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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: My 138 $ Amazon order ( for 6pm today ).
Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 11:07:40 -0400
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Andrzej Matuch wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On Tue, 14 May 2024 01:50:17 +0000, candycanearter07 wrote:
>
>> Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote at 21:43 this Thursday (GMT):
>>> On Thu, 09 May 2024 18:22:22 +0000, rbowman wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 09 May 2024 15:58:59 GMT, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> GIMP, for one. The interface is very confusing to anyone who's used
>>>>> better software.
>>>> 
>>>> If I ever used PhotoShop it was years ago so I can't compare GIMP
>>>> directly. I've only used GIMP for light editing of png icons but that
>>>> was enough to make me loathe it. If I had to do image editing more
>>>> than very rarely I'd be looking for a more usable tool.
>>>
>>> I use it from time to time to do some light editng or to simply convert
>>> a Webp file to a format that isn't total shite.
>> 
>> 
>> For simple conversions, imagemagick would probably be faster.
>
> Yeah, but I don't believe that it is available in Windows. 

I'm pretty sure it is. We used it in our project (circa 2010...)
to convert certain types of document (and OpenOffice/Libreoffice) for
converting other types.

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	does it take to screw in a light bulb?
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	can tell me how to do the gruntwork for him so he can take the
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