source: xsoft/other/gimp.xml@ 5e11bc38

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  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY gimp-download-http "http://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.8/gimp-&gimp-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY gimp-download-ftp  " ">
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  <!ENTITY gimp-size          "20 MB">
  <!ENTITY gimp-buildsize     "642 MB (additional 553 MB to run the test suite,
                                the help files add from 288 MB (en only) to 1.3
                                GB (all 18 languages), typically increasing by
                                54 MB per translation)">
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                                suite, for the help files from 0.6 SBU (en only)
                                to 19 SBU (all) - typically 1.3 SBU
                                per translation)">

  <!ENTITY gimp-help-version  "2.8.1">
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  <!ENTITY gimp-help-size     "133 MB">
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<sect1 id="gimp" xreflabel="Gimp-&gimp-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="gimp.html" ?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Gimp-&gimp-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="gimp">
    <primary sortas="a-Gimp">Gimp</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Gimp</title>

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

    &lfs75_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <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 MD5 sum: &gimp-md5sum;
        </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>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Optional help files: <ulink url="&gimp-help-download;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &gimp-help-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &gimp-help-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Optional patch:
          <ulink url="&patch-root;/gimp-&gimp-version;-device_info-1.patch"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
<!--      <listitem>
        <para>
          Compressed Patch MD5 sum: 5312793a67132131a6e3360e76f392e4
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
         Compressed Patch size: 486 KB
        </para>
      </listitem> -->
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Gimp Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="gegl"/> and
      <xref linkend="gtk2"/> 
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="pygtk"/> (including the gtk and pango modules)
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="aalib"/>,
      <xref linkend="alsa-lib"/>,
      <xref linkend="curl"/>,
      <xref linkend="dbus-glib"/>,
      <xref linkend="gs"/> (with libgs installed),
      <xref linkend="gvfs"/>,
      <xref linkend="iso-codes"/>,
      <xref linkend="jasper"/>,
      <xref linkend="lcms"/> or <xref linkend="lcms2"/>,
      <xref linkend="libexif"/>,
      <xref linkend="libmng"/>,
      <xref linkend="librsvg"/>,
      <ulink url="http://wvware.sourceforge.net/libwmf.html">libwmf</ulink>,
      <xref linkend="poppler"/>,
      an <xref linkend="server-mail"/> (that provides a
      <command>sendmail</command> program),
      <xref linkend="udev-extras"/> (for GUdev),
      <xref linkend="webkitgtk2"/> (required for the help-plugin) and
      <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional, for optimizing the PNG files in the
    help system</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <ulink url="http://pngnq.sourceforge.net/">pngnq</ulink> and
      <ulink url="http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/">pngcrush</ulink>
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
      <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/gimp"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Gimp</title>

    <para>
      In order to get rid of an annoying message when running from a terminal
      and/or if you wish to run the test suite, optionally use the
      following patch:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../gimp-&gimp-version;-device_info-1.patch</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Install <application>Gimp</application> by running
      the following commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --without-gvfs &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To test the results (requires an X-Windowed terminal) issue:
      <command>make check</command>.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
      user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      The <filename>gimp-help</filename> tarball contains images and English
      text help for help files, together with translations. It is
      &quot;work in progress&quot;.
    </para>

    <para>
      If you downloaded the <filename>gimp-help</filename> tarball, unpack
      it and change into the root of the newly created source tree. Prepare for
      the build with the following command:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>ALL_LINGUAS=&quot;ca da de el en en_GB es fr it ja ko nl nn pt_BR ru sl sv zh_CN&quot; \
./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Remove from <envar>ALL_LINGUAS</envar> the codes for any languages which
      you do not wish to install. Alternatively, remove the line starting with
      <envar>ALL_LINGUAS</envar>, if you wish to build all languages. 
    </para>

<!--    <para>
      Alternatively, if you wish to build languages including Catalan,
      apply the patch:
    </para>

