The Gimp 2.5.0 beta
Posted on Saturday, April 19 2008 @ 20:13 CEST by Thomas De MaesschalckThis is an unstable development version of the GNU Image Manipulation Program.
Changelog:
Core:
- improved rectangle tool drawing for narrow mode
- ported lots (but not all) drawing code to Cairo
- optimized image rendering by using pre-multiplied alpha
- use new GLib features such as GRegex
- use new GTK+ features such as the new GtkTooltip API
- much improved GimpCurve object
- cleaner and smaller tool options
- enable brush scaling for the Smudge tool
- added debugging framework that can be enabled at run-time
- depend on GEGL and use it optionally in some color operations
- optional GEGL processing for all color tools
- add proper settings objects for all color tools
- add list of recently used settings to all color tools
- added experimental GEGL tool to use arbitrary GEGL operations
- event filtering and smoothing for better paint tool performance
- added motion constraints in the Move Tool
- some operations do not any longer automatically add an alpha channel
- some preparation for tagging resource files
- cutting a selection doesn't clear the selection any longer
- added new polygon select tool
- load brushes and other data files recursively (search through subdirs)
- started work on language selector for the text tool (unfinished)
- allow to set opacity of the transform tool preview
- merged toolbox menu into the image menu
- always keep an image window around
- improved image statusbar
- dropped 'documents' in favor of ~/.recently-used.xbel
- started to work on text box functionality in the text tool
- numerous bug fixes and cleanups
- dicom: improved handling of 16 bit image data
- help: use GIO to access the help index
- print: moved Page Setup out of the Print dialog
- psd-load: rewritten, cleaner and more features
- randomize: added previews
- ripple: added a Phase Shift control
- screenshot: optionally add the mouse cursor image on an extra layer
- uri: use GIO/GVfs where available
- whirlpinch: allow a larger range for the whirl angle
- allow to specify colors using CSS color names
- added new method Image.new_layer()
- enforce R5RS syntax for 'let'
- improved Frosty Logo script
- added new text layer API
- added gimp-vectors-export-to-file and gimp-vectors-export-to-string
- added procedure to test for existance of a procedure in the PDB
- improved error handling for procedures
- added some Cairo utilities
- allow to use markup in tooltips
- libgimpthumb doesn't any longer depend on other GIMP libraries
- use the gimptool program on Unix, too, instead of the gimptool script
- create the list of supported MIME types at compile-time
- gimp shows library versions when called with '--version --verbose'
Program Information Category: Multimedia Type: Free Version: 2.5.0 beta Size: Works on: Windows Product page: here |
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