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3This is gpaint (GNU Paint) version 0.3.3, a small-scale painting program for
4GNOME, the GNU Desktop.  Gpaint does not attempt to compete with GIMP.  Think of
5GIMP is like Photoshop as gpaint is like Windows Paint.
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7Gpaint is still work in progress and many features are still being developed.
8However, gpaint is usable already for simple image editing..
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11Changes in this version:
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13   * Switch to using libglade; now libglade is a requirement for gpaint
14   * some UI adjustment in dialogs to fit the GNOME convention; using the Gtk+
15     standard about box
16   * Using GtkPrint to do printing when gtk+ version is >= 2.10; only basic
17     support is in place for now
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19Currently gpaint has the following features:
20   * Drawing tools--ovals, freehand, polygon, text, with fill or shallow for
21     polygons and closed freehand, and brushes.
22   * Cut and paste by selecting regions or polygons.
23   * Print support using gnome-print (basic functionality is there)
24   * Modern, ease-to-use user interface with tool and color palettes
25   * Editing multiple image at the same time without running multiple instance
26     of the image editor
27   * All image processing features present in xpaint
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29This version of gpaint requires the GNOME 2.0 environment.  This version uses
30the gdk-pixbuf library to handle image loading and saving.   So currently
31gpaint's image saving is limited to the formats supported by gdk-pixbuf.
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33Gpaint now uses Pango to do text drawing.  Currently English multi-line texts
34work; non-English languages are not tested and input methods like SCIM are not
35yet properly supported; this is to be addressed.
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37A large part of gpaint is derived from xpaint 2.4.9, authored by David Koblas
38and later Torsten Martinsen.
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40The gpaint project is hosted on the GNU Savannah project site.
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42   http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gpaint/
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44gpaint development utilizes the GNU Arch Revision Control System; The
45development source is hosted at
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47Archive name: atai@gnu.org--gpaint
48        URL: http://arch.gnu.org/archives/gpaint/atai@gnu.org--gpaint/
49branch: atai@gnu.org--gpaint/gpaint--main--1.0
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51For bugs report at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=gpaint
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53Future development plans:
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55I plan to incorporate the recent printing features of gtk+ and to move away from
56gnomeprint.  Ehnancing international text support using Pango is the immediate
57next steps.  Dialogs to set the parameters for the xpaint-derived image
58processing functions are planned. Also planned is the incorporation of a small
59extension language in the code base to support high level app logic.
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61For general comments please send mail to Andy Tai <atai@gnu.org>
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