Gimp 2.0 released

shbaz · Tue 30/03/2004 23:51:52

The Gimp is now available in it's shiny brand-new 2.0 form. The interface has much improved and there is a "better" windows version. I'm told that people with thousands of fonts have problems opening it and you need to use a debug statement in the launch line like "-nofonts" or something.

Anyways, go, download. Some of the new features include font editing, window docking, and photoshop (psd) files can be opened AND saved.

Gilbert · Wed 31/03/2004 02:05:30

Yes I joined their mailing list and I knew that several days ago.

The only problem was, still, like in the beta releases, there're always annoying messages about it couldn't load a Chinese font, etc. I don't have time to invest yet.

shbaz · Wed 31/03/2004 02:12:34

Yeah, I actually found out several days ago too on the Blender forums but I forgot to tell everyone here.

ThunderStorm · Wed 31/03/2004 13:21:29

Unfortunately, the "better" windows version won't run on my Win98.

Even worse, SecondChance, whose job is to create backups of all changed files, did nothing but creating an outdated autoexec.bat file when I tried to get my system back to where it was before installing Gimp2.

Minimi · Wed 31/03/2004 14:45:50

whoah!!!! Thank you so much for this information! I'm using The Gimp for nearly all my game images, and I just finished installing The Gimp 2.0! This is really alot better than my previous version 1.2.5! The first thing I noticed is the amount of plugins available, though... im going to look alittle more to the interface, and changes

Now my images just have to be awesome with this update!

LGM · Wed 31/03/2004 16:52:19

Anyone figure out where the line tool is yet?

Evil · Wed 31/03/2004 17:06:31

Behold the power of stupidity.

Minimi · Wed 31/03/2004 17:12:28

Quote from: LilGryphMaster on Wed 31/03/2004 16:52:19
Anyone figure out where the line tool is yet?

hold shift while using the pencil or brush tool!

shbaz · Wed 31/03/2004 18:49:02

Quote from: Evil on Wed 31/03/2004 17:06:31
Behold the power of stupidity.

What's that supposed to mean? Things like crop, line, circle, etc, aren't as straightforward with the Gimp as other apps, it doesn't make someone stupid.

But RTFM next time.

QuoteUnfortunately, the "better" windows version won't run on my Win98.

That's why I said "better." It's a bit buggy, it's been over 3 years in development and there are a LOT of changes. Try posting at the Gimp developers forum for help, they'll probably have a fix up for you.

Pau · Wed 31/03/2004 19:25:04

I use the Gimp 1.2.
I have two copies from magazine CDs, but only one of them has .gif support. I think is because there are legal problems related to the GIF compression algorithm in the USA.

Is it possible to have the GIF exporter feature in the version 2.0?

shbaz · Wed 31/03/2004 19:45:11

It's downloaded seperately, because of legal issues.

LGM · Thu 01/04/2004 03:46:46

I knew about the whole shift-clicky thing.. But it's a very odd way to draw lines.. I was just wondering if there was a hidden button I wasn't finding.

And fuck you, Harry

Gilbert · Thu 01/04/2004 03:51:42

Well the good thing about it was that you can quickly draw lines with nearly every drawing tools (I never tried PS, PSP, etc., so I don't know how they work).

The bad thing was that programming using Ctrl, Shift and Alt clashes with the default hot keys for Chinese input methods, so it's REALLY annoying (especially when you need to hold more than one of them simultaneously, eg. when constrainting to aspect ratio).

shbaz · Thu 01/04/2004 04:00:22

Gilbert, don't you know how to program? Edit the code and change the hotkeys..

But then again, I don't know how hard that'd be. Alternatively you could plead to the developers about how inconvenient it is and demand a chinese version.

Gilbert · Thu 01/04/2004 04:05:49

No, I don't know how to programme for sure, and I don't want to waste my time looking at these huge sources. And I'm never interested in compiling something for window$.

The input method hotkeys can be changed of course, but I just don't want to.

It's just funny that developers did make localization on their softwares but didn't care on some obvious problems on some systems.

shbaz · Thu 01/04/2004 05:32:58

Quote from: Gilbot V7000a on Thu 01/04/2004 04:05:49
It's just funny that developers did make localization on their softwares but didn't care on some obvious problems on some systems.

Blender is another program that uses shift and ctrl a lot, it'd probably be terrible for you too.

I would have never thought of it as a potential problem. The Control key is there specifically for things like this, and the shift key is absolutely necessary for typing in most languages. Alt probably stands for Alternate, perhaps an alternative to control.

In the end, it really does suck for people using Chinese keyboards.. perhaps if you posted in the developers forum a friendly coder would change the necessary values and make a friendly Gimp for you? It can't be that hard to do for people who know the code.

Gilbert · Thu 01/04/2004 05:58:18

Heh there's nothing called Chinese keyboards, we just use US layout keyboards.

Ctrl/Shift or ALT keys when pressed alone are okay most of the time, it's only troublesome when some of these softwares do things also when they're pressed simultaneously.

SSH · Fri 02/04/2004 07:33:51

GIMP 2.0 looks much better than before, but I see that it can't import PSp8 files, and my trial has expired. Anyone know a free program that could convert psp8 files tophotoshop, xcf or some other layered format?

shbaz · Fri 02/04/2004 22:30:50

Quote from: SSH on Fri 02/04/2004 07:33:51
GIMP 2.0 looks much better than before, but I see that it can't import PSp8 files, and my trial has expired. Anyone know a free program that could convert psp8 files tophotoshop, xcf or some other layered format?

Hmm.. since no one has responded, you could transport them layer by layer in a format like .tga or .tif if it's a necessity.