WordPress.com Forums » Tag: Gimp - Recent Posts http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/gimp WordPress.com Forums » Tag: Gimp - Recent Posts en Tue, 21 May 2013 11:23:19 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 timethief on "making a .pdf file visible" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/making-a-pdf-file-visible#post-826870 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:30:11 +0000 timethief 826870@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @joelhuntergun
You're welcome from me.

]]> joelhuntergun on "making a .pdf file visible" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/making-a-pdf-file-visible#post-826868 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:28:42 +0000 joelhuntergun 826868@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks everyone!

I thought of using the .jpg file method before, but I've just never got around to it. So it's good to know that it does work. As for the scrobd method... Smart thinking -but it's just not for me. :-) I don't want be forced to post all of my work through another site, just so I can post my work on MY site.

]]> dlager on "making a .pdf file visible" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/making-a-pdf-file-visible#post-823197 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:27:34 +0000 dlager 823197@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Here is an example in my post with both scribd and a picture for multiple options.:

http://echopen.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/to-do-list-a-simple-task-and-time-management-chart/

you can upload a large "screen shot" as an image and insert the thumnail. into your post. Click on the image or if the visitor have mouse hover preview ap, they can see "preview image".

With preview thumbnail(s) you would still have to add the text or thumbnail link to your pdf download separately.

you can also see in my example the scribd embed...

[opinion] personally , Now: I prefer using thumbnail previews and text links instead of the scribd embed , because the embeds take a lot more time to page load. [/opinion]

]]> dlw43 on "making a .pdf file visible" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/making-a-pdf-file-visible#post-823124 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:26:53 +0000 dlw43 823124@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The problem is that it doesn't look as clean as a .jpg file. There is extra formatting and words around the edges of the embedded Scribd file. And, if the viewer wants to save the file to their own hard drive, they have to join Scribd if they don't already belong, which is also free, but it's a hassle for one file. Even though I joined Scribd a couple weeks ago, I am vaguely but persistently uncomfortable about the underlying motives of Scribd as a concept, so I don't necessarily want to push that onto my viewers. (It's not that I have that many, but still).

]]> raincoaster on "making a .pdf file visible" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/making-a-pdf-file-visible#post-822944 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 04:51:08 +0000 raincoaster 822944@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I don't get the problem: Scribd is free.

]]> timethief on "making a .pdf file visible" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/making-a-pdf-file-visible#post-822880 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:09:34 +0000 timethief 822880@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @ludusnaturae
Brilliant! Thank you so much for posting this.

]]> ludusnaturae on "making a .pdf file visible" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/making-a-pdf-file-visible#post-822878 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:03:26 +0000 ludusnaturae 822878@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I do this:
I open the PDF file with GIMP and save it in image format, as .jpeg or .png. Then the created image file can be uploaded an inserted in a post as any other image file.
And the image on post can be linked to the PDF file on Media Library.

]]> timethief on "making a .pdf file visible" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/making-a-pdf-file-visible#post-822831 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:18:56 +0000 timethief 822831@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ There is no other means of making a PDF available within a blog post. You can either upload the pdf and provide a link, or you can upload the document to http://scribd.com, and use Scribd integration to display the document in your blog post.

]]> dlw43 on "making a .pdf file visible" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/making-a-pdf-file-visible#post-822823 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:03:30 +0000 dlw43 822823@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thank you. Just for my own information, is this my only option? (I'm not sure if this matters, but I have and intend to stay with the free version of WordPress.)

]]> timethief on "making a .pdf file visible" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/making-a-pdf-file-visible#post-822785 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:24:59 +0000 timethief 822785@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ For embedding and publishing an actual document into a post or page on your blog you can use Scribd.

]]> dlw43 on "making a .pdf file visible" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/making-a-pdf-file-visible#post-822758 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:47:39 +0000 dlw43 822758@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I would like to make a .pdf file visible on my blog.

Is this possible?

Thanks!

Donna

]]> dearmariana on ".PNG Background Transparency Not Working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/png-background-transparency-not-working#post-554995 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:00:33 +0000 dearmariana 554995@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I've got backgrounds showing up on PNG's only when I view from Internet Explorer. In Firefox and Safari it's fine.

Help!

http://www.30su30.com

]]> thesacredpath on ".PNG Background Transparency Not Working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/png-background-transparency-not-working#post-547883 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:18:34 +0000 thesacredpath 547883@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You are welcome.

]]> raiseyourspirits on ".PNG Background Transparency Not Working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/png-background-transparency-not-working#post-547836 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:57:08 +0000 raiseyourspirits 547836@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thank you! I forgot to feather the edges on that first picture, so it looks a bit choppy.

I was debating weather I liked having captions or not anyway, so this is good news.

Thanks again!

]]> thesacredpath on ".PNG Background Transparency Not Working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/png-background-transparency-not-working#post-547738 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 06:47:38 +0000 thesacredpath 547738@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @raiseyourspirits, take a look here on a dark background at the first three images on your main page: http://allthekingshorses.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/spirits/ . The first one had a less than perfect job done of cutting it out from the background. The other two are clean.

The faint white you are seeing around the image is due to the caption. If you do not use captions, that will go away. Each theme borders and handles captions differently. In some the background put behind the image and caption is even more pronounced.

To get ride of the background the theme puts in when captions are used, you would have to have the CSS upgrade and some CSS editing experience.