<screen role="nodump"><userinput>xzcat ../gimp-help-2.8.0-build_fixes-1.patch.xz \
 | patch -p1 &amp;&amp;
./autogen.sh -prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Again, you can specify a subset of languages by specifying
      <envar>ALL_LINGUAS</envar> in front of <command>./autogen.sh</command>, but
      this time including &quot;ca&quot;.
    </para>
 -->
    <para>
      Now build the help files:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Issue the following commands as the
      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user to install the help
      files:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
chown -R root:root /usr/share/gimp/2.0/help</userinput></screen>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/update-icons-and-desktop.xml"/>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands" id="gimp-cmd-explanations">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <envar>ALL_LINGUAS=&quot;ca da de el en en_GB ...&quot;</envar>: by
      default, the help files will be rendered in all the available languages.
      Remove the codes of any languages you do not wish to build.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>--without-gvfs</parameter>: the choice of the backend to
      handle URI information, e.g., when dragging images from a browser into the
      <application>Gimp</application>, is made at compile time.  This parameter will
      ensure that <application>cURL</application> is used at run-time, instead of
      <application>Gvfs</application>.  You can omit this if you are installing
      <application>Gvfs</application> AND will be running <command>gvfsd</command>,
      e.g., in a <application>GNOME</application> desktop.
    </para>

    <para><option>--disable-python</option>: This option is necessary if
    you have not installed <application>PyGTK</application>.</para>

<!--<para>
      <command>./autogen.sh</command> <parameter>-prefix=/usr</parameter>: In this case, using
      <command>autoreconf</command> to regenerate <filename>configure</filename>
      does not work, because of how the gimp-help developers chose to address
      problems with the autotools.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>xzcat ../gimp-help-2.8.0-build_fixes-1.patch.xz</command>:
      this patch is large, so it has been compressed with
      <application>xz</application>. You are encouraged to be suspicious of
      all patches until you have looked at them. Use <command>view</command>
      to read the compressed patch before you apply it.
    </para>
-->
    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/gtk-doc-rebuild.xml"/>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring The Gimp</title>

    <sect3 id="gimp-config">
      <title>Config Files</title>

      <para>
        <filename>/etc/gimp/2.0/*</filename> and
        <filename>~/.gimp-2.8/gimprc</filename>
      </para>

      <indexterm zone="gimp gimp-config">
        <primary sortas="e-AA.gimp-2.0/gimprc">~/.gimp-2.0/gimprc</primary>
      </indexterm>

      <indexterm zone="gimp gimp-config">
        <primary sortas="e-etc-gimp-2.0-star">/etc/gimp/2.0/*</primary>
      </indexterm>

    </sect3>

    <sect3>
      <title>Configuration Information</title>

      <para>
        The <application>Gimp</application> executes a configuration wizard
        for each user upon their initial use of the program.
      </para>

      <para>
        The <application>Gimp</application> executes the
        <command>firefox</command> web browser by default to view the help
        files. If you do not have <application>Firefox</application>, or
        prefer a different web browser, you can set a new system value in
        <filename>/etc/gimp/2.0/gimprc</filename>. Execute the following
        command as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user,
        replacing <replaceable>&lt;browser&gt;</replaceable> with your
        preferred web browser:
      </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>echo '(web-browser "<replaceable>&lt;browser&gt;</replaceable> %s")' &gt;&gt; /etc/gimp/2.0/gimprc</userinput></screen>

