Questions about opening / editing / saving images using image-editing applications.
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Extract images from pdf with larger margins
Hi I need to extract all the images from a book, the problem I have with pdfimages is that the output images are cropped (i.e. a graphic is missing the axis labels). Is there a way to get the images ...
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Gimp won't open PSD file: 'no such file or directory'
Trying to open a PSD file in Gimp, I get this message:
Opening '/home/neils/Downloads/file.psd' failed:
Error loading PSD file: No such file or directory
The terminal output reads:
(gimp:2785): ...
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How to add Callouts to an image using a software installed by default in Ubuntu?
What's the easiest way to add Callouts to an image given the capabilities of a default Ubuntu 12.04?
I've got Gimp 2.6 already present (although I am not suggesting it is present in a default ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 wallpaper problem when using two monitors
I am using two monitors, the main resolution is 1920x1080 and the secondary is 1440x900. Everything seems to work fine (with default drivers, fglrx crashes bad), besides windows opening in the wrong ...
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How to show images in normal size by default with Image Viewer
By default when I open an image it fits to the window size (scale it down). I have to hit the button "Show the image at its normal size" every time when I go to the Next/Previous image or open a new ...
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Downloading error “Could not retrieve the required disk image ”
When I try to download Ubuntu 12.04 using the Windows installer (Wubi) through a proxy server which requires proxy authentication, after I choose the Ubuntu installation size, username and password, ...
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Best pic size for skydome animated on a 1920x1080 monitor
I want my skydome animated background to look clean and crisp not smashed and stretched so I thought that the best way would to find the correct image size. So, what size would that be on my 1920x1080 ...
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Upgrade php5-gd on 12.04?
I'm working with the GD library for image manipulation, to which I need to create some transparent PNGs. Instead, I'm getting a black background. I've looked everywhere on how to generate a blank, ...
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How to save screenshots as JPG automatically?
I want to make all screenshots I take jpeg automtically -- not png. I am using Ubuntu 12.04.
Thanks a lot.
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Mount single partition from image of entire disk (device)
I made an image of my entire disk with
dd if=/dev/sda of=/media/external_media/sda.img
Now the problem is I'd like to mount an ext4 filesystem that was on that disk but
mount -t ext4 -o loop ...
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How to easily resize images?
I would like to know how to resize images in Ubuntu? what is the easiest tool for this?
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Displaying graphic files from Samsung android in Ububtu 13.04
When connecting my Samsung Galaxy S3 to Ubuntu 13.04, the phone is recognized OK and the file system is working. Picture files (like jpg, png...) cannot be seen as thumbnails and cannot be opened by ...
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Is there a command-line program that can output ascii art as an image?
Is there a command-line program that can convert an image to ascii art and then save that output as an image e.g. jpg or png?
To illustrate what I'm in need of, I want to convert the image below into ...
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Batch Processing tif images? Converting .tif to .jpeg
I'm trying to mass convert a handful of .tif files. I found phatch could look like a good candidiate but i'm running ubuntu 11.04. Looks like they don't have a .deb for my version.
Anyone have any ...
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unable to upload new header image
I am trying to upload header image but I am getting following error.
Unable to create directory /srv/www/wp-uploads/localhost/2013/05. Is its parent directory writable by the server?
but I my ...
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Which image viewer is able to show coordinates?
I need an image viewer to help me see the XY coordinates inside an image (mouse cursor position relative to top left corner of the image). Could somebody please recommend me one?
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Alternative image viewer
I dont really like EOG.
What other image viewers are available for Ubuntu 13.04 ?
I am using gwenview but it takes lot of time to load.
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Tagging files in Nautilus [duplicate]
I would like to be able to add tags to images files by right clicking in the image file and be able to search by tags directly in nautilus without using an app like shotwell.
Is there anyway to do ...
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I can't open .jpg files, what to do?
Recently, I extracted from an .iso file some pictures, but I can't see them. When I try to open .jpg files with Image Viewer, it shows me this error: "Error interpreting JPEG image file (Not a JPEG ...
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How to extract still images from VOB file
How can I extract still images (jpeg?) from a VOB video file?
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How to create images from iso for KVM?
Hi all :) I want to create a KVM image from an existing iso file (for glance on OpenStack), but i didn't find how to do it. Can you help me pleaaase ?
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Error interpreting JPEG image file (Not a JPEG… I can't open it! Hex editor file extrange
I can't open my .jpg files. It shows: Error interpreting JPEG image file (Not a JPEG file: starts with... I had found some similar problem but without resolving.
I tried various softwares but ...
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How do I create a restore disk?
I'm new to ubuntu and reinstalled 11.04 atleast 10 times already. Each time I reconfigure all my settings and end up breaking something. It is really annoying and would be much easier if I can save ...
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BMP C library to open and save image
Can anyone recommend me a C library for loading and saving .bmp images. I need to load the image, edit some bits, and then save it. I have found the DevIl library, but I can't find the way to use it ...
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How can I instruct Nautilus to pre-generate thumbnails?
I have a large library of PDF documents (papers, lectures, handouts) that I want to be able to quickly navigate through. For that I need thumbnails.
At the same time however, I see that the ...
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Is it possible to view WebP images in nautilus / photo program?
