New graphics program ... wonderful!

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You can try Google. One of the 4,820 hits might get you there. :)
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I did try google Dszady but the links I tried were either an earlier
version (2 as opposed to 2.6) or they went to winsite - which is where
the author's link goes to - and it didn't work for me.

I thought I'ld wait & see if anyone else was having problems - taking
the lazy way out as usual :)

--

John Latter

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http://members.aol.com/jorolat/sac.html

Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html
 
I thought I'ld wait & see if anyone else was having problems - taking
the lazy way out as usual :)
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Downloading now...in fact, it just finished.

--
Tiger

"Zero is where the fun starts
There is too much counting everywhere else."
- Hafiz
 
I did try google Dszady but the links I tried were either an earlier
version (2 as opposed to 2.6) or they went to winsite - which is where
the author's link goes to - and it didn't work for me.

I thought I'ld wait & see if anyone else was having problems - taking
the lazy way out as usual :)
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I get it every time. (Firebird)
Can you get this far: <http://www.oriens-solution.com/>
Did you try to copy n' paste?
 
Subject: Re: New graphics program ... wonderful!
From: dszady (e-mail address removed)
Date: 18/10/2003 08:08 GMT Daylight Time
Message-id: <[email protected]>



I get it every time. (Firebird)
Can you get this far: <http://www.oriens-solution.com/>
Did you try to copy n' paste?
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Yes I did, at first I thought it might be something to do with using Opera but
IE6 was just the same - but whatever was wrong has fixed itself! :)

I saw Tiger's post, 'bout him just about finishing his download, so I gave it
another try & I'm now downloading from somewhere in Poland (yay!)


Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to
homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect.
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html
 
Sat, 18 Oct 2003 02:14:12 GMT
Lord Possum ha scritto:
Oriens-Enhancer 2.6 is freeware:

This is perhaps the most comprehensive graphics
manipulation project that I've seen ... including GIMP,
Pixia, etc.
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It looks very interesting.
Since it says "not tested under XP" and I'm on dial-up, can anyone running
Windows XP tell me if all it's OK?
Thanks,
 
John Latter said:
Looks interesting but I can't seem to get a download link which works
:(
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I had to submit to dealing with winsite, in permissive mode, redirect &
scripting on. Here's a link I managed therein to scrape up from them:

ftp://ftp.us.es/Mirror/www.winsite.com/winxp/graphics/OriensEnhancerGOLD.msi

Do note the installer is msi. GRRROSSSSSSSSSSSS.

The MSI is probably also why the 11MB download. I have seen 200k programs
that are 2mb downloads when wrapped in the msi obscenity.

I'm just trusting that the program underneath makes this worthwhile.
 
It works but, ho hum. It's not worth the 11MB download. IMHO, that is.

Malu' wrote:
|| Sat, 18 Oct 2003 02:14:12 GMT
|| Lord Possum ha scritto:
||
||| Oriens-Enhancer 2.6 is freeware:
||
||| http://www.oriens-solution.com/enhancer/default.asp
||
||| This is perhaps the most comprehensive graphics
||| manipulation project that I've seen ... including GIMP,
||| Pixia, etc.
||
|| It looks very interesting.
|| Since it says "not tested under XP" and I'm on dial-up, can anyone
|| running Windows XP tell me if all it's OK?
|| Thanks,
|| --
|| Maria Luisa - 18/10/2003 10.44.31, here.
|| ))))) Tagline in stereo where available (((((
|| Now playing: nothing
 
It works but, ho hum. It's not worth the 11MB download. IMHO, that is.

I have used it on WinXP...no apparent problems, it works OK but I have to
agree with Little Mac, it really is ho-hum especially if one is used to
using one or two of the big boys. However, as a freeware for someone wanting
to do simple work and learn from there, it should suffice.

Stoney

Malu' wrote:
|| Sat, 18 Oct 2003 02:14:12 GMT
|| Lord Possum ha scritto:
||
||| Oriens-Enhancer 2.6 is freeware:
||
||| http://www.oriens-solution.com/enhancer/default.asp
||
||| This is perhaps the most comprehensive graphics
||| manipulation project that I've seen ... including GIMP,
||| Pixia, etc.
||
|| It looks very interesting.
|| Since it says "not tested under XP" and I'm on dial-up, can anyone
|| running Windows XP tell me if all it's OK?
 
