Search 5,000,000+ questions and answers.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is GIMP a GNOME application?

GIMP - Documentation
Not really. It doesn't use the GNOME application framework. The only thing it has in common is GTK+. GIMP can optionally use gnome-vfs, allowing you to load and edit images from remote servers.
Related Questions

What is this GIMP?

GIMP - Documentation
The "GNU Image Manipulation Program" (originally the General Image Manipulation Program) sired by Spencer Kimball & Peter Mattis. In their own words, "GIMP is our answer to the current lack of free (or at least reasonably priced) image manipulation software for Linux and UNIX in general." It is a raster editor, which means that it performs operations directly on the pixels that make up the image, and not a vector editor.
Related Questions

Which application use gnome-print?

Current gnome-print relies entirely on underlying printing system for interfacing with actual printers. So it uses whatever libraries/prograsm your printing system use. In future it may implement direct drivers too, but of course, the general ones remain always present. Why my application should use gnome-print? After all it is not so difficult to produce PostScript manually and doing so gives me endless possibilities.
Related Questions

Dalek Chess Project: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
The gimp stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It provides a variety of graphics manipulation capabilities. It is used to aid in the creation of bitmaps for the game.
Related Questions

Adaptive Linux Solutions, Linux Software, Linux Web Hosting,...
Gimp is a freely distibuted program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authority.
Related Questions

GIMP User FAQ
In their own words, ''The GIMP is our answer to the current lack of free (or at least reasonably priced) image manipulation software for Linux and UNIX in general.'' Note: Originally, GIMP stood for ''General Image Manipulation Program''. The change to GNU is fairly recent.
Related Questions

What or who are Gnome?

Adaptive Linux Solutions, Linux Software, Linux Web Hosting,...
Gnome is a free software and is part of the GNU project dedicated to give users and developers the ultimate level of contol over thier desktops there software and there data.
Related Questions

Is GTK+ still under the aegis of GIMP? Was it ever?

GIMP - Documentation
GTK was developed solely for GIMP, initially. Towards the end of the 0.99 development cycle in 1998, GTK was split from being bundled with GIMP to being a separately available library. See ancient history for some interesting tidbits from the GIMP perspective.
Related Questions

Does GIMP have scanner support?

GIMP - Documentation
Yes. You can run xscanimage, the front end to SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy), either as a GIMP extension or in stand-alone mode. This supports Mustek and HP flatbed scanners, as well as the Connectix color QuickCam camera.
Related Questions

Can GIMP install its own colormap?

GIMP - Documentation
Yes. In either the system-wide gimprc file or your personal gimprc file, uncomment the line that includes install-colormap. If GIMP gives you a message similar to either of these when you try to start it: Xlib: extension "MIT-SHM" missing on display "198.51.29.58:0.0". or * WARNING **: XShmAttach failed! then you need to run it with the --no-xshm option. This happens for one of two reasons.
Related Questions

What kind of system do I need to run GIMP?

GIMP - Documentation
Any system capable of running Gnome 2, KDE 3.2, Windows 2000, Mac OS X and later versions should be able to run GIMP. GIMP's biggest appetite is for memory and how much you will need will depend on the how many images you are working with, their resolution, size, the number of layers you use and so on. As a general rule, more is better, but 128MB should be enough to be getting started with.
Related Questions

How can I draw a circle with GIMP?

GIMP - Documentation
Use the elliptical select tool, hold down SHIFT key to constrain as circle, fill the selected area with new color, right click on selected area, choose SELECT, SHRINK, shrink selection by whatever number of pixels you want your circle width to be, right click again in selected area, choose EDIT, CUT. Voila, one beautifully antialased circle.
Related Questions

How can I change the GIMP font?

GIMP - Documentation
You need to copy the gtkrc file that comes with the GIMP source (in the top level directory) into $HOME/.gimp/gtkrc . As of 0.99.10, this should be recognized.
Related Questions

Is there any help available for GIMP?

GIMP - Windows installers
Some broken application placed a file named intl.dll to your Windows or Windows\System32 directory. Rename it, and GIMP will work fine.
Related Questions

Where can I find some tutorials/manuals for GIMP?

GIMP - Windows installers
Minimize the window and ignore it, as most of the warnings it displays are harmless, and GIMP will still work. This is usually caused by broken programs installing libraries to Windows\System32 directory. Most likely there's a bad version of intl.dll, libxml2.dll, xmlparse.dll or xmltok.dll in there. Rename or remove it, and GIMP should load fine.
Related Questions

E5.Why does gEDA not become a GNOME/KDE application?

gEDA General Frequently asked Questions
gEDA will most likely never come a pure GNOME/KDE application. The developers decided a long time ago that having too many dependancies on external libraries is not a good idea. Especially since gEDA is trying to achieve cross Unix platform portability. This philosophy does not exclude gEDA having support for GNOME/KDE (feel free to contribute code to achieve this), but this support will be a compile (./configure) time option. All file formats with gEDA must be pure ASCII.
Related Questions

edit] Will Inkscape be part of the Gnome-Office?

FAQ - Inkscape Wiki
Inkscape will need to mature a bit further before this can be considered. Specifically, better support for embedding (Bonobo) is needed, and the Gnome-Print subsystem needs to be tested more thoroughly (help very much appreciated here). If you can compile a recent version of Inkscape and help us with testing it would be very useful.
Related Questions

Should GNOME programmers switch over to Mono now?

FAQ: General - Mono
Yes, we believe that Mono 1.0 is ready to be used as the main development platform for building applications for the GNOME desktop. Mono includes Gtk# a .NET binding for GTK+ and various GNOME libraries which together with C# and the System libraries provide developers with great productivity for building graphical applications especially when compared to GTK+ or Java Swing. Although we had plan to support Bonobo, we have not yet done any work on this area and it is no longer a high priority.
Related Questions

Do you have C# bindings for GNOME?

FAQ: General - Mono
Yes, the Gtk# project provides bindings for Gtk+, Gdk, Atk, libgnome, libgnomecanvas, and libgnomeui. Other libraries under the GNOME framework will be added on an as-needed (and as-requested) basis.
Related Questions

How do I get a GNOME, KDE or Xfce desktop?

Frequently Asked Questions | Ubuntu
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu, and Ubuntu Server all share the base (kernel, low level programme mes). This means you can install any of them on any other. GNOME is the default desktop for Ubuntu. It can also be installed with the ubuntu-desktop package. To learn more about Ubuntu, please see Ubuntu on the desktop. KDE is the default desktop for Kubuntu. It can also be installed with the kubuntu-desktop package. To learn more about Kubuntu, please see Kubuntu.
Related Questions

Is there a history of the GIMP available?

GIMP User FAQ
Seth Burgess has written A brief history of the GIMP. It's available at http://students.ou.edu/B/Seth.J.Burgess-1/gimp-history.html .
Related Questions

What is GIMP's native graphics file format?

GIMP - Documentation
XCF is GIMP's "native" format. This will preserve all information about an image, including the layers.
Related Questions

Got A Question? Ask Our Community!


More Questions >>

© Copyright 2007-2008 QueryCAT
About • Webmasters • Contact