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[Ruben]

How in the world do you add a pattern to gimp? I'm using an apple computer. Thank you very much in advance!

[truefusion]

Assuming your personal settings are located in the same place as a Linux set-up, it should be located under ~/.gimp-2.<number>/patterns. (You may have to unhide these files.) After dumping your patterns in there, refreshing the patterns or restarting GIMP should show your new pattern in the patterns palette. Otherwise, you'll need someone who has the Mac OS to help you.

[Ruben]

Didn't work for me. Here is how I have it.

CONTENTS -> RESOURCES -> SHARE -> GIMP -> 2.0 -> PATTERNS

Is that right. It's there with .pat, but it won't show up.

[Ruben]

Heres the problem which took me too long to figure out. lol The file is not writable. Anyone know how to make it writable?

[truefusion]

Ruben, on Nov 16 2008, 01:26 PM, said:

Heres the problem which took me too long to figure out. lol The file is not writable. Anyone know how to make it writable?

For something like that i would have suspected readable instead. But if your system supports it, you can

CONSOLE

chmod 0644 /path/to/file

Or viewing the file properties in a file manager if the Mac OS file mananger allows it, to edit permissions.

[iGuest]

I can find it. Go to applications. Find "Gimp". Left-click on "Gimp" and then select "Show Package Contents".

Another Finder window opens up with a "Contents" file.  Click on it.

Click on the "Resource" file. 

Then click on the "share" file.

Click on the "gimp" file.

Click on the "2.0" file.

Last click on the "pattern" file and there they are!! Tah dah!!

 

-reply by Ruth