Finally after more than a year a new version of The GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program for Windows is available. Read more...
Here is a list of the more important user-visible changes in the Windows-specific parts of GIMP and GTK+ since the previous major release (2000-12-26). For a more detailled list of changes, see the various ChangeLog files in the source code. GLib 2.0 has been released. GIMP and GTK+ thus now depend on those DLLs. The GLib 2.0 DLL names will not change, even if GLib 2.0.1, 2.0.2 etc are released, as these releases will be binary compatible. (The GLib 1.3.x series were development versions, and thus by definition without any promise of binary compaibility, which has meant that each version has had differently named DLLs.) GTK+, and thus GIMP, now runs on Windows also in 256-colour display modes. GTK+ now handles cut and paste of non-ASCII text to/from the Windows clipboard much better. GTK+ now handles intra-application drag-and-drop. You can use drag-and-drop in a couple of places in the GIMP user interface, for instance the Layers, Channel and Paths dialog. Some new "unofficial" plug-ins have been included. There is now a plug-in that interfaces to Photoshop plug-ins. It is still very experimental. Please note that The GIMP is a Linux port for Windows. Therefore this software should be considered experimental or beta. The program(s) might crash unexpectedly or behave otherwise strangely. Download The GIMP 1.2.3 for Windows (Installer Version) Note on GIF support: Because of patent issues with the LZW compression algorithm the installer does not install the ability to 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. Then download the files gimp-gif-1.2.3-20020310.zip and libtiff-lzw-3.5.6-beta.zip (from a server in Finland). Unzip and put the gif.exe in your GIMP plug-ins folder. Put the libtiff.dll in your bin folder (replacing the libtiff.dll put there by the installer). Local download added
Here is a list of the more important user-visible changes in the Windows-specific parts of GIMP and GTK+ since the previous major release (2000-12-26). For a more detailled list of changes, see the various ChangeLog files in the source code. GLib 2.0 has been released. GIMP and GTK+ thus now depend on those DLLs. The GLib 2.0 DLL names will not change, even if GLib 2.0.1, 2.0.2 etc are released, as these releases will be binary compatible. (The GLib 1.3.x series were development versions, and thus by definition without any promise of binary compaibility, which has meant that each version has had differently named DLLs.) GTK+, and thus GIMP, now runs on Windows also in 256-colour display modes. GTK+ now handles cut and paste of non-ASCII text to/from the Windows clipboard much better. GTK+ now handles intra-application drag-and-drop. You can use drag-and-drop in a couple of places in the GIMP user interface, for instance the Layers, Channel and Paths dialog. Some new "unofficial" plug-ins have been included. There is now a plug-in that interfaces to Photoshop plug-ins. It is still very experimental. Please note that The GIMP is a Linux port for Windows. Therefore this software should be considered experimental or beta. The program(s) might crash unexpectedly or behave otherwise strangely. Download The GIMP 1.2.3 for Windows (Installer Version) Note on GIF support: Because of patent issues with the LZW compression algorithm the installer does not install the ability to 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. Then download the files gimp-gif-1.2.3-20020310.zip and libtiff-lzw-3.5.6-beta.zip (from a server in Finland). Unzip and put the gif.exe in your GIMP plug-ins folder. Put the libtiff.dll in your bin folder (replacing the libtiff.dll put there by the installer). Local download added
