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What's Ahead For The GIMP?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the or-rather-what-isn't dept.

Ur@eus writes "Hi, We have just interviewed Sven Neuman, lead developer on the Gimp. The interview covers the upcoming 1.2, 1.3 and 2.0 releases of the Gimp and how [they]will evolve further. You will find the interview here" Improved path support, GIMP/GNOME interaction and an improved rendering system are a few of the points that Sven addresses -- The GIMP has impressed for years and keeps getting better.

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  1. A Sad Gimp Story by Kismet · · Score: 4

    I recently started to work at a large International Software development firm. Our client was developing a business-to-business procurement solution that was to be global in every aspect. The program would be web-enabled.

    Development was to be Microsoft-centric. Coming from a strong Unix background, I decided to use whatever familiar Unix tools I could to get the job done in record time. Central to my strategy was Perl-Fu for Gimp. I would use it to automate the localization of the images in the product.

    It worked fabulously until Korean came along. I abruptly learned that the Gimp is incapable of rendering multibyte fonts. I suppose I should have checked that feature before I started, but the point is that I ended up having the company buy a copy of Macromedia Fireworks and scripting the enxtensions in JavaScript on Microsoft. What a pity.

    Anyway, I sure would like to see multibyte support in the Gimp someday.

  2. CMYK Color by linuxonceleron · · Score: 4
    To keep people from saying "Photoshop rules until GIMP has good press-ready CMYK" I think that the GIMP should be able to do CMYK color conversions. Also is there any way to interface the GIMP's plugins/script-fu to a web server to use as CGIs? On the fly generated images would be mucho cool.

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    1. Re:CMYK Color by Pinball+Wizard · · Score: 4
      a couple of the other replies mentioned net-fu.

      There is a great book you should pick up, Programming Web Graphics with Perl and GNU software, from O'reilly. This goes into detail about scripting the Gimp with Perl. You also learn about ImageMagick and other image scripting utilities.

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