[Gimp-user] Opening Pictures with Gimp

[buralex at gmail.com]

  Cal <us43137415 at yahoo.com> said on May 20, 2008 1:18 -0400 (in part):
>  on my computer (Windows XP
> Professional) several months ago, 
did you do it yourself or does "I had GIMP installed" mean you got 
someone else to do it?
> and the way it was
> formatted, every picture that I opened, always opened
> with GIMP, which was very handy.
> My hard drive became corrupted and I had to get a new
> one.
> When I re-installed GIMP, I could not find the
> necessary gateway to have picture open with GIMP
> automatically, and I need to have that option back.
I'm guessing you never saw the screen that allows you to specify what 
file associations given to GIMP?
Simplest way to do what you want is to reinstall Gimp but on the third 
screen where it asks:

    * Install now
    * Customize

Click Customize instead of Install Now.
After Select Destination Location and Selecting Components next screen 
will be: Select File Associations.
On that screen select all the file types you want opened by GIMP and 
then just continue with the installation.

Note: due to a "bug" in the installer double-clicking on a file in 
Explorer will open a new instance of GIMP. If you are comfortable 
editing the Registry this can be corrected. Otherwise:

    * you have to live with it,
    * drag-and-drop 2nd and subsequent files to GIMP on the taskbar,
    * create a batch file that calls gimp-win-remote with the correct
      parameters or
    * follow suggestion to use something like Faststone Viewer as a
      Graphics browser from which you actually open Gimp using
      gimp-win-remote.

Hope this helps ...
btw: when replying to gimp lists use "Reply all" and remove the personal 
e-mail and leave the group address. (Don't ask me why its done this way. 
Someone said that this is the way news lists SHOULD work but its the 
only one I subscribe to that does. :-X )

Regards ... Alec -- buralex-gmail
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