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- <td align="left">2006-07-27</td>
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- The <span class="guimenuitem">Open Location</span> dialog lets you load an
- image from a network location, specified by a URI, in any of the formats
- that <acronym class="acronym">GIMP</acronym> supports.
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- <span lang="en" xml:lang="en">Activate Command</span>
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- You can access to this command from the Toolbox menubar or the
- image menubar through
- <span class="guimenu"><span class="accel">F</span>ile</span> → <span class="guimenuitem">Open <span class="accel">L</span>ocation…</span>.
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- <b>Figure 15.29. 
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- The “<span class="quote">Open Location</span>” dialog window
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- <p>The most typical schemes to open images with are:</p>
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- <span class="term">file://</span>
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- <p>to open an image from a local drive</p>
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- You can omit the “<span class="quote">file://</span>” prefix and open images
- simply by putting an absolute or relative path and filename in
- here.
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- The default base directory for relative paths depends on your
- operating system. It is typically
- <code class="filename">/home/<username>/</code> on Linux,
- <code class="filename">
- C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\My
- Images\
- </code> on Windows and
- <code class="filename">/Users/<username>/</code> on Mac OS X.
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- <span class="term">ftp://</span>
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- <p>to open an image from a ftp server</p>
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- <span class="term">http://</span>
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- When you are visiting an Internet site, you can right-click on
- an image and choose “<span class="quote">Copy link address</span>”
- in the drop-down menu. Then paste it in the
- “<span class="quote">Open Location</span>” dialog to open it in GIMP.
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- Even if this command makes it very easy to grab images from
- websites:
- <span class="emphasis"><em>
- Please respect the copyright! Images, even if published on the
- Internet are not always free to be used for you.
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