Re: Fonts and Graphics. . .< GIMP INFO>

Earlier "gimp" was suggested as a (Windows) Freeware image manipulation
program. I have used (**and LOVE**) gimp under *NIX so I investigated.

Subsequent investigation brought the following information to light regarding .
gif and gimp under Windows (quoted from www.gimp.org),  FWIW.

HTH,
Fuzzy.

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No GIFs?
Because of patent issues with the LZW compression algorithm the installer does
not install the ability to load or save GIF files. Nor is the TIFF plug-in
capable of loading or saving LZW-compressed TIFF files. To be able to do these
things, make sure that either you are in a country where Unisys doesn't have a
patent on the LZW algorithm, or that you have a license from Unisys, and
download the file lzw-plugins-20001226.zip (available from the Finnish server
only). Unzip and put the gif, gifload and tiff plug-ins (.exe files) in your
GIMP plug-ins folder. Remove the tiff_nolzw plug-in put there by the installer.

Warnings
The Windows version is GIMP 1.2. The base GIMP code should be relatively
bug-free. The Windows code without doubt has bugs, though.
The GIMP for Windows is not really targetted at end-users yet. The program(s)
might crash unexpectedly or behave otherwise strangely. (But of course, so do
many commercial programs on Windows.) The stability seems to depend a lot on
the machine, display drivers, other software installed, and whatnot. Presumably
the more memory you have, the better GIMP works. (For any real image work, I
would say 128 megabytes is minimum.) Many people do find GIMP very useful.
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"Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are
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