (mostly SVG and XCF files) to www.emcken.dk for download. Right now it’s only on the drawing board.
I have be thinking og making a new layout for my blog (and my emcken.dk) homepage. I have drawed a draft for a logo. The face should resemble me and if it looks okay ins SVG I’ll use it as a “signature” / “trademark” / “I-was-here” thing. I’ll try make it in SVG later this week. Perhapes I will soon update my blog to the 0.6(RC1) version. Who know?!
The next few days I will be at a net party with a lot of my friends
Just letting you know that I’m still alive and kicking
I also found that the size (dimensions) og a DVD cover should be: 272mm x 184mm.
When giving the cover 3mm overfill the size is 278mm x 190mm.
I also found this for a booklet:
The pictures above is taken from A1cds (but not directly linked to).
At work I sit at a fairly slow machine so it takes forever to transform svg files to high resolution bitmap pictures. Also Java has a default upper memory limit which is quickly excited when exporting to high resolution bitmap pictures. This problem is solved when the default upper limit is increased: -Xmx128m (use 128MB RAM)
I ssh’ed home to my desktop machine and tried to use Batik there. But I got the exception:
Error: Can't connect to X11 window server using ':0.0' as the value of the DISPLAY variable.
This happens when no X server is running but I googled around for while and found a solution to the problem: -Djava.awt.headless=true
So I ended up with something like this:
user@debian:~$ java -Xmx128m -Djava.awt.headless=true -jar batik-rasterizer.jar -dpi 300 -d out.png in.svg
