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The GIMP: The GNU Image Manipulation Program
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This is version 1.3, the developers version of The GIMP. Only use it if you
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are brave and curious and want to participate development towards the next
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stable release version 1.4. This is a developers version. We know it has bugs
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and it might not even compile. You have been warned!
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Some features that were present in GIMP 1.2 are disabled or not even included
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in this release. The perl bindings as well as all the perl scripts are not any
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longer included in this source tree. They have been moved into its own module
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called gimp-perl and await being porting to GIMP-1.3 and GTK+-2.0.
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The new text tool is only halfway done and various other tools and functions
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are broken. Almost everything is under construction. Don't even think about
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using this for daily work. If you are a software distributor, dont' dare to
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ship this package to innocent users.
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For installation instructions, see the file INSTALL.
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1. Web Resources
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The GIMP's home page is at:
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http://www.gimp.org/
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Please be sure to visit this site for information, documentation, tutorials,
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news, etc. All things GIMP-ish are available from there.
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The automated plug-in registry is located at:
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http://registry.gimp.org/
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There you can get the latest versions of plug-ins using a convenient
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forms-based interface.
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The latest version of The GIMP can be found at:
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http://www.gimp.org/download/
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2. Mailing Lists
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We have several mailing lists dedicated to GIMP user and development
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discussion. There is more info at
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https://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/<listname>
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substituting <listname> for "gimp-announce", "gimp-user", "gimp-win-user", or
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"gimp-developer" (without the quotes, of course) depending on the list you
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want to subscribe to. Links to the mailing list archives can be found at the
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same addresses as given above.
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Gimp-announce is a low-traffic list with announcements about new releases of
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GIMP and plug-ins. Gimp-user is a mailing list dedicated to user problems,
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hints and tips, discussion of cool effects, etc. Gimp-developer is oriented
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to GIMP core and plug-in developers. Most people will only want to be
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subscribed to gimp-user. If you want to help develop The GIMP, the
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gimp-developer mailing list is a good starting point.
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There are two mailing lists dedicated to the Win32 port, "gimpwin-users" and
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"gimpwin-dev". Especially the latter also carries traffic about the GTk+ port
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to Win32 in general. To subscribe, send an empty message to
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gimpwin-users-subscribe@egroups.com
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or
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gimpwin-dev-subscribe@egroups.com
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respectively. You can also use the web interface at
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http://www.egroups.com/group/gimpwin-users/ and
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http://www.egroups.com/group/gimpwin-dev/
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Note that as these mailing lists are hosted on egroups.com, the messages from
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the list contain relatively unintrusive and easily ignored advertisements at
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the end. But if you are absolutely allergic to ads, don't subscribe.
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3. IRC
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And finally, for the real junkies, there is an IRC channel devoted to the
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GIMP. On Byxnet (a private mostly-GIMP network) there is #gimp. Many of the
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developers hang out there. One of the Byxnet servers are:
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irc.gimp.org:6667
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4. Customizing
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The look of GIMP's interface can be customized like any other GTK app by
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editing the ~/.gtkrc file or by using "themes" (ready-made customizations).
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For downloadable themes and further details, see http://gtk.themes.org.
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Additionally GIMP reads ~/.gimp-1.3/gtkrc so you can have settings that
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only apply to The GIMP.
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Included is a set of keybindings similar to those in Adobe Photoshop. You
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can find them in the ps-menurc file. To use them, copy this file to
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~/.gimp-1.3/menurc. You can also manually change the keybindings to any of
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your choice by editing ~/.gimp-1.3/menurc.
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5. Bugs
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Since this is a developers version, we are at the moment not really interested
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in receiving too many bug-reports. Some parts of the code are unfinished and
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under heavy development and we know that. Bug-reports for incomplete or
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missing are features are therefore often not helpful. Instead of filing a bug
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you should try to contact the person who is working on this particular part of
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the program (see the ChangeLog) or try to fix it yourself. You should report
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crashes and other severe bugs at Bugzilla (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/). Your
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bug-report needs to provide detailed instruction of how to reproduce the
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problem. For reports on crashes, please also include a stack trace.
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If you experience crashes whenever you try to start gimp-1.3, you are most
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probably using gdkxft or another LD_PRELOAD hack designed for gtk+-1.2. These
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hacks will not work with GTK+-2.0 applications like this version of The GIMP.
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Have fun,
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Spencer Kimball
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Peter Mattis
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Federico Mena
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Manish Singh
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Sven Neumann
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Michael Natterer
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