Re: Newcomer w/ laundry list...

[Alfredo Mateus <almateus@globalsite.com.br>]

Jens Ch. Restemeier wrote:
> 
> Hi !
> 
> > > Question:  What is UF?, FM?  What other softare is there that is similar to FF?
> >
> > UF = ultimate filter
> 
> Not quite, the current name is "User Filter". Yes, I'm not very creative giving a name to my programs...
> 
I am quite sure there was an ultimate filter. Somebody can refresh my
memory on that?

> It is a clone of Filter Factory, to run FF-Filters on the GPL'ed
> graphics program "GIMP" (www.gimp.org), which runs on Unix/Linux, Win32 and OS/2. And it was the first program to work with FF-Filters after the original Filter Factory...
> 
How is the Gimp on windows doing? Is adobe worried yet?

> The current public version interprets the FF-filters, this results in a quite slow execution speed. I've got a few ideas to change this, but I'm too busy with work to do anything about it. What I have done is moving some code into a shared library, that may be used by other programs in the future. I've some weird ideas about letting a
> 'C'-compiler optimize the code.
> 
> Jens
> 
> P.S.: Alf: The system administration over here changed the mail-servers.
> I may need to re-subscribe.

Yes, here is what I got:  
        BOUNCE ff@seabrook.aurdev.com: Non-member submission from ["Jens
Ch. Restemeier" <jenschrr@mail.uni-bielefeld.de>]


Alf