[scribus] using Gimp to resize photographs is very poor design

[Jeffrey Silverman]

How about a very simple image editor that does not have all the
features of GIMP or CinePaint, but will do stuff like lossless
rotations and "good quality" image resizing or adjustment of an images
internal DPI metadata?

i.e. Does anyone have any recommendations on a simple but good image
editor that can take care of common tasks quickly? I know I could use
ImageMagick or NetPBM but a GUI is nice sometimes.

thanks, seeya

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:35 AM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:10:02 +0100
> Daniel Berlin <dan.btown at hotmail.de> dijo:
>
>>Use GIMP?
>>
>>Yes and No. For a color depth beyond 8 bit / channel, choose CinePaint,
>>which supports at least 16 bit / channel and provides secure color
>>management.
>
> I had never tried CinePaint before, so just now I installed it on my
> Fedora 11 x86_64 laptop from the Fedora repositories. It is version
> 0.22-1.
>
> It launches, but crashes immediately if I try to open a file or create
> a new file. Launching it from the command line throws about a dozen
> warning messages and errors, none of which I understand.
>
> I don't even use the Gimp very much for my work and I doubt I'd ever
> make use of the features that CinePaint has beyond what the Gimp
> offers. I just uninstalled CinePaint.
>
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