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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
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if you are brave and curious and want to participate development
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towards the next stable release version. This is a developers
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version. We know it has bugs and it might not even compile. You have
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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. The perl bindings as well as all the perl
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scripts are not any longer included in this source tree. They have
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been moved into its own module called gimp-perl and await being
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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
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functions are broken. Almost everything is under construction. Don't
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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", "gimp-win-users"
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or "gimp-developer" (without the quotes, of course) depending on the list
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you want to subscribe to. Links to the mailing list archives can be
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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 is also a mailing list dedicated to users of the Win32 port
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"gimpwin-users". To subscribe, send an empty message to
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gimpwin-users-subscribe@egroups.com
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You can also use the web interface at
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http://www.egroups.com/group/gimpwin-users/. Note that as this mailing
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list is hosted on egroups.com; the messages from the list contain
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relatively unintrusive and easily ignored advertisements at the
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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
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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 too many bug-reports. Some parts of the code
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are unfinished and under heavy development and we know that.
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Bug-reports for incomplete or missing are features are therefore often
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not helpful. Instead of filing a bug you should try to contact the
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person who is working on this particular part of the program (see the
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ChangeLog) or try to fix it yourself. You should report crashes and
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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
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the problem. For reports on crashes, please also include a stack
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trace.
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If you experience crashes whenever you try to start gimp-1.3, you are
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most probably using gdkxft or another LD_PRELOAD hack designed for
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gtk+-1.2. These hacks will not work with GTK+-2.0 applications like
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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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