If it's the first time you've run GIMP, it may be indexing your fonts. This may take a few minutes to complete.

Most of the time, all fonts are embedded, rasterized, or outlines created to prevent font issues. But, if for some reason you are still having a problem, let me know and I will correct the issue or provide the font for you to install so you can see your work properly.Then all you need to do is unzip the file, drag & drop the fonts into your font folder, usually located within the Windows folder.

The "GNU Image Manipulation Program" (originally the General Image Manipulation Program) sired by Spencer Kimball & Peter Mattis. In their own words, "GIMP is our answer to the current lack of free (or at least reasonably priced) image manipulation software for Linux and UNIX in general." It is a raster editor, which means that it performs operations directly on the pixels that make up the image, and not a vector editor.

When the ambient relative humidity is high and the Touareg's air conditioner is engaged, cold air blows on the windshield causing the temperature of the glass to drop below the ambient dew-point. When this happens, condensation forms on the outside of the windshield. You can clear this condensation using the windshield wipers. Touareg owners have reported that this condition only occurs when cold air is directed through the large mesh vent in the middle of the dashboard.

The first solution to this problem is try to be patient. The converter can take a long time with some of the larger files, and will often times appear to hang when really it's doing it's job just fine,. Unfortunately, often times it will simply stop working without giving an error message or changing it's appearance. If you've feel this has happened try clicking the "Exit" button on the original screen, if the program has hung this will almost certainly stop it.

Answer: If you are on Unix, make sure the data or database partition is not NFS mounted. If the partition is NFS mounted, the counter might hang when it initiates file locking.

There are cases that require QuickTime to set the Video Settings to 'Safe Mode' In order to obtain maximum performance of the program follow these instructions: Double-click the 'My Computer' icon on your desktop and then double-click the 'Control Panel' icon. The Control Panel window will appear. When installing QuickTime with operating systems such as Windows® 2000 or Windows® XP, please ensure that you are logged in Windows® with an 'Administrator' level.

Delphi 2.0 returns error 1157 when it cannot find some part of CMPLIB32.DCL, such as the DLLs for TifIMG. The Setup program should put them in the /System directory. Delphi needs to find them when it loads CMPLIB32.DCL. Check SETUP.LOG in your TifIMG directory to see where the setup program put the DLLs. If you get this error, it is probably because you are using an old version and you should download a new version of the component.

When loading Solar Fire 4 you may (rarely) get a message about deleting the fonts ET Sans Serif, ET Astro and ET Astro Bold. Initially ignore this message by clicking OK. When Solar Fire starts after the installation has finished and you see the astrological glyphs at the bottom of the main screen, you're OK and can ignore that message.

A6): Many reports of "hanging" on entry have turned out to be reports of poor performance. Money may spend minutes doing whatever it does after entering a transaction. If you have waited a LONG time--this may be five minutes or more depending on your environment--and Money is not doing anything and is not using CPU (this is easy to tell on WinNT, 2000, and on XP) then you have a different problem. See "Why is Money so slow?" for more information on performance problems.

If your network does not have a DNS server, there is a wait of at least 4 minutes when you attempt to access a device through the web browser interface; the browser will appear to hang. Thereafter, performance remains sluggish. If you do have a DNS server, this is not a problem. To workaround this issue, add the IP address and alias of every device you want to manage to the file "drivers/etc/hosts".

The most common cause of a slow startup when trying to play a SkillSoft course is the speed of the Internet connection. Typically a SkillSoft course will take 1.5 minutes on a 56k-modem connection to start playing, and 15-20 seconds on a T1 to start playing. The startup times for a course can vary due to busy Internet Service Providers, or high levels of traffic on a T1 line.

Not really. It doesn't use the GNOME application framework. The only thing it has in common is GTK+. GIMP can optionally use gnome-vfs, allowing you to load and edit images from remote servers.

GTK was developed solely for GIMP, initially. Towards the end of the 0.99 development cycle in 1998, GTK was split from being bundled with GIMP to being a separately available library. See ancient history for some interesting tidbits from the GIMP perspective.

Yes. You can run xscanimage, the front end to SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy), either as a GIMP extension or in stand-alone mode. This supports Mustek and HP flatbed scanners, as well as the Connectix color QuickCam camera.

Yes. In either the system-wide gimprc file or your personal gimprc file, uncomment the line that includes install-colormap. If GIMP gives you a message similar to either of these when you try to start it: Xlib: extension "MIT-SHM" missing on display "198.51.29.58:0.0". or * WARNING **: XShmAttach failed! then you need to run it with the --no-xshm option. This happens for one of two reasons.

Any system capable of running Gnome 2, KDE 3.2, Windows 2000, Mac OS X and later versions should be able to run GIMP. GIMP's biggest appetite is for memory and how much you will need will depend on the how many images you are working with, their resolution, size, the number of layers you use and so on. As a general rule, more is better, but 128MB should be enough to be getting started with.

Use the elliptical select tool, hold down SHIFT key to constrain as circle, fill the selected area with new color, right click on selected area, choose SELECT, SHRINK, shrink selection by whatever number of pixels you want your circle width to be, right click again in selected area, choose EDIT, CUT. Voila, one beautifully antialased circle.

You need to copy the gtkrc file that comes with the GIMP source (in the top level directory) into $HOME/.gimp/gtkrc . As of 0.99.10, this should be recognized.

Some broken application placed a file named intl.dll to your Windows or Windows\System32 directory. Rename it, and GIMP will work fine.

Minimize the window and ignore it, as most of the warnings it displays are harmless, and GIMP will still work. This is usually caused by broken programs installing libraries to Windows\System32 directory. Most likely there's a bad version of intl.dll, libxml2.dll, xmlparse.dll or xmltok.dll in there. Rename or remove it, and GIMP should load fine.

When treating an ulcer, it is very important to off-load or take the pressure off the affected area. This can be done with special dressings to the foot, footwear such as removable walking boots, healing sandals, or half-shoes, as well as braces and casts. By off-loading the wound, you allow the body to help repair itself more quickly.