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- Changes
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-
- - Fixed a configuration "problem" which caused "-ansi -pedantic" flags
- to be added. These cause compilation problems on some systems.
- - Changed "basename" in "gimage.c" which sometimes conflicts with a
- c library function by the same name.
-
-
- The GIMP: the General Image Manipulation Program
- ------------------------------------------------
-
- The GIMP is designed to provide an intuitive graphical interface to a
- variety of image editing operations. Here is a list of the GIMP's
- major features:
-
- Image viewing
- -------------
-
- * Supports 8, 15, 16 and 24 bit color.
- * Ordered and Floyd-Steinberg dithering for 8 bit displays.
- * View images as rgb color, grayscale or indexed color.
- * Simultaneously edit multiple images.
- * Zoom and pan in real-time.
- * GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and XPM support.
-
- Image editing
- -------------
-
- * Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy, bezier
- and intelligent.
- * Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip.
- * Painting tools including bucket, brush, airbrush, clone, convolve,
- blend and text.
- * Effects filters (such as blur, edge detect).
- * Channel & color operations (such as add, composite, decompose).
- * Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and
- new effect filters.
- * Multiple undo/redo.
-
-
- Requirements
- ------------
-
- * The operating system must support shared memory.
- * X11 R5 or R6. (Actually, it may work on R4, but we have not had a
- chance to test it).
- * The X-server must support the X shared memory extension. (The
- X-server does not actually need to support shared memory so this is
- only a temporary situation until we integrate the configure
- information with the source code).
- * Motif 1.2 or above.
-
- The GIMP has been tested (and developed) on the following operating
- systems: Linux 1.2.13, Solaris 2.4, HPUX 9.05, SGI IRIX.
-
- Currently, the biggest restriction to running the GIMP is the Motif
- requirement. We will release a statically linked binary for several
- systems soon (including Linux).
-
-
- URLs
- ----
-
- http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~gimp
- ftp://ftp.xcf.berkeley.edu/pub/gimp
- mailto:gimp@xcf.berkeley.edu
-
-
- Brought to you by
- -----------------
-
- Spencer Kimball (spencer@xcf.berkeley.edu)
- Peter Mattis (petm@xcf.berkeley.edu)
-
-
- NOTE
- ----
-
- This software is currently a beta release. This means that we haven't
- implemented all of the features we think are required for a full,
- unqualified release. There are undoubtedly bugs we haven't found yet
- just waiting to surface given the right conditions. If you run across
- one of these, please send mail to gimp@xcf.berkeley.edu with
- precise details on how it can be reproduced.
-