LittleMac said:
Malu' wrote:
|| Since it says "not tested under XP" and I'm on dial-up, can anyone
|| running Windows XP tell me if all it's OK?
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It works but, ho hum. It's not worth the 11MB download. IMHO, that is.
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Well, I'm already committed, but it looks like that 11MB is going to take
me a couple of days. I'm at a motel - bad pbx phone system - dreadful for
modems. My download manager says only 6 hrs left, but might be longer
seeing how the ftp server has been getting disgusted with my connect speed
and keeps trying to kick me off. (You broadband folks, don't even talk to
me!)

What really gets me is that the massive size is due to the developer having
got conned into using that obnoxious-disgusting-obese MSI installer.
 
task said:
Malu' wrote:
|| Lord Possum wrote:
||
||| Oriens-Enhancer 2.6 is freeware:
||
||| http://www.oriens-solution.com/enhancer/default.asp
||
||| This is perhaps the most comprehensive graphics
||| manipulation project that I've seen ... including GIMP,
||| Pixia, etc.
||
|| It looks very interesting.
|| Since it says "not tested under XP" and I'm on dial-up, can anyone
|| running Windows XP tell me if all it's OK?

It works but, ho hum. It's not worth the 11MB download. IMHO, that is.

I have used it on WinXP...no apparent problems, it works OK but I have to
agree with Little Mac, it really is ho-hum especially if one is used to
using one or two of the big boys. However, as a freeware for someone wanting
to do simple work and learn from there, it should suffice.
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If it doesn't have an adjustable cropping frame, then it's not worth
the download. Don't know if this is the case though, since I can't
access the "Online Help Manual and Technical Documentation". Keep
getting this:

"The daily bandwidth limit for this customer has been exceeded. Try
again after midnight, EST."

--
Regards from John Corliss
alt.comp.freeware F.A.Q.:
http://www.ccountry.net/~jcorliss/F.A.Q./FrameSet1.html
Note that I can't see any of Andy Mabbett's troll posts
because I have him killfiled.
 
...they went to winsite - which is where
the author's link goes to - and it didn't work for me.
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John,
Do you happen to run Proxomitron? I have found that I can not dl from
Winsite unless I set Proxo to "Bypass". Apparently, Winsite will not
redirect to the download until after their ad loads, which Proxo
prevents from happening.
 
John,
Do you happen to run Proxomitron? I have found that I can not dl from
Winsite unless I set Proxo to "Bypass". Apparently, Winsite will not
redirect to the download until after their ad loads, which Proxo
prevents from happening.
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I never thought of that - thanks John! (although I've downloaded the
program now, your reminder will no doubt be of help in the future
too!)

--

John Latter

The 'Socially Acceptable Violence' website:
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/sac.html

Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html
 
Malu' said:
It looks very interesting.
Since it says "not tested under XP" and I'm on dial-up, can anyone running
Windows XP tell me if all it's OK?
Thanks,
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It is a ....Visual Basic 5 program. :(

OCX terror-storm. Eleven OCX's it shoved into the system directory! Plus a
few more of those in its directory, that accounted for the majority of the
=>1600+ registry entries<= the install added.

Even just a few OCX's for an app and you get a ton of stuff snaked through
the classes root key, with their clsid, interface, typelib entries... very
messy and ugly IMO. And this prog has more damned ocx's than I've had to
witness in a long time.

The install also did this thing similar to what I unfortunately do see
routinely, but dislike each time. Changed a whole bunch of registry entries
to mark everything down from vb6 to vb5. In this case, though, particularly
high number: more than 80 keys it changed down.

That large set of changes must have been why TUN crashed every time I tried
to use it to uninstall this thing. (Finally I just reverted to the copy of
the registry I'd saved before running the install.)

And this is without even going into all the extra files and regentries
that MSI always tries to add. The OCX hell especially, and changing all the
vb file reg values, then adding MSI to the offense, I give this app a D- at
best as far as character, lack of respect for people's computers.

