I have recently switched from Ubuntu to Mac and am having some trouble
getting GIMP working the way I need. I use pygimp and a Wacom tablet to
create a sort of digital white board when I teach. I use my pygimp
code to correctly number each slide as I lecture so that the slides are
useful to the students for review when I am done. Here is an example if
you are curious:
I
am using Python 2.7 for scipy, numpy, and other packages installed
using homebrew and pip. I am having a hard time getting GIMP installed
in OS X 10.8 that supports both Python 2.7 and pressure sensitivity. I
have tried two approaches. I downloaded a binary from here:
Download GIMP 2.8 on the gimp.org/downloads
page. It runs natively on OS X (i.e. not using X11) and it works
perfectly with pressure sensitivity on my Wacom tablet. The only
problem is that it seems to ship with Python 2.6, which is a bit dated
and not compatible with my other Python packages.
I also tried to build and install from source.
I have tried this two ways. The first was through homebrew. I am
able to compile correctly and it uses Python 2.7, but for reasons I
don't understand, it seems to build an X11 version. Again for reasons I
don't understand, pressure sensitivity does not work when I build this
way. The pen and tablet under the extended input configuration are
greyed out. They are set correctly, but the settings don't seem to be
respected.
I have also tried to just use homebrew to install
the dependencies and then build GIMP myself in other directory. This
keeps getting hung up on trying to build a test GTK+ file that fails
because it can't find gtk.h. gtk.h is in a homebrew Cellar folder and I
don't seem to be able to point the configure script to it correctly.
So, can someone point me to the best solution. If a
binary of GIMP 2.8 linked to Python 2.7 could easily be made available,
that would be great. If someone can help me build a version of GIMP
2.8 that runs natively using the Python from homebrew, that would also
work. I don't even mind setting up my own thing and compiling outside
of homebrew, but I would prefer to avoid installing all the dependencies
myself if possible. I would prefer to have GIMP run natively rather
than through X11, but if Python 2.7 and pressure sensitivity both
worked, I would be OK with that.
Thanks,
Ryan
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