feature freeze in October 1997. This meant that no new features would be added to the Gimp core libraries and program. GUM version 0.5 was also released early in October 1997. The developing work continued 759 for instructions on how to install them). The directory /pub/gimp/libs includes some of the libraries that enable some of Gimp’s optional features, such as the ability to load and save JPEG images. G imp Us e r’s Man u al 4 9 C h a p ter 4 Which Libraries Does Gimp Need? If you don’t have them already, you need to get the following libraries or pro- grams: • GTK+ (1.0.x), to compile Gimp. You

text box, but the Extension drop menu can tell you the available file formats (depending on the libraries you have installed and the conditions of the image you are trying to save). If The GIMP complains down. Unfortunately, this annoying situation is caused by an interaction between Windows and the libraries that GIMP links to: it cannot be fixed within GIMP. All you need to do, though, if this happens PostScript files. As with PostScript, GIMP’s support of the PDF format is through the free Ghostscript libraries. Pixel A pixel is a single dot, or ‘picture element’, of an image. A rectangular image may be

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to see the types supported by GIMP. The supported extensions change depending on your installed libraries. If GIMP complains, or if “JPEG” is grayed out in the Extensions menu, cancel out of everything uses plugins for reading and writing all file formats except XCF. These plugins may use external libraries or programs. For example, GIMP does not directly support PDF and PostScript. Instead, for reading several ways to install fonts on your system. You can drag-and-drop them to the “Fonts” folder in “Libraries” folder of your “Home Folder”. Or you may use Font Book, invoked by double-clicking the font file

down. Unfortunately, this annoying situation is caused by an interaction between Windows and the libraries that GIMP links to: it cannot be fixed within GIMP. All you need to do, though, if this happens the installation has finished. Registry entries have been created that allow ghostscript to find libraries. (These instructions courtesy of http://www.kirchgessner.net.) The format that is supposed to