I've converted some images from jpeg to google's WebP image format, which reduces my images' size by about 90%!
The big problem is that WebP images can only be viewed with a web browser, not with ...
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Is there any remote browsing solution with images?
I need a browser for my Linux server. My server Google queries are banned. It asking for CAPTCHA, but I can`t write in w3m, cos I don't see the image.
Is there any solution for this?
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Browser does not load all graphics on websites, especially on facebook
unfortunatly my browser (google chrome) does not load all images. Everytime I visit facebook the browser does not load all images. I had that problem already on ubuntu 12.04, but 13.04 has got the ...
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image from webserver is not shown in web browser
I am new ubuntu and recently I install 'xampp 1.8.1' on my ubuntu 12.10. My problem is that image from server can not be shown. My code is
<div class="sideBlock unSung">
<h4>Unsung ...
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How to get/edit EXIF meta-data of multiple images?
I ran into big problem yesterday night.
I took out my old digital camera, and started using it without setting current date and time.
All photos clicked now have date as Jan 01, 2009
I want to ...
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Which app can I use for easily annotating pictures/screenshots?
Often I need to annotate (draw some arrows, lines, basic shapes like squares, ellipses etc and enter some text) on top of pictures (JPG, PNG images) and screenshots (again png images). I would also ...
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How do I set up a background Image for console in ubuntu
Some of you may know this from opensuse. There the console is able to have a background. Is Ubuntu also able to have a backround image outside the x window system?
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How to make a disk image and restore from it later?
I'm a new Linux user. I've reinstalled my Wubi from scratch at least ten times the last few weeks because while getting the system up and running (drivers, resolution, etc.) I've broken something (X, ...
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Firefox image background turned grainy
I've been tinkering a lot with the drivers for my Intel HD Graphics CPU - installing different drivers and activating SNA. So far without breaking anything.
The only change I've noticed is that the ...
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Take a picture from terminal
I want to be able to take a picture using the webcam from the terminal. this image then will be send to a specific directory. How can this be done.
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Is there a lightweight tool to crop images quickly?
I need to crop images often - photos, printscreens, etc., and loading gimp for such a simple task takes way too long. Can you recommend a more robust alternative?
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How to resize an image through the terminal?
I have Ubuntu 10.04. I have converted image through terminal using the following command:
convert myfigure.png myfigure.jpg.
But I want to resize the height and width of the converted image. Is ...
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How to optimize whole folder with jpegtran?
back in Windows I would use jpegtran program to process all of the images in a folder.
However, there doesn't seem to be an application in Ubuntu with UI for performing the same task. Obviously, I ...
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How do I change the bucket fill colour in Gimp Image Editor?
This has been irritating me for quite some time, Gimp has a lot of great functionalities but if it can't manage this very basic capability then I'll have to do settle with Pinta.
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How do I combine single page tif files into a multi-page tif?
I have a series of single-page .tif files and would like to transform them into a multipage .tif.
How do I do that?
Ubuntu 12.10
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cannot print pdf pages with images
When I try to print a PDF file that contains images, the printing stops just before the first page that contains an image. If the first page contains an image, only a single blank page is printed.
I ...
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Is there any possible way to recover JPG images from a specific period of time?
Yesterday, during data transmission to an external hard drive, all data has been lost due to unexpected HDD crash. I've tried to use PhotoRec for a specific partition, it retrieved over 50 000 images, ...
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Is there a quick way to convert camera raw files to DNG?
Before I switched from Windows to Ubuntu for my daily computing, I used Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom for processing photos from my DSLR. Adobe made it really straightforward to batch convert from ...
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Can I take an image of Login person after 3 login attempts fail?
IS there any way to take an image after 3 login attempts fail.and later i want shutdown system and before this i would like to block all ports so the person cant access the system thorough any ...
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Is there a CLI webcam image grabber that works with a video4linux2 device?
I've tried everything in
apt-cache search webcam |sort -u
and everything has some problem. Correcting any syntax mistakes, showing how to use a "GUI only" from the CLI or a good ...
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Is 12.10 avconv's image sequence support (img%03d.jpg) broken?
I'm using avconv version 0.8.5-6:0.8.5-0ubuntu0.12.10.1, and am trying to encode a sequence of PNGs into a video, using the wildcard format (avconv -f image2 -i img%d.jpg /tmp/a.mpg), found in both ...
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command line tool for smush.it?
Is there a command line tool for the smush.it webservice?
I know there is a jar that you can download. But i'm looking for something i can just install with the ubuntu package manager, aptitude.
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Is there an alternative to Adobe Fireworks?
I often have to make designs for internet-use. I have had Fireworks for years and it suits my purpose. These are the details I like in it:
Good tools for moderate image manipulation (cutting, ...
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Problems with Grub Customizer 3.0.4
I have had problems with Grub Customizer with 12.10. One of the problems is that the up and down arrow keys don't function when I add a background image. I recently had to reinstall Ubuntu because I ...
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Where can I find testing version of ubuntu in development [duplicate]
I am looking for testing version of Ubuntu 13.04, I have looked in this question Alternate ISO image for current unstable (alpha/beta) releases but the links in the answer did not show me the place to ...