]]> raiseyourspirits on ".PNG Background Transparency Not Working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/png-background-transparency-not-working#post-547729 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:37:27 +0000 raiseyourspirits 547729@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Maybe I am just having creators syndrome: worrying about imperfections that nobody will notice unless they are looking for it.

I would still like to know, though, in case I change my theme to something without a white background.

]]> timethief on ".PNG Background Transparency Not Working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/png-background-transparency-not-working#post-547726 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:22:35 +0000 timethief 547726@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ It's extremely faint and frankly I don't think many people will even notice it.

]]> raiseyourspirits on ".PNG Background Transparency Not Working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/png-background-transparency-not-working#post-547725 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:22:19 +0000 raiseyourspirits 547725@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The issue is, I want to change my theme, possibly with a different color of background, and I want to be able to use my images regardless of theme, and I want the background to always be transparent, so that faint outline is quite visible unless I stick with my current, white background.

]]> raiseyourspirits on ".PNG Background Transparency Not Working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/png-background-transparency-not-working#post-547723 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:21:05 +0000 raiseyourspirits 547723@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I just tried that, and I used "full size" so that the image was exactly as I had it in GIMP. It still is not working.

]]> timethief on ".PNG Background Transparency Not Working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/png-background-transparency-not-working#post-547721 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:18:46 +0000 timethief 547721@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes I see an extremely faint outline.

]]> raiseyourspirits on ".PNG Background Transparency Not Working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/png-background-transparency-not-working#post-547720 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:17:36 +0000 raiseyourspirits 547720@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Just go to the Glenmorangie 18 post (it's either the first or second post)
http://raiseyourspirits.wordpress.com/

You can see there is a faint white border around my image.

I am going to try what thesacredpath said, and I will comment afterward.

]]> thesacredpath on ".PNG Background Transparency Not Working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/png-background-transparency-not-working#post-547683 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 03:12:54 +0000 thesacredpath 547683@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Can we get a link to that post? We can't really help till we actually can look at he source code and stuff.

]]> icyblackberrytonic on ".PNG Background Transparency Not Working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/png-background-transparency-not-working#post-547679 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 02:48:38 +0000 icyblackberrytonic 547679@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi, I am having the exact same issue and I went back and prepared the image to the exact size that wordpress was resizing it too. I am tring to insert it into a post. I am using Photoshop and converting to .PNG.b Thanks for your help!

]]> thesacredpath on ".PNG Background Transparency Not Working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/png-background-transparency-not-working#post-547662 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 01:58:10 +0000 thesacredpath 547662@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ We need a link to where this is happening.

If the image is going into a post, and the image is resized by wordpress, then the transparency is stripped out. You have to prepare the image for the exact size that is being inserted into the post or wherever or it will not retain the transparency.

]]> raiseyourspirits on ".PNG Background Transparency Not Working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/png-background-transparency-not-working#post-547634 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:42:33 +0000 raiseyourspirits 547634@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ So, I have seen a few threads about various transparency issues, but I can't find one that addresses my issue specifically.

1) I use GIMP 2.6 to make an image's background transparent, and then I save it as a .png.
2) I then insert it into my post
3) I go to look at my post, and although it's faint, I can still see the image outline. (If I change my theme there is a white box around my images).

Why won't wordpress recognize my images as having a transparent background?

]]> raul008 on "Scrolling Jpeg - Is it possible?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/scrolling-jpeg-is-it-possible#post-301010 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:10:58 +0000 raul008 301010@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Look an example:


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]]> themarchingjester on "Scrolling Jpeg - Is it possible?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/scrolling-jpeg-is-it-possible#post-301008 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:02:53 +0000 themarchingjester 301008@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hang on there. It just occurred to me. What exactly did you mean by 2x2? Is it 2 pictures followed immediately by another 2 pictures that ISN'T divided by a gap? Sort of like 4 squares inside a bigger square? How do you do that? I'm currently using irfanView's 'Create Panaroma Image' to make those 1x5 images.

Or did you just mean 1x2 on the first line followed by another 1x2? There would be a line between these pictures, which I would prefer not to have.

Oh, that's your name? Cooool.

]]> panaghiotisadam on "Scrolling Jpeg - Is it possible?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/scrolling-jpeg-is-it-possible#post-299180 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:37:45 +0000 panaghiotisadam 299180@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You're welcome.

That's exactly the point: I don't think having to scroll to see groups of pics is user-friendly when these pics can easily be arranged in a way that involves no scrolling.

(pan...etc. is my real name and surname.)

]]> themarchingjester on "Scrolling Jpeg - Is it possible?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/scrolling-jpeg-is-it-possible#post-299060 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:43:47 +0000 themarchingjester 299060@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks panaghiotisadam. (may I ask what that means haha)

Well I guess professional isn't the word. I just wanted something more 'user-friendly' and involves the reader to scroll and be engaged with the blog :O

Hmm at 440 I'd definitely need to make it 2x2 instead of 1x4 or 1x5 (as in some of the images I have).

]]> panaghiotisadam on "Scrolling Jpeg - Is it possible?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/scrolling-jpeg-is-it-possible#post-297753 Sun, 18 Jan 2009 06:05:05 +0000 panaghiotisadam 297753@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Or editing your images to adapt to the look of the new theme (e.g. 2x2 rows instead of 1x4).

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