    </sect3>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          gimp, gimp-2.8, gimp-console, gimp-console-2.8 and
          gimptool-2.0
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libgimp-2.0.so, libgimpbase-2.0.so, libgimpcolor-2.0.so,
          libgimpconfig-2.0.so, libgimpmath-2.0.so, libgimpmodule-2.0.so,
          libgimpthumb-2.0.so, libgimpui-2.0.so and libgimpwidgets-2.0.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /etc/gimp,
          /usr/include/gimp-2.0,
          /usr/lib/gimp,
          /usr/share/gimp,
          /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/{libgimp,libgimpbase,libgimpcolor},
          /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/{libgimpconfig,libgimpmath},
          /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/{libgimpmodule,libgimpthumb} and
          /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libgimpwidgets
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="gimp-prog">
        <term><command>gimp</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a symbolic link to <command>gimp-2.8</command>.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gimp gimp-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-gimp">gimp</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gimp-2.8">
        <term><command>gimp-2.8</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the Gnu Image Manipulation Program. It works with a variety
            of image formats and provides a large selection of tools.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gimp gimp-2.8">
            <primary sortas="b-gimp-2.8">gimp-2.8</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gimp-console">
        <term><command>gimp-console</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a symbolic link to <command>gimp-console-2.8</command>.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gimp gimp-console">
            <primary sortas="b-gimp-console">gimp-console</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gimp-console-2.8">
        <term><command>gimp-console-2.8</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a console program that behaves as if The
            <application>Gimp</application> was called with the
            <option>--no-interface</option> command-line option.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gimp gimp-console-2.8">
            <primary sortas="b-gimp-console-2.8">gimp-console-2.8</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gimptool-2.0">
        <term><command>gimptool-2.0</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a tool that can build plug-ins or scripts and install them
            if they are distributed in one source file.
            <command>gimptool-2.0</command> can also be used by programs that
            need to know what libraries and include-paths The
            <application>Gimp</application> was compiled with.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gimp gimptool-2.0">
            <primary sortas="b-gimptool-2.0">gimptool-2.0</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libgimp-2.0">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgimp-2.0.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            provides C bindings for The <application>Gimp</application>'s
            Procedural Database (PDB) which offers an interface to core functions
            and to functionality provided by plug-ins.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gimp libgimp-2.0">
            <primary sortas="c-libgimp-2.0">libgimp-2.0.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libgimpbase-2.0">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgimpbase-2.0.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            provides the C functions for basic
            <application>Gimp</application> functionality such as determining
            enumeration data types, gettext translation, determining The
            <application>Gimp</application>'s version number and capabilities,
            handling data files and accessing the environment.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gimp libgimpbase-2.0">
            <primary sortas="c-libgimpbase-2.0">libgimpbase-2.0.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libgimpcolor-2.0">
        <term><filename
        class="libraryfile">libgimpcolor-2.0.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            provides the C functions relating to RGB, HSV and CMYK colors as
            well as converting colors between different color models and
            performing adaptive supersampling on an area.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gimp libgimpcolor-2.0">
            <primary sortas="c-libgimpcolor-2.0">libgimpcolor-2.0.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libgimpconfig-2.0">
        <term><filename
        class="libraryfile">libgimpconfig-2.0.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            contains C functions for reading and writing config information.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gimp libgimpconfig-2.0">
            <primary sortas="c-libgimpconfig-2.0">libgimpconfig-2.0.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libgimpmath-2.0">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgimpmath-2.0.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            contains C functions which provide mathematical definitions and
            macros, manipulate 3x3 transformation matrices, set up and manipulate
            vectors and the MD5 message-digest algorithm.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gimp libgimpmath-2.0">
            <primary sortas="c-libgimpmath-2.0">libgimpmath-2.0.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libgimpmodule-2.0">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgimpmodule-2.0.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            provides the C functions which implements module loading using
            GModule and keeps a list of GimpModule's found in a given
            searchpath.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gimp libgimpmodule-2.0">
            <primary sortas="c-libgimpmodule-2.0">libgimpmodule-2.0.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libgimpthumb-2.0">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgimpthumb-2.0.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            provides the C functions for handling The
            <application>Gimp</application>'s thumbnail objects.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gimp libgimpthumb-2.0">
            <primary sortas="c-libgimpthumb-2.0">libgimpthumb-2.0.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libgimpui-2.0">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgimpui-2.0.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            contains The <application>Gimp</application>'s common user
            interface functions.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gimp libgimpui-2.0">
            <primary sortas="c-libgimpui-2.0">libgimpui-2.0.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libgimpwidgets-2.0">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgimpwidgets-2.0.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            contains The <application>Gimp</application>
            and <application>GTK</application>'s widget creation and
            manipulation functions.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gimp libgimpwidgets-2.0">
            <primary
            sortas="c-libgimpwidgets-2.0">libgimpwidgets-2.0.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>