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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
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it if you are brave and curious and want to participate development
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towards the next stable release version 1.4. Please do not yet report
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bugs in this version. This is a developers version. We know it has
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bugs 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
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included in this release. This includes the Perl extension and thus
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all the perl plug-ins. There is no working text tool and various other
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tools and functions are broken. Almost everything is under construction.
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Don't even think about using this for daily work. If you are a software
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distributor, dont' dare to 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,
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tutorials, 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",
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"gimp-win-user", or "gimp-developer" (without the quotes, of course)
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depending on the list you want to subscribe to. Links to the mailing
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list archives can be found at the same addresses as given above.
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Gimp-announce is a low-traffic list with announcements about new
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releases of GIMP and plug-ins. Gimp-user is a mailing list dedicated
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to user problems, hints and tips, discussion of cool effects, etc.
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Gimp-developer is oriented to GIMP core and plug-in developers. Most
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people will only want to be subscribed to gimp-user. If you want to
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help develop The GIMP, the gimp-developer mailing list is a good
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starting point.
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There are two mailing lists dedicated to the Win32 port, "gimpwin-users"
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and "gimpwin-dev". Especially the latter also carries traffic about the
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GTk+ port 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
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messages from the list contain relatively unintrusive and easily
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ignored advertisements at the end. But if you are absolutely allergic
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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
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the GIMP. On Byxnet (a private mostly-GIMP network) there is #gimp.
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Many of the 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
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by editing the ~/.gtkrc file or by using "themes" (ready-made
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customizations). For downloadable themes and further details, see
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http://gtk.themes.org. Additionally GIMP reads ~/.gimp-1.3/gtkrc so
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you can have settings that only apply to The GIMP.
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Included is a set of keybindings similar to those in Adobe Photoshop.
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You can find them in the ps-menurc file. To use them, copy this file
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to ~/.gimp-1.3/menurc. You can also manually change the keybindings to
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any of 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
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interested in receiving bug-reports. If you find a bug, contact the
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person who is working on this particular part of the program (check
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the ChangeLog) or try to fix it yourself.
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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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