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tommyrot - Oct 11, 2008 5:25:50 pm PDT #7823 of 25501

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

The sound of a press conference in the '70s was a lot of cameras going shutter click, wind, shutter click, wind.

So really, all you need in the play is a character named "Camera" who says, "Shutter click, wind, shutter click, wind."

It's possible that, had I been sober, I might not have posted this....

§ ita § - Oct 11, 2008 6:19:23 pm PDT #7824 of 25501

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm looking for graphics apps for the Mac that aren't Photoshop. It seems there's a Gimp, but I can't see how to make it work. I downloaded from Sourceforge, but it tells me I need X11. I have X11--I've used it to play FreeCiv. And of course now when I try to run FreeCiv nothing happens, so I suspect I'm memfaulting on something obvious.

Help?

Gris - Oct 11, 2008 7:04:26 pm PDT #7825 of 25501

Hey. New board.

Here you go ita: [link]

No need for X11 with that.

That said, if you have X11 it should be in your Utilities folder.

Connie Neil - Oct 11, 2008 7:13:56 pm PDT #7826 of 25501

brillig

I'm looking for a printer that may get use of a page a week if that. What would be a good one where we're not going to have to replace an ink cartridge after every tenth page?

§ ita § - Oct 11, 2008 7:16:16 pm PDT #7827 of 25501

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

if you have X11 it should be in your Utilities folder.

It's there. But double-clicking on it does nothing I can see. And that version tells me I don't have X11 either.

§ ita § - Oct 11, 2008 7:49:10 pm PDT #7828 of 25501

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Okay, found my problem:

Oct 11 21:10:47 Cass crashdump[338]: X11 crashed
Oct 11 21:10:47 Cass crashdump[338]: crash report written to: /Users/ita/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/X11.crash.log

and X11.crash.log says:

Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11
Reason: image not found

Not that that tells me what to do next. I guess I gotta hunt down my install discs. AGAIN.

Gris - Oct 11, 2008 8:02:57 pm PDT #7829 of 25501

Hey. New board.

Really? Gimp.app doesn't open X11 in a window and doesn't pull up an X11 toolbar. It looks just like a normal Mac app. Maybe it uses X and is magically invisible... cool!

§ ita § - Oct 11, 2008 8:18:59 pm PDT #7830 of 25501

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

And I can't find a Tiger disc anywhere...maybe it's time to buy Leopard.

amych - Oct 12, 2008 3:16:08 am PDT #7831 of 25501

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

It's less feature-ful than the Gimp, so it might not be what you need, but take a look Seashore.

le nubian - Oct 12, 2008 5:24:31 am PDT #7832 of 25501

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

connie,

if you print that infrequently, you are going to run into problems with most printers. Inkjet dry up if they don't get regular use - at least in my experience. And by regular use, you should do 3 or so pages a week without fail.

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