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The GIMP v1.0 available on Athena!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Nygren)
Mon Jun 15 18:50:09 1998
To: software-announce@MIT.EDU, graphics@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 18:49:48 EDT
From: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
Version 1.0 of The GIMP is now available on Athena.
The GIMP is a free and powerful graphics package with
functionality similar to Adobe Photoshop. Currently
Linux, NetBSD, Suns, and SGIs are supported.
To use The GIMP on Athena:
add gimp; gimp
If this is the first time you're running it on a platform (Sun, SGI, etc),
you'll need to specify a directory into which you can install about 400k
worth of configuration files, preferences, etc. You'll also need
to specify a directory to be used for the tile cache --- this defaults
to a directory in /var/tmp and may grow arbitrarily large if you're
working with really big images. Note that The GIMP may take a few minutes
to start up the first time you run it on a platform.
The version of The GIMP installed on Athena differs from the standard
1.0 distribution in that it will allow you to specify locations for
these directories other than in your home directory. It will also
create the tile cache directory if it doesn't exist on the machine
you're using when The GIMP is started.
All of the standard plug-ins are installed. Some of the
unsupporeted plug-ins may be installed in the near future.
To read The GIMP's user manual:
add gimp acro
acroread /mit/gimp/doc/GimpUserManual.pdf
Don't even *think* of sending this to an Athena printer... ;-)
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A full description from www.gimp.org:
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely
distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo
retouching, image composition and image authoring. It is an extremely
capable piece of software with many capabilities. It can be used as a
simple paint program, a expert quality photo retouching program, an
online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, a
image format converter, etc.
GIMP is extremely expandedable and extensible. It is designed to be
augmented with plugins and extensions to do just about anything. The
advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task
to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily
scripted.
GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. At this
time there is no Windows or Mac ports. There is an OS/2 port in
development.
Features and Capabilities
This is only a very quickly thrown together list of GIMP
features. This is only the tip of the iceberg.
Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone,etc.
Tile based memory managent so image size is
limited only by available disk space.
Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools
for high quality anti-aliasing
Full alpha channel support
Layers and channels
A Procedural Database for calling
internal GIMP functions from external programs as in
Script-fu, a Scheme-based scripting language
Advanced scripting capabilities
Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time
Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool.
Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format.
Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip.
File formats supported include gif, jpg, png, xpm, tiff,
tga, mpeg, ps, pdf, pcx, bmp, and many others.
Load, display, convert, save to many file formats.
Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free,
fuzzy, bezier and intelligent.
Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new
file formats and new effect filters.
Over 100 plugins already available.
Supports custom brushes and patterns
Much, much more!
