[Rawstudio-users] Can't make rawstudio work :(

[Anders Brander]

Hi,

On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 10:39 +1100, david wrote:
> Hello all, and congratulations on a great idea.
> 
> Sadly, I'm finding rawstudio doesn't really work at all, unless I'm
> doing something wrong.

I don't think you're doing anything wrong :(

> I'm using Ubuntu 6.10 and rawstudio version: 0.4.1-0ubuntu2
> 
> I import a folder of .NEF files and select one of them, which shows on
> the screen as expected. The image "shudders" continually. Initially I
> can resize it (zoom) but only once. After that zooming doesn't do
> anything.

Others have reported this problem too... Try setting zoom BEFORE loading
any photos.

> The slider controls all seem to do as expected. Any changes I make with
> the sliders do get exported (see below).
> 
> I attempted to export the file as .png after setting a path for the
> export folder. A file is created that is half the file size of the
> original (I would have expected it to be about four times as big!).

This is a known problem, please see:
http://bugzilla.rawstudio.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30

> Rawstudio now seems to freeze. top shows it as using between 60-95% CPU.
> I left it running over night, but it never reached the end of whatever
> it was doing :-(

I think this could be related to:
http://bugzilla.rawstudio.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78

> I try to select another image, but although it shows in the folder
> window as selected, the new image never appears in the display window.
> 
> I can't quit out of rawstudio, and have to kill the program manually.
> 
> It's a great pity. This is a program that fills a real need. Please let
> me know if I can help with testing. Unfortunately I don't have any
> programming skills.

You're always welcome to try our development version and give feedback.
Instructions here:
http://rawstudio.org/download.php

I think "sudo apt-get build-dep rawstudio" will install almost
everything needed to build it.

/andersb