On the website of the GNU Image Manipulation Program, better known as simply GIMP, we find a new preview on version 2.0 of the program. It is the second preview that we are presented with, since the previous one the following has been improved:
- 130828: Compile error with gcc 2.95 (Adrian Bunk)
- 35335: Curve tool doesn’t conserve black (Simon)
- 130866: Remove multiple PNG entries in file type dropdown (Brix)
- 106991: Add mnemonics for all menu items (finished by Mitch)
- 130869: Add smaller image templates (Dave Neary)
- 130916: Handle multiline texts better (Mitch)
- 120424: Add dirty flag to default image title (Brix)
- 130912: Fix rounding errors in JPEG plugin (keith@goatman.me.uk)
- 131016: Add support for layer offsets in multipage tiff loading (Pablo d’Angelo)
- 124073: Modify behavior of zoom tool to avoid funny fractions (Dave Neary, Simon)
- 131088: fix select-to-pattern script-fu (Mitch)
- 82478: Fix zoom handling in fractal explorer (Pedro Gimeno)
- 115793: Make thumbnail preview of indexed images match display (Pedro Gimeno)
- 130471: Handle RGBA images correctly in the CEL plug-in (Dov Grobgeld)
- 131109: Remove EMX specific code (Sven)
- 130118: Handle GIMP2_DIRECTORY with non-UTF-8 characters correctly (Tor Lillqvist, Sven)
- 82465: Make preview match image when image is greyscale (Sven)
- 92586: Force SF_IMAGE value to reflect the selected image (Sven)
- 116765: Fix selection artifacts while moving selections (Pedro Gimeno, Mitch)
- 131215: Only call bind_textdomain_codeset when available (Reinhard Geissler)
- 125141: Resolve API issues with GimpPixelFetcher and GimpRegionIterator (David Odin, Maurits Rijk)
- 109078: Fix histogram for graylevel images (Pedro Gimeno, Mitch)
- 131146: Fix drag & drop of patterns to layer masks (Dave Neary, Mitch)
- 128112: Use a better error message if help files are not present (Mitch)
- 78732: Don’t paste outside the visible screen, if possible (Mitch)
- 131561: Make “Condensed” fonts available for use (Manish Singh)
- 71922: Fix SuperNova preview for Alpha channel (David Odin)
- 82464: Fix SuperNova preview for greyscale images (David Odin)
- 121966: Fix SuperNova plugin (David Odin)
- 110610: Allow user to choose file formats even if the current image type is not supported by them (Pedro Gimeno)
- 131980: Fix crash in crop tool (David Odin, Sven)
- 131030: Allow saving data without pre-multiplying by alpha channel in tiff plug-in (Pablo d’Angelo, Dave Neary)
- 125864: Guides behave correctly when spacing is set to 1px (Brix)
- 131721: Fix handling of alpha channels across undo steps (Mitch)
- 128025: Fix behavior when there is a floating selection (Mitch)
- 131076: Make fuzzy select tool respect alpha channel in indexed mode (Mitch)
- 131779: Improve indexed scaling dialog (Mitch)
- 127673: Overlapping widgets in gradient editor ” rel=”external”>Mitch)
[break]The new preview can be downloaded as source here, Windows users can even download a precompiled binary to download.
| Version number | 2.0 Preview 2 |
| Website | The GIMP Homepage |
| Download | ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.0/testing/gimp-2.0pre2.tar.bz2 |
| License type | GPL |