From: p...@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Peter Mattis)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: The GIMP
Date: 1995/11/21
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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.csua.berkeley.edu/~gimp
ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/gimp
mailto:g...@soda.csua.berkeley.edu
Brought to you by
-----------------
Spencer Kimball (spen...@soda.csua.berkeley.edu)
Peter Mattis (p...@soda.csua.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 g...@soda.csua.berkeley.edu with
precise details on how it can be reliably reproduced.
From: p...@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Peter Mattis)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: The GIMP v0.51
Date: 1995/11/29
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This is basically a bug release with a few extras. It should be easier to
configure on systems which have motif in a strange directory. This has been
done by adding two command line options to the `configure' script.
`--motif-includes' and `--motif-libraries' allow the setting of the motif
include and library directories explicitly.
If you are still having trouble compiling the GIMP let us know. Drop us
a line describing the problem and, if possible, a solution.
Some of the other changes include:
* Added gaussian blur effects filter
* Added transfer modes for brushes (lighten only, darken only, etc.)
* Improved configure script
* Added standard Makefiles for people who have trouble using the
configure script. ("Makefile.std", "app/Makefile.std",
"plug-ins/Makefile.std", "config.h.std").
* Changed plug-ins Makefile to reflect new version of zlib (which is
used by png library). zlib is now referred to as `libz' instead of
`libgz'.
* Modified source to provide sunOS 4.1.x compatibility
* Added "refresh" features to brush selection dialog.
* Fixed a bug in the brush dialog when there are no brushes.
* Fixed a selection transparency problem
* Changed the way black and white colors are found for use in the
marching ants. (Searches for either black and white or two
contrasting colors).
* Fixed a bug with text tool when in pixel size mode.
* Changed the color select tool to allow either the creation of a
new color or the modification of the existing
foreground/background
color.
* Fixed a small bug in "gamma.c" that caused it to use only the red
gamma value. (ph...@BayNetworks.com)
* Fixed an even smaller bug in "invert.c" that caused it to crash
when run on an indexed color image.
* Fixed a bug in "pixelize.c" that caused it to pop up a message
dialog incorrectly.
The README file is reproduced below
Peter Mattis
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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.csua.berkeley.edu/~gimp
ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/gimp
mailto:g...@soda.csua.berkeley.edu
Brought to you by
-----------------
Spencer Kimball (spen...@soda.csua.berkeley.edu)
Peter Mattis (p...@soda.csua.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 g...@soda.csua.berkeley.edu with
precise details on how it can be reliably reproduced.
From: i...@scn.de (Iain Lea)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: The GIMP
Date: 1995/12/04
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If anyone has compiled this and *statically* linked it with the Motif libs
could you please drop me a line with the ftp site.
Thanx
--
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i...@sbs.de <http://www.sbs.de/~iain> +49 911 978 3120
From: mar...@oeto.pk.edu.pl (Marcin Klimowski)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: The GIMP
Date: 1995/12/07
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Iain Lea (i...@scn.de) wrote:
: If anyone has compiled this and *statically* linked it with the Motif libs
: could you please drop me a line with the ftp site.
:
Iain :
you did not specified for which OS you need it.......
Marcin;)
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From: l...@lounix4.conc.tdsnet.com (Lou Sortman)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: The GIMP
Date: 1995/12/08
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In article <DJ7o2E....@cyf-kr.edu.pl>,
mar...@oeto.pk.edu.pl (Marcin Klimowski) writes:
>Iain Lea (i...@scn.de) wrote:
>: If anyone has compiled this and *statically* linked it with the Motif libs
>: could you please drop me a line with the ftp site.
>:
>
>Iain :
>
>you did not specified for which OS you need it.......
Good point. I, for one, am running Linux ELF.
