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Legalese, Contributions, Changelog and TODO

Legalese

The Gimp user manual may be reproduced and distributed in whole or in part, subject to the following conditions:

Copyright (c) 1997 by Karin Kylander

Email: karin@frozenriver.ale.se

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Contributions

First we want to thank all the developers of the Gimp:

Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis, Federico Mena-Quintero, Xach Beane, Adrian Likins, Miguel de Icaza, Tom Bech, Sven Neuman, Albert Cahalan, Adam D. Moss, Torsten Martinsen, Tristan Tarrant, Andreas Beck, David Mosberger, Gordon Matzigkeit, Peter Kirchgessner, Eric L. Hernes, Francisco Bustamante, Thorsten Schnier, Jochen Friedrich, Tim Newsome, Christoph Hoegl,Xavier Bouchoux, Owen Taylor, Andy Thomas, Ray Lehtiniemi,Marcelo de G Malheiros, Miles O'Neal, Chris Laas, Daniel Risacher, Gerd Knorr, Michel Taylor, Ole Steinfatt, Michael Sweet, Eiichi Takamori, Tracy Scott, Gordon Matzigkeit, Andrew Kieschnick, Alexander Schulz, Thomas Noel, Robert L.Cross, Kevin Turner, Sean Cier, Nick Lamb