Unreadable menus

[martinsykeshaas]

Hi there,

I've been trying to run GIMP 2.4.5. on Vista but when opening all the
menus are unreadable. I'm running Vista. Any ideas?
This is what I see: http://i31.tinypic.com/mue7up.gif

Cheers

[Michael Schumacher]

martinsykeshaas wrote:

> I've been trying to run GIMP 2.4.5. on Vista but when opening all the
> menus are unreadable. I'm running Vista. Any ideas?
> This is what I see: http://i31.tinypic.com/mue7up.gif

My guess would be that the language of your system is set to one with a
rather incomplete translation of GIMP, and that you're lacking a font
for this language.


HTH,
Michael

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[Greg-123]

--- martinsykeshaas <sykeshaas99@...> wrote:
> I've been trying to run GIMP 2.4.5. on Vista but when opening all the
> menus are unreadable. I'm running Vista. Any ideas?

Dump Vista?


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[Tor Lillqvist]

As your e-mail address is in.il, your locale is probably set to Hebrew
or Arabic (and the screenshot indeed confirms that it is a RTL
language that fails to display), and GIMP thus wants to show its UI in
that language. But then you use a font that doesn't cover Hebrew or
Arabic.

There are several ways around the problem. The least intrusive is to
simply run GIMP in English instead. For instance, start GIMP with a
two-line .bat file that sets the LANG environment variable to en and
then starts GIMP. Or just uninstall GIMP and reinstall it without the
localisations. Or just remove the share\locale folder from GIMP's
installation.

A bit more intrusive (affecting other apps, too) is to change your
locale in the Control Panel's Regional and Language Options to English
or whatever.

Or then you could change the font that GIMP uses when you use the
ms-windows theme engine, it's one of the fonts in Display
Properties:Appearance:Advanced. Choose some font that covers Hebrew
(or Arabic).

Or you could even just stop using the ms-windows theme engine.

--tml

[Tor Lillqvist]

> Dump Vista?

His problem is hardly Vista specific.

--tml

[Greg-123]

--- Tor Lillqvist <tml@...> wrote:
> > Dump Vista?
>
> His problem is hardly Vista specific.

Your point?  ;)


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[Tor Lillqvist]

> Your point?  ;)

That your reply was hardly useful?

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[Greg-123]

--- Tor Lillqvist <tml@...> wrote:
> > Your point?  ;)

> That your reply was hardly useful?

Obviously, you missed the HUMOR of the statement.  Loosen up, dude.


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[twostepyankee]

Hi everyone:

I'm enjoying this program and learning something new everyday from the
program itself as from the discussions here.  Now, I find myself with a
new dilemma.  Is there any way to save my files as jpegs which will not
always default to the gimp program?  

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

[Serr8d-2]

You control  what program opens which file type not by GIMP, but
(assuming you are using Windows) by Windows.

Open 'My Computer', then 'Tools', 'Folder Options', 'File Types'. You
will see a long list of file types. I use the simple program "Windows
picture and Fax Viewer", which gives a fast preview of your jpeg (or
whatever other visuals you want to see quickly).

You can add to the 'send-to' menu in Windows explorer (under your user
name in the "Documents and Settings" folder) to add functionality to
right-clicking on various files. If I decide a particular file needs
GIMPing,  I just right-click and 'send to' the workhorse.

--- In gimpwin-users@..., "twostepyankee"
<twostepyankee@...> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone:
>
> I'm enjoying this program and learning something new everyday from the
> program itself as from the discussions here.  Now, I find myself with
a
> new dilemma.  Is there any way to save my files as jpegs which will
not
> always default to the gimp program?
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>

[buralex]

  "twostepyankee" <twostepyankee@...> said on Mar 24, 2008 19:31
-0400 (in part):
> I'm enjoying this program and learning something new everyday from the
> program itself as from the discussions here. Now, I find myself with a
> new dilemma. Is there any way to save my files as jpegs which will not
> always default to the gimp program?
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
At some point (maybe in the install of the Gimp program) you must have
specified that Gimp is to be used if you double-click in Explorer on a
JPG file. Easiest way to fix that is to right-click on a JPG file and
select "Open With ...". If that entry isn't there I believe
shift+right-click will cause it to appear. It should show you the
programs that are currently installed that have registered as being able
to open JPG files. If the one you want (eg. Irfan View, MS Paint or
whatever you used to use before installing Gimp) is there click "Always
use this program to open this type of file" then select it. If not use
the [Browse ...] or [More ...] option to navigate to the desired program
and select it.

 From now on JPG's will open with that program if double-clicked in
Explorer.

Regards ... Alec -- buralex-gmail
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[Ron Ferguson]

----- Original Message -----
From: twostepyankee
To: gimpwin-users@...
Sent: 24 March 2008 23:31
Subject: [gimpwin-users] Another help question, please?


Hi everyone:

I'm enjoying this program and learning something new everyday from the
program itself as from the discussions here. Now, I find myself with a
new dilemma. Is there any way to save my files as jpegs which will not
always default to the gimp program?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.


This is a file association question.  Right click on the JPEG select "Open
With" and then the program you wish to use. Check the box saying "always
use........."

Ron Ferguson