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GIMP 1.3.17 Released

Submitted by stro on Thu, 2003-07-24 23:25. GIMP

Lots of new features are being added while the GIMP developers are preparing for camp and GIMP is approaching feature freze. Time for you to try the latest development version which should also be available from a mirror close to you.

developer.gimp.org gets a faceliftBorrowing the look from mmmaybe.gimp.org, developer.gimp.org
has been redesigned. Content still needs to be added but there's hope
that the new site will allow to provide more information about GIMP
development and eventually attract more developers.

Overview of Changes in GIMP 1.3.17
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- Changed all(?) references to GIMP-1.4 to GIMP-2.0 [Sven]
- Allow to transform paths using the transform tools [Mitch]
- Added a simple CMYK color selector [Sven]
- Added naive RGB CMYK conversion routines [Sven]
- Generalized paint tools [Mitch]
- Finally a brush-shaped cursor for all paint tools [Mitch]
- Started to integrate new composite functions [Helvetix]
- Made the style for dockable tabs configurable [Mitch]
- Some preparations for text transformations and vectors from text [Sven]
- Store grid settings in XCF [Brix]
- Redone assembly checks and run-time checks for CPU features [Sven]
- Added lots of mnemonics to the menus [Jimmac]
- Support for comments in PNG files [Sven]
- Constified the libgimp API and adapted all plug-ins [Yosh, Sven]
- Cleaned up the brush/font/gradient/pattern selector API [Mitch]
- Support for patterns with alpha channel [Bolsh]
- Lots of bug fixes

Other contributors:
Eric Pierce, Joao S. O. Bueno, Alastair M. Robinson, Tor Lillqvist

Re: GIMP 1.3.17 Released

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2003-07-25 02:22.

Depends for which purpose. The CYMK is required for prepress, and was often used by profesionals or semi-profesionals. Profesionals require a high quality colour management, so for them this naive conversion is useless (or close to useless), and they will go on using Photoshop (or Corel Photopaint 9 on Linux platform).

For you and me, maybe the naive tool will be enough. For semi-profesionals (like an association editing its journal, etc.), I hope it may be enough in most cases.

GEGL is supposed to solve this and to add also support for 16 bits images or floating point images (used for movie industry and in astronomy for example). GEGL is also supposed to bring a huge set of new capabilities for gimp, bringing him back to the level of the current Photoshop (or even more), e.g. with layer effects. However, GEGL has not progressed a lot during the last years, but we can hope that now that gtk2 porting and core rewriting is done, the developers of Gimp will help the developers of GEGL and its development will accelerate.

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