From: jhug...@tooltime.columbiasc.attgis.com (Jeff Hughes)
Subject: Need help choosing a Motif vendor
Date: 1995/12/13
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Can anyone provide me with any reasons not to choose the least expensive version
of a Motif distribution? All I want are the basics:
ELF shared and static libraries for 2.0
includes
UIL compiler
man pages
regular demos stuff plus mwm
All the distributions so far pretty much meet these demands, yet they vary by as
much as $100 or more in price. The more expensive ones like metrolink seem to
offer little more than printed user's guide(which I can live with only the
online version) and a promise of better quality(less bugs). Are there many
major known problems with for instance SWiM, MoTeeth, or MooTiff. Also, I
thought I read something about problems with Motif and gcc-2.7.0. Do any such
compilation problems exist?
Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Jeff Hughes
jhug...@tooltime.columbiasc.attgis.com
From: p...@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Peter Mattis)
Subject: Re: Need help choosing a Motif vendor
Date: 1995/12/14
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In article <DJJK21....@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.ATTGIS.COM>,
Jeff Hughes <jhug...@tooltime.columbiasc.attgis.com> wrote:
>All the distributions so far pretty much meet these demands, yet they vary by as
>much as $100 or more in price. The more expensive ones like metrolink seem to
>offer little more than printed user's guide(which I can live with only the
>online version) and a promise of better quality(less bugs). Are there many
>major known problems with for instance SWiM, MoTeeth, or MooTiff. Also, I
>thought I read something about problems with Motif and gcc-2.7.0. Do any such
>compilation problems exist?
I can't speak for the ELF version of MooTiff, but from my experience with
the a.out version I would recommend against it. Basically me experience is
this...
Sometime before Thanksgiving I noticed that when you statically link a
binary, the file selection dialog causes a seg fault. I thought this was
my fault, but after narrowing down the problem I discovered I could write
a 20 line program (which is taken almost verbatim from the O'Reiley book)
that reproduces the bug. So I sent mail to the MooTiff technical support
people with the short program that reproduced the bug. All I got back was
an acknowledgement that they were looking into my problem. This was the
week before Thanksgiving. As of today, they still haven't acknowledged the
bug or replied with a fix to my program (indicating that it was really
my fault all along). I have started to pester them, but now I don't even
get my mail returned. Oh yeah, I've also check into other Motif's...they
don't have this problem. (ie Static binaries work fine).
If you are listening MooTiff people, this is not the way to keep
customers. I've already decided that I'm purchasing another version of
Motif for Christmas. I don't expect much technical support, but when I
can point to the function that causes the crash I expect at least some
kind of response or acknowledgement.
Peter Mattis
PS And for all the people out there that want a static binary of the GIMP,
this is the reason there isn't one out yet.
From: t...@ionews.io.org (Brian Tao)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: The GIMP
Date: 1995/12/14
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In article <4aa20g$...@madison.tdsnet.com>, Lou Sortman
<l...@lounix4.conc.tdsnet.com> wrote:
>
>Good point. I, for one, am running Linux ELF.
The authors of GIMP said they were having problems producing a
statically-linked version for Linux. They believe it may be a bug in
the Linux version of the Motif libs. If anyone needs a static binary
for FreeBSD 2.x though, contact me at t...@io.org.
--
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Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
From: "David L. Johnson" <d...@lehigh.edu>
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: The GIMP
Date: 1995/12/15
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Brian Tao wrote:
>
> In article <4aa20g$...@madison.tdsnet.com>,
Lou Sortman <l...@lounix4.conc.tdsnet.com> wrote:
> >
> >Good point. I, for one, am running Linux ELF.
>
> The authors of GIMP said they were having problems producing a
> statically-linked version for Linux.
Hm. I've never had any problem doing that. If they want, I could
provide them with one.
--
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From: p...@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Peter Mattis)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: The GIMP
Date: 1995/12/15
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In article <30D1D556.1...@lehigh.edu>,
David L. Johnson <d...@lehigh.edu> wrote:
>> The authors of GIMP said they were having problems producing a
>> statically-linked version for Linux.
>
>Hm. I've never had any problem doing that. If they want, I could
>provide them with one.
Well, thanks to Steve Dunham, we will be putting up a statically linked
ELF binary very soon. (I just want to check it out first to make sure
everything is ok).
And in case you were wondering, the flawed Motif distribution I have
is from Infomagic (MooTif). I can take a demo off the distribution cd
and statically link it to demonstrate the problem. (Its with the file
selection dialog).
Peter Mattis
From: s...@questor.org
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: The GIMP
Date: 1995/12/15
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In article <4asu8t$...@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Peter Mattis <p...@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>In article <30D1D556.1...@lehigh.edu>,
>David L. Johnson <d...@lehigh.edu> wrote:
>>> The authors of GIMP said they were having problems producing a
>>> statically-linked version for Linux.
>>
>>Hm. I've never had any problem doing that. If they want, I could
>>provide them with one.
>
>Well, thanks to Steve Dunham, we will be putting up a statically linked
>ELF binary very soon. (I just want to check it out first to make sure
>everything is ok).
Wonderful for ELF, but is there a statically-linked a.out version??
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From: p...@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Peter Mattis)
Subject: GIMP ELF/a.out binaries
Date: 1995/12/19
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Hello world,
I have made static binaries of the GIMP available from:
ftp://ftp.xcf.berkeley.edu/pub/gimp/binary
There are both ELF and a.out versions. To be truthful, the binaries only
statically link Motif. But since everyone who has X should also have the
shared X libraries, this shouldn't be a problem.
I statically linked in some of the special libraries needed for file
plug-ins, such as libjpeg and libtiff, for the a.out version. I did
no create the ELF static binaries and thus have no way of doing
something similar for the ELF plug-ins. (Still got an a.out system).
You may also notice that the a.out version is 0.53 and the ELF version
is 0.51. This is another consequence of my not having created the
ELF version.
Also, you might want to check out the webpage at:
http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~gimp
We are currently creating tutorials which will appear on the webpage.
The first one is already completed and more should appear over the
Christmas holiday.
Peter Mattis
p...@xcf.berkeley.edu
g...@xcf.berkeley.edu
PS For those paying attention, yes, the addresses (ftp, www and mail)
have changed from "csua.berkeley.edu" to "xcf.berkeley.edu". This is
simply because we found a system on which we don't have disk quotas.
And that means we can make bigger webpages and put more stuff (like
binaries) on the ftp site. (Yay!)
From: st...@netcom.com
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: The GIMP
Date: 1995/12/21
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>Wonderful for ELF, but is there a statically-linked a.out version??
I agree that this is a legitimate point.
For better or for worse, there are a lot of a.out Linux machines out
there, and an a.out Linux binary (using libc.so.4.7.2) is essentially the
"universal" Linux format.
Also, an a.out Linux binary lets the BSD people also have a pre-compiled
program.
I do not mean to bother the developers, but just make what are, IMHO,
some legitimate points.
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From: p...@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Peter Mattis)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: The GIMP
Date: 1995/12/21
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In article <strenDJxx8J....@netcom.com>, <st...@netcom.com> wrote:
>For better or for worse, there are a lot of a.out Linux machines out
>there, and an a.out Linux binary (using libc.so.4.7.2) is essentially the
>"universal" Linux format.
This includes the developers! (ie. We do not have ELF systems!)
>Also, an a.out Linux binary lets the BSD people also have a pre-compiled
>program.
>
>I do not mean to bother the developers, but just make what are, IMHO,
>some legitimate points.
FYI, there is now a statically linked a.out binary on our ftp site.
(ftp://ftp.xcf.berkeley.edu/pub/gimp/binary/gimp-0.53-linux-a.out-bin.tar.gz)
You may notice that the version number is 0.53 for the a.out binary while
the source version number is 0.52. Don't worry, I simply compiled a binary
from the source I have and gave it a higher version number. (It should even
fix some bugs and add some functionality).
Peter Mattis