source: xsoft/office/gimp/gimp-intro.xml@ 146073c

<sect2>
<title>Introduction to <application>gimp</application></title>

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

<sect3><title>Package information</title>
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink
url="&gimp-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink
url="&gimp-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download size: &gimp-size;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Estimated Disk space required:
&gimp-buildsize;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Estimated build time:
&gimp-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
</sect3>

<sect3><title>Additional downloads</title>
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/fonts/freefonts-0.10.tar.gz"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v1.2/v1.2.5/gimp-data-extras-1.2.0.tar.bz2"/></para></listitem></itemizedlist>
</sect3>
                                                                                
<sect3><title><application>gimp</application> dependencies</title>
<sect4><title>Required</title>
<para><xref linkend="GTK"/></para></sect4>
<sect4><title>Optional</title>
<para><xref linkend="libtiff"/>, <xref linkend="libpng"/>, <xref
linkend="libjpeg"/>, gimp-print,
<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;</para></sect4>
</sect3>

</sect2>