gimp1.2 for Debian GNU/Linux ---------------------------- The GNU Image Manipulation Program lets you draw, edit images, and manipulate them any way you want! This is the stable 1.2 release of Gimp. It's a full featured, freely available, non-Motif version of The Gimp. ***WARNING*** You MUST have the xfonts-75dpi package available, either via the .deb packages, or a remote font server like xfs, before running The GIMP. The gimp package Recommends: this package along with xfonts-100dpi, but it is not required to have them installed locally if you have a remote font server set up. However, if you don't have either, GIMP *will* crash with a really esoteric error message. The lesson is: INSTALL THE xfonts-75dpi AND xfonts-100dpi PACKAGES! Version 1.2 has full layers support, tile-based memory allocation, and a whole bunch of other nifty features. If you want full documentation, either see the gimp-doc package or the wonderful online docs: http://manual.gimp.org/ COMPILING PLUGINS: ----------------- If you wish to compile your own plug-ins, the easiest way is to use 'gimptool', a simple tool that comes in the libgimp1.2-dev package. This works only if you have a plug-in whose source is a single .c file, however: gimptool --install plug-in.c Now wasn't that easy? Ben Gertzfield , Tue, 22 Jul 1997 20:53:20 -0500