Gimp 2.8.4 - Mac and Windows

2-ton · **Posted:** Thu Feb 14, 2013 8:03 pm **(#21)**

so far, I have not had any issues with mcgimp 2.8.4 or the 2.9 beta

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

Thanks Partha. will keep the faith!! LOL

samj · **Joined:** May 09, 2012 **Posts:** 914

Bonjour,

Here is a portable version of Gimp 2.8.4 64bit (Windows) compiled by Partha who should be able to run 32-bit plugins.
Plugins can be added in \Gimp-2.8.4-portable64bit-Partha\Preferences\plug-ins
For testing I added CamoTruck-Net which is compiled in 32 bits.

http://aljacom.com/~gmic/Gimp-2.8.4-por ... Partha.zip
153 744 287 bytes

(version Gimp-2.8.4-portable64bit.zip is deleted and replaced with the new version)

partha · **Joined:** Mar 14, 2011 **Posts:** 998

Thanks Sylvie! I really appreciate it.

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

hi partha, I cant get 2.8.4 to pick up any of my extras like brushes, fonts, scripts, patterns, plug ins. I have tried removing and reinstalling and putting them in the correct place which is different to the previous versions of 2.8....got any ideas where I might be able to rectify this please...I dont have this problem with 2.9.

partha · **Joined:** Mar 14, 2011 **Posts:** 998

akky wrote:

hi partha, I cant get 2.8.4 to pick up any of my extras like brushes, fonts, scripts, patterns, plug ins. I have tried removing and reinstalling and putting them in the correct place which is different to the previous versions of 2.8....got any ideas where I might be able to rectify this please...I dont have this problem with 2.9.

Hi Pauline,

2-ton had this issue as well. Did you put all your brushes etc. in the following location - Your Home/Library/Application Support/GIMP/2.8/brushes etc.?

Let me know if that is not working.

Thanks,
Partha

2-ton · **Posted:** Sat Feb 16, 2013 1:46 am **(#27)**

Yeah, I did have that issue. What I did was copy them from where they were to the new mcgimp. the old mcgimp was in a slightly different path than this new one, so that must be why the new one didn't pick them up. I'm just guessing, lol. But it was pretty easy to copy/paste the files in groups.

samj · **Joined:** May 09, 2012 **Posts:** 914

Bonjour,

Information a little off topic...
Here Gimp version 2.9.1 Windows compiled by Partha.
This version can open plugins compiled in 32 bits.
Plug-in CamoTruckNet compiled in 32 bits is added.
G'MIC 1.5.5.0_beta compiled in 64-bit is also added.
This version replaces "Gimp-2.9-portable64bit.zip"

http://aljacom.com/~gmic/Gimp-2.9.1-por ... Partha.zip
111 067 868 bytes.

sallyanne · **Posted:** Sun Feb 17, 2013 1:26 am **(#29)**

looks like my "extra's" went over to this version. I am afraid if I delete the other version though it will delete them. Am I worrying for nothing? I put things in the applicable folders in the previous version I was using

Someone may have answer for me here too. I was able to put full gradient across a page by just stroking "after selecting the gradient" of course. Now I am not able, or have forgotten what I need to do.

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

partha wrote:

akky wrote:

hi partha, I cant get 2.8.4 to pick up any of my extras like brushes, fonts, scripts, patterns, plug ins. I have tried removing and reinstalling and putting them in the correct place which is different to the previous versions of 2.8....got any ideas where I might be able to rectify this please...I dont have this problem with 2.9.

Hi Pauline,

2-ton had this issue as well. Did you put all your brushes etc. in the following location - Your Home/Library/Application Support/GIMP/2.8/brushes etc.?

Let me know if that is not working.

Thanks,
Partha

Well, I am just about done with trying everything that I can think of with 2.8.4. Sorry partha but I cant get past first base with this. I have even deleted all GIMP files from my computer and emptied the trash to make sure it was all gone..used app zapper which gets rid of even any hidden files which may be lurking. Still cannot get it to load my extra brushes, or gradients, or an added scripts. Just the basic standard things which come with it....I can get them to show up and work however in the GOAT version and although I am happy to continue with this, I dont have the added advantage of GMIC...but will work round that for now.

partha · **Joined:** Mar 14, 2011 **Posts:** 998

sallyanne wrote:

looks like my "extra's" went over to this version. I am afraid if I delete the other version though it will delete them. Am I worrying for nothing? I put things in the applicable folders in the previous version I was using

If I understand correctly, you are worried that if you delete the other version, it's going to nuke your extras. Don't worry about that. McGimp does not do anything to your personal extras. If you wish to be extra cautious, please keep a copy of your stuff somewhere safe and just copy them over to ever new version.