Graphics features? Who knows. I did run it twice. Crashed my machine. Very
quick - my resources monitor wasn't able to warn me in time. So I tried
running it after a fresh reboot, where my startup values are in the high
90s. Just launching it then, without even a file loaded, that shot me
down to 34/34/46. Woah! Ok, I only have 192mb RAM & use w98, but what's
this thing take? I mean, what if one has a few big image edits going on?

I'll leave this prog for the rest of you. I'm going to go interact with a
few dignified, gentle Borland programs to console me after the ordeal.
 
Thanks to Karen for the definitive workout. Although the program
is freeware and it works, it apparently is an inexperienced project
with a heavy resources demand. This may explain why it was so hard
to find anymore on many websites. Just too derned much garbage
saddled upon your registry. Lot of nice features, though. Tsk .. too bad.

Praetorian
- - - -
 
It is a ....Visual Basic 5 program. :(

OCX terror-storm. Eleven OCX's it shoved into the system
directory! Plus a few more of those in its directory, that
accounted for the majority of the =>1600+ registry
entries<= the install added.

Even just a few OCX's for an app and you get a ton of stuff
snaked through the classes root key, with their clsid,
interface, typelib entries... very messy and ugly IMO. And
this prog has more damned ocx's than I've had to witness in
a long time.

The install also did this thing similar to what I
unfortunately do see routinely, but dislike each time.
Changed a whole bunch of registry entries to mark
everything down from vb6 to vb5. In this case, though,
particularly high number: more than 80 keys it changed
down.

That large set of changes must have been why TUN crashed
every time I tried to use it to uninstall this thing.
(Finally I just reverted to the copy of the registry I'd
saved before running the install.)

And this is without even going into all the extra files and
regentries that MSI always tries to add. The OCX hell
especially, and changing all the vb file reg values, then
adding MSI to the offense, I give this app a D- at best as
far as character, lack of respect for people's computers.

Graphics features? Who knows. I did run it twice. Crashed
my machine. Very quick - my resources monitor wasn't able
to warn me in time. So I tried running it after a fresh
reboot, where my startup values are in the high 90s. Just
launching it then, without even a file loaded, that shot me
down to 34/34/46. Woah! Ok, I only have 192mb RAM & use
w98, but what's this thing take? I mean, what if one has a
few big image edits going on?

I'll leave this prog for the rest of you. I'm going to go
interact with a few dignified, gentle Borland programs to
console me after the ordeal.
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And I thought E-Sword was bad.
Dood, thanx for the post, and sparing me!
My condolences.
It reffirms the way I feel.
 
Sat, 18 Oct 2003 09:51:27 -0700
omega ha scritto:
It is a ....Visual Basic 5 program. :(
Click to expand...
OCX terror-storm. Eleven OCX's it shoved into the system directory! Plus a
few more of those in its directory, that accounted for the majority of the
=>1600+ registry entries<= the install added.
Click to expand...
Even just a few OCX's for an app and you get a ton of stuff snaked through
the classes root key, with their clsid, interface, typelib entries... very
messy and ugly IMO. And this prog has more damned ocx's than I've had to
witness in a long time.
Click to expand...
The install also did this thing similar to what I unfortunately do see
routinely, but dislike each time. Changed a whole bunch of registry entries
to mark everything down from vb6 to vb5. In this case, though, particularly
high number: more than 80 keys it changed down.
Click to expand...
That large set of changes must have been why TUN crashed every time I tried
to use it to uninstall this thing. (Finally I just reverted to the copy of
the registry I'd saved before running the install.)
Click to expand...
And this is without even going into all the extra files and regentries
that MSI always tries to add. The OCX hell especially, and changing all the
vb file reg values, then adding MSI to the offense, I give this app a D- at
best as far as character, lack of respect for people's computers.
Click to expand...
Graphics features? Who knows. I did run it twice. Crashed my machine. Very
quick - my resources monitor wasn't able to warn me in time. So I tried
running it after a fresh reboot, where my startup values are in the high
90s. Just launching it then, without even a file loaded, that shot me
down to 34/34/46. Woah! Ok, I only have 192mb RAM & use w98, but what's
this thing take? I mean, what if one has a few big image edits going on?
Click to expand...
I'll leave this prog for the rest of you. I'm going to go interact with a
few dignified, gentle Borland programs to console me after the ordeal.
Click to expand...

You've spared me a lot of trouble, Karen, thank you very much.
 
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