Michael J. Hammel

Building a better today…because tomorrow is in question…

Art and Graphics

How they integrate w/ computers.

I discovered one problem today – the aiptek driver loaded even though it couldn’t talk to the evdev driver. I didn’t have that module built for my particular kernel. So I went into the 2.6.11 source tree under drivers/input and ran make -C /usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=$PWD modules where /usr/src/linux symlinked to […]

Some success w/Aiptek today

Fri October 21, 2005 in Aiptek Tablet / General / GIMP / Hardware tagged GIMP / Linux / Writing (updated 7118 days ago)

My Aiptek 12000U arrived today. It’s a refurbished tablet but it appears to be in the original packaging. This is what I’m doing to get it configured under Linux. First, I had to go to the Aiptek driver web site. The SourceForge site has a downloadable package. That package allows […]

Getting the Aiptek 12000U working

Wed October 19, 2005 in Aiptek Tablet / General / GIMP / Hardware / X11 tagged Fedora / Linux / Lost / rpm / X11 / yum (updated 7118 days ago)

I’ve discovered that the Aiptek HyperPen 1200U (available refurbished directly from Aiptek) drawing tablet is supported under Linux. The drivers appear to support nearly the complete feature set. At less than 1/2 the price of what a comparable Wacom drawing tablet would cost I can’t help but try one of […]

Aiptek HyperPen 12000U and GIMP

Wed October 12, 2005 in Aiptek Tablet / GIMP / Hardware tagged acer / GIMP / graphics / Linux / linux format / Wacom (updated 7118 days ago)

I’m building the latest released developers version of GIMP (2.3.4 – part of the pre-2.4 series). This requires GTK+ 2.6 but I think I recently heard Sven saying that there is already a 2.8 requirement in CVS. So I grabbed GTK+ 2.8 and friends to build prior to building GIMP. […]

GTK+ 2.8 notes

Fri October 07, 2005 in General / GIMP / GTK+ tagged Fedora / GIMP / GTK+ / yum

I was working on my book at lunch today and discovered an interesting and (as far as I can tell) undocumented requirement when using the Displace filter. The source and map layers must have the same size. Displace provides a menu of potential map layers in two menus (one for […]

GIMP Displace tip

Thu June 16, 2005 in General / GIMP / Linux tagged GIMP (updated 7118 days ago)

My new book on GIMP is going well so far. I’ve received a template with styles for OpenOffice from the publisher that I need to use. Up to this point I’ve been doing everything in vi. They probably wouldn’t appreciate the book being submitted that way, though I do get […]

The book writing process

Sun February 27, 2005 in Art and Graphics / General / Writing tagged GIMP / Lost / Writing

I completed the port of the Graphics Muse Tools to GIMP 2.2.3 and GTK+ 2.6. The former required only a few minor changes to the use of layer and image menus (primarily) while the latter was more involved. Fortunately, most of this involved changing things like gtk_signal_connect to g_signal_connect. And […]

GIMP, porting, and XSane

Thu February 24, 2005 in Art and Graphics / Linux / Software Development tagged GIMP / graphics / GTK+ / ximba (updated 7372 days ago)

I posted a new section to the GIMP Gallery to display the artwork I’ve been doing for Linux Format magazine. Linux Format is a glossy print publication from Future Publishing targeted and end users and is published in the UK. Note that their web site doesn’t do their publication justice, […]

GIMP Gallery updated

Fri December 17, 2004 in Art and Graphics tagged GIMP / graphics / Linux / linux format / Writing (updated 7441 days ago)

The text overflowing into the right hand column has been fixed under IE for all the ximba.org pages. It was an easyfix once I found what the problem was (using “right: 235px” instead of “margin-right: 235px”). I also fixed up the fonts a bit so they look cleaner under both […]

Ximba issues with XP fixed

Thu November 25, 2004 in Art and Graphics tagged ximba

Well, it’s not actually hell but it is more work than you might expect. When I recently tried to build GIMP 2.0 I found that the configure script said I needed fontconfig v2.x, whereas my RH9 system has fontconfig 1.x. After waiting around while the fontconfig host site (freedesktop.org) was […]

GIMP 2.0 building and dependency hell

Tue November 23, 2004 in Art and Graphics / Linux / Software Development tagged Fedora / GIMP / rpm (updated 7465 days ago)

I did a little research this morning and found some potential fixes to the fixed positioning problems under IE. There is Eric Bednarz’s solution, which includes references to using IE’s conditional comments to load appropriate CSS styles. And then there is a thread form 2003 on WebmasterWorld.com that gives specific […]

Fixed Positioning for IE

Tue November 23, 2004 in Art and Graphics tagged java / Linux (updated 7464 days ago)

I tried out my new design under Win/XP using both IE and Firefox. IE displays it okay but the menus are not laid out in abosolute positions on the left and right sides. They probably need to be pulled out of the main “rap” div to get that to work. […]

WP under Winblows

Sun November 21, 2004 in Art and Graphics