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GIMP 1.1 - New features -*- text -*-
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The following list tries to describe all the new features that are
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already implemented or currently being worked on. I cannot guarantee
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that I describe everything correctly, since for most items I haven't
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read the code but only looked at the ChangeLog entry. I can however
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guarantee that a few things are missing.
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Older items are on top, newer ones further down the list. At the end a
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few common things are listed.
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XInput support
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GIMP does now support special input devices like drawing tablets by
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default. It depends on the device being supported by your
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XServer. This is true for example for Wacom drawing
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tablets. Support for multiple devices, pressure and tilt
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sensitivity is slowly added to all paint tools.
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Ink tool
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A nice new toy that really comes to life if you have an extended
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input device as described above. If you don't happen to have a
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special device, Ink will vary its size based on the speed of your
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cursor. The results can be remarkably natural-looking.
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'File New' dialog
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The new dialog for creating new images allows to use real life
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units like centimeters and inches along with a resolution entry.
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Hex display
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A small but nifty feature was added to the Color Picker: It know
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displays the HEX triplet of the selected color. Useful for WEB
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artists.
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Pop-up button
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The small rectangle between the rulers in the upper left corner of
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the image window now gives access to the menu. Useful for people
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with tablets or two-button mice.
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Status bar
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The image display know has a status bar. Plug-ins display their
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progress there and your mouse coordinates are displayed. Most tools
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use it too. The Selection tool for example shows the selection size
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while you drag. And don't worry, it's possible to hide the
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status bar to save screen estate.
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GUI enhancements
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Lots of nifty enhancements to the user interface. Spinbuttons are
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used in a lot of places. More stuff like that has to be added in
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the future...
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Session management
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GIMP remembers window positions and sizes and restores them on
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startup.
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Selections
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New algorithms are now used to grow and shrink the selection. The
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result looks much better!
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PDB interface
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A lot more internal functions are now exported to the PDB. This
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should for example allow the GIMP Animation Plugin to work without
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changes to the GIMP core.
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Better tile-caching
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Tiles are now more intelligently cached and a threaded process
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tries to swap out dirty tiles before you run out of physical
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memory.
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Copy On Write
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The MAD-COW patches that appeared too late to get integrated into
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GIMP-1.0 are now integrated. And...its FASTER!!
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Document Index
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The document index keeps track of the images you used with The
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GIMP. You can even drag in an image from a file-manager (GNOME MC
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for example).
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Editable Brushes
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Well, editable brushes still need some work, but the basics are
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there...
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Fixed size selections
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The size or the aspect ratio of selections can now be entered
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numerically as well.
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Script-Fu interface improvements
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The Script-Fu dialog now allows a whole bunch of entry widgets,
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like selectors for fonts, brushes, gradients and patterns. Strings
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can be entered without the nasty quotes and numerical entries can
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use sliders and spinbuttons. Most of the scripts were already
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updated.
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Quick Reference
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The Quick Reference sheet looks much better and holds more
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information. A must-have for your desktop.
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Transform Tool UI
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The user interface for the Transform tool has seen a major
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overhaul. It now offers a new 'Corrective' mode that for example
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makes it easy to correct slightly rotated scans.
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Color representation
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GIMP now uses GdkRGB to provide better dithering for non truecolor
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displays. This should also speed GIMP up a bit.
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Parasites
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Arbitrary data can be attached to an image and be retrieved later.
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Tattoos
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A unique stamp can be attached to drawables. That way a plug-in can
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easily keep track of layers.
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Dialogs
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A few dialogs can now be controlled via the PDB. That allows a
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plug-in to use the internal dialogs to select brushes, patterns and
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gradients.
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Idle-Renderer
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Display re-rendering is now handled in an interruptible
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asynchronous thread. This makes The GIMP more responsive especially
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when working with the Layers-dialog.
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Resolution support
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Each image now has a resolution associated with it. This needs to
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be integrated better into the GUI, but there are already a few file
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plug-ins that make use of this.
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GimpPerl
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The GIMP-Perl extension and several Perl-Fu scripts are now part of
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GIMP 1.1.
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Monitor resolution
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The image can now be displayed in float scale factors. If GIMP
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knows about your monitor resolution it displays one inch as one
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inch. Still needs some work...
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Help in the DB Browser
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The DB Browser now also display the help that is available for a
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lot of functions in the PDB.
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Internationalization
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National Language Support is coming!
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New plug-ins
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Various new plug-ins were added. More have appeared in the Registry
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and wait to be added or updated. A few nice ones that are now
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included:
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* WaterSelect - a nifty way to select colors
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* NewsPrint - whee, you have to see that
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* Guillotine - slices the image up along its guides
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Internals
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Lots of changes were made to GIMP internals that I don't understand
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correctly, like objectification and removal of the image ID
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system. Read the ChangeLog yourself to figure this out.
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Plug-ins and Scripts
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Various plug-ins and scripts not mentioned above have been updated
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or fixed to work with changes in the GIMP core or GTK+. One day I
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might add a list of all changed plug-ins to this list...
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Color selectors
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An API has been added to allow the addition of any number of
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different color selection systems via pluggable modules. The GTK
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color selector and a triangle color selector have been added to the
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color selection dialog through this new system.
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Better feedback
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Internal operations that take a long time to complete (transforms,
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gradients, etc.) now display a progress bar and cursor change to
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inform the user about what's going on.
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Unit representation
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You can now work directly in inches, centimeters, millimeters, and
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other units without having to do pixel math to figure things out.
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Paths dialog
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Manipulating paths is much easier, and the Paths dialog is
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integrated into the Layers & Channels dialog. Paths are quite
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flexible and will soon replace the Bezier tool entirely.
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Thumbnails
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The Open dialog now displays a thumbnail if it exists, and gives
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the option to generate one if it doesn't.
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Indexed images
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Converting images from RGB to Indexed color has been improved.
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Win32 merging
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The patches required for compiling under Win32 are being integrated
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into the main GIMP source.
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Miscellaneous
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- The painting functions (brush, pencil, airbrush, etc.) have been
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optimized, and a new painting option allows you to color with a
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gradient.
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- The GAP plugin, which has some essential animation features, is
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now integrated into GIMP.
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- The font selector has been redesigned.
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- The new, slightly incomplete MAINTAINERS file should help track
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responsibility and expertise for various GIMP parts.
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- There's now a man page for the gimprc file.
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- The titlebar layout can be customized to display information in
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various ways.
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Copyright 1998 by Sven Neumann
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Modified by Zach Beane
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