glfs/xsoft/office/gimp/gimp-intro.xml

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<title>Introduction to gimp</title>

<screen>Download location (HTTP):       <ulink url="&gimp-download-http;"/>
Download location (FTP):        <ulink url="&gimp-download-ftp;"/>
Version used:                   &gimp-version;
Package size:                   &gimp-size;
Estimated Disk space required:  &gimp-buildsize;</screen>

<screen>Additional Downloads:
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/fonts/freefonts-0.10.tar.gz"/>
<ulink
url="ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v1.2/v1.2.3/gimp-data-extras-1.2.0.tar.bz2"/></screen>

<para>The gimp package contains the GNU Image Manipulation Program. This
is useful for photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.</para>

<screen>gimp depends on:
<xref linkend="GTK"/>
gimp will utilize:
<xref linkend="libtiff"/>, <xref linkend="libpng"/>, <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>, 
<xref linkend="aalib"/>, <ulink url="http://starship.python.net/~gward/mpeglib/mpeg_lib-1.3.1.tar.gz">mpeg_lib-1.3.1</ulink>, <xref linkend="Python"/> and 
<xref linkend="perl-modules"/>:Gtk-Perl-&Gtk-Perl-version;, PDL-&PDL-version; and Parse-RecDescent-&Parse-RecDescent-version;</screen>

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