Loading libraries
Hazel Harrison
Please can someone help me over this. I tried to load the paper library, but
having finally located it in the folder and tried to open it appreared to be
empty. And then, when I hit the load library button in art materials
everything went strange and wobbly and finally froze altogether so that I
had to exit in the naughty way.
Help needed - am ignorant beginner
Hazel
David Gell
Hi Hazel,
Can you give us some more details such as the version of Painter you have
and the name of the papers library you are trying to open/load?
David
On 25/7/03 10:58 am, in article 3f215979$1_1@cnews, "Hazel Harrison"
Richard
Hazel...try this.
Loading a Paper Library
1. Press Ctrl+3 to access the Art Materials palette.
2. Open the Papers section.
3. Click on the Paper Pop Up Menu bar (“Basic Paper”).
4. Located at the bottom of the menu is the “Load Library” command.
Click on this and the Choose Papers dialog window will open. Navigate
to where you have your paper libraries stored.
5. Select the paper texture file you want and click the Open button.
Richard
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Try this: Get your Painter CD and locate the folder or sub-folder,
called Paper or Paper Textures ( all the paper files have the extension
"pap"), create a folder in your Painter folder, call it Papers or some
such, then copy the pap files from the cd to this new folder. Open
Painter, open a file or make a new one, then clik on Art Materials (you
are using Painter 6 or 7 I presume), Papers.... and that hard to see
little black arrow to drop down the menu where you can select Open
Library .... clik that, then in the dialog box, change to the drive and
folder where you have Painter, then select your new Papers folder... and
there you will have your Papers.... Clik any of the names and now you
are back in Painter with that set of papers loaded. Once you are
familiar with this, you should try using the Paper Mover to organize
your own paper files that would have your favorites in one place. Good luck.
Hazel Harrison
Dear David
thanks for yours. Tried to send a reply to you but got an errore message, so
here goes again.
Hi there
I'm using Painter 7, and am Ok for brushes, but would like a wider choice of
papers. For example, the laid pastel paper is quite nice but doesn't look
like any of the pastel papers I use in real life - and so on. I may be
STOOPID, indeed probably am, but can't either find the paper library (folder
seems to be empty) or load it.
Love to hear from you,
Hazel
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Irv Taylor
Try this: Get your Painter CD and locate the folder or sub-folder,
called Paper or Paper Textures ( all the paper files have the extension
"pap"), create a folder in your Painter folder, call it Papers or some
such, then copy the pap files from the cd to this new folder. Open
Painter, open a file or make a new one, then clik on Art Materials (you
are using Painter 6 or 7 I presume), Papers.... and that hard to see
little black arrow to drop down the menu where you can select Open
Library .... clik that, then in the dialog box, change to the drive and
folder where you have Painter, then select your new Papers folder... and
there you will have your Papers.... Clik any of the names and now you
are back in Painter with that set of papers loaded. Once you are
familiar with this, you should try using the Paper Mover to organize
your own paper files that would have your favorites in one place. Good luck.
David Gell
Hi Hazel,
Please also see the reply from Irv Taylor today.
Firstly, you are not stupid, but are a beginner. I've been using Painter for
several years, and still consider myself an intermediate.
When asking questions in general, it is very important to give as much
information as possible, including Painter version, platform (Mac or PC) and
operating system (XP home edition for example), and also as many details
about the problem you have.
As I still don't know the name of the paper library you are trying to load,
I will guess that the library file name that you are trying to load is
'Paper Textures' (Mac) or 'Painter.pap'? (PC). If this is the case, then
this is the default papers library, and the reason it won't load is because
it is already loaded.
To add more paper libraries, insert the Painter 7 CD2 and on this disk,
locate the the folder named 'Paper Textures' (or it's equivalent name on the
PC). Copy this folder to your hard drive. Inside the folder, you will see
many paper libraries, any of which may be loaded into Painter (via. the
'Load Library' option in the Papers section of the Art Materials Palette.
One important note. Some or all of the extra PC resources on CD2 may be
'read only'. To remove a 'read only' attribute, right click on the file or
folder and select 'Properties', then uncheck the 'read only' box. You will
need to do this before the library can be loaded in Painter (assuming the
'read only' attribute was previously assigned).
Best of luck,
David
Be sure the files aren't Read Only. If they are, you have to change the
property. (You do that with a right-click on the file name > Properties
> uncheck Read Only. You can select an entire folder to do at once.)
On 31/7/03 6:14 pm, in article 3f294a55_1@cnews, "Hazel Harrison"
Hazel Harrison
Richard
Thanks - it works up your Stage 4 but disaster thereafter. My pap. textures
are stored on Painter 7 CD2. So found them OK but was working blind, as I
couldn't find a way of previewing individual papers. Thus took a chance and
loaded something called 'plaid'. Then found I'd lost all my normal papers,
so tried to delete under Paper mover and got the message 'Clobber Source'.
Having no idea what this meant, clicked on OK but found I was locked in.
Any ideas please - I'd really like to have my normal papers back. Being
deprived of them has if made me value them more, and I think the others are
a bit on the OTT side anyway.But what can Clobber Source possibly mean? This
happened to me in Painter Classic too.
Hazel
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What OS are you using? Clobber source sound like Mac thing.
Any way try this...
Go to where you installed Painter..delete the Painter.pap file.
Go to the Painter 7 CD 1 disk. The first folder you will see is
"Default Content File". In this folder is the original painter files.
Drag a copy of the Painter.pap file into your Painter install folder.
Right click on it and select Properties from the menu. Change the
Read Only attribute and start painter
All should be back to normal.
Richard
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