You should be doing that anyway as a backup.

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Someone may have answer for me here too. I was able to put full gradient across a page by just stroking "after selecting the gradient" of course. Now I am not able, or have forgotten what I need to do.

partha · **Joined:** Mar 14, 2011 **Posts:** 998

akky wrote:

...
Well, I am just about done with trying everything that I can think of with 2.8.4. Sorry partha but I cant get past first base with this. I have even deleted all GIMP files from my computer and emptied the trash to make sure it was all gone..used app zapper which gets rid of even any hidden files which may be lurking. Still cannot get it to load my extra brushes, or gradients, or an added scripts. Just the basic standard things which come with it....I can get them to show up and work however in the GOAT version and although I am happy to continue with this, I dont have the added advantage of GMIC...but will work round that for now.

So, you copied all your stuff to [Your Home Folder]/Library/Application Support/GIMP/2.8 and it is not showing up? Please send/ add a screenshot of where you put your stuff.

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

Have sent an email partha

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

I just noticed that Gtk2 is sitting randomly somewhere it ought not to be and wonder if that has something to do with it.

partha · **Joined:** Mar 14, 2011 **Posts:** 998

akky wrote:

Have sent an email partha

I replied to it. See also the post above to 2-ton and to you.

2-ton · **Posted:** Sun Feb 17, 2013 9:55 am **(#36)**

this is what I did to get the new mcgimp to load up all my goodies...
I went to the folder that had all my added stuff, for example, my added brushes... users/myname/library/gimp/2.8/brushes. I copied all my added brushes in that folder and pasted them in...
users/myname/library/application support/gimp/2.8/brushes

You can probably also just go into gimp preferences and add the new paths to the folders. Either way, it just takes a bit of tweaking to get to all your goodies. I am not sure why there are different paths, but I would assume that is so you can have different versions of gimp on the computer at the same time and they won't fight with each other???

partha · **Joined:** Mar 14, 2011 **Posts:** 998

2-ton wrote:

this is what I did to get the new mcgimp to load up all my goodies...
I went to the folder that had all my added stuff, for example, my added brushes... users/myname/library/gimp/2.8/brushes. I copied all my added brushes in that folder and pasted them in...
users/myname/library/application support/gimp/2.8/brushes

That should be /Users/yourname/Library/Application Support/GIMP/2.8. On the Mac, upper case folders are different from lower case folders

Quote:

You can probably also just go into gimp preferences and add the new paths to the folders. Either way, it just takes a bit of tweaking to get to all your goodies. I am not sure why there are different paths, but I would assume that is so you can have different versions of gimp on the computer at the same time and they won't fight with each other???

Correct. 2.8 series will be in in its own section as will 2.9.

2-ton · **Posted:** Sun Feb 17, 2013 1:43 pm **(#38)**

heh, yes I was lazy with capital letters here and I did not even realize that on the mac it would make a difference!

Brogun · **Joined:** Apr 29, 2012 **Posts:** 110

Thank you for making this build available on win32.

I have 2.6.10 , your 2.8.2 and your 2.8.4 installed (great thanks to you for making so you can have multiple install, always annoyed me how the "official" builds removed your previous installs) .

I tested with painting a bit with the Brush tool on a 512x512 transparent new image.

- 2.6.10 is still as butter smooth and fast as lightning when painting

- 2.8.2 (from your website) performance is very good too.

- 2.8.4 (from your website) is really sluggish, not only the cursor lag behind your mouse moves, but much worse : so do the actual brush stroke, it's simply horrible.

Brogun · **Joined:** Apr 29, 2012 **Posts:** 110

I investigated a bit more.

I decided to give a try to the "semi official" (semi as i think i have read the GIMP devs never release a window version themselves) 2.8.4 release from there :
http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

As expected it removed my trusty 2.6.10 (but fortunately i backed up everything before so i can reinstall without a problem) while installing.

Then i launched that 2.8.4 and tested with the same condition painting.
And ... it's as smooth as your win32 build of 2.8.2 was.

I re-installed your build of 2.8.4 to see if by some oddity having installed the semi official 2.8.4 would have changed something, but no.
Your win32 build of 2.8.4 is still very sluggish when painting in the same condition as i tested.

Having absolutely no coding/compilling knowledge, i have no idea why it is happening, what is that different between your build and the semi official one that is responsible of this very noticable performance drop (that didn't happened on your win32 build of 2.8.2).