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- This is release 1.0.0 of the GIMP User's Manual (GUM). This is the first
- stable release of the manual, a product of almost a year of work. It
- is available in HTML, PS, PDF and FM (FrameMaker) source code. Please
- read COPYING for the license terms of the manual.
-
- The manual is about 590 pages long and there have been several
- imporvments over previous versions. Be sure to pay special attention
- to the new Gallery chaper which contains many nice images and a hints
- on how to make them. The Gallery is a good example of what you can do
- with the GIMP. All images in the manual is 100% pure GIMP images.
-
- The HTML version is suitable for online manual, PS and PDF are suitable if
- you want to print it on a regular printer or have a nice looking online
- manual. The FM source code is only useful if you want to contribute to
- the Graphic Documentation Project. Submissions to the GIMP User's manual
- will follow under the license agreement in the COPYING file.
-
- The HTML version of the manual, while convenient for an online manual,
- is not the same quality of the PDF or PostScript formats. Improvements will be
- made to the HTML version later. This release was under a time constraint.
-
- Here is a short list of changes and additions:
-
- New chapters:
-
- * Gallery
- * Prepress
- * Advanced animations
- * compileing
- * fonts
- * Mikes Script Fu school (needs update)
-
- Some notes if you want to work with the FameMaker or PostScript versions:
- The decompressed PS is about 170 MB. If you work with the FM version you
- will need to adjust the image and font values for memory handling inside
- FrameMaker otherwise it will not display or print the Render and Galley
- chapters. This is because these chapters have a large number of large
- images. The decompressed FM is about 235 MB.
-
- We hope that the GIMP Users Manual will be useful to the GIMP user community
- and welcome all comments and suggestions.
-
- Yours,
-
- Karin & Olof
-
- karin@frozenriver.ale.se
- karin@frozenriver.com (summer '98)
-
- PS. We want to thank Matt Wilson for his helping hand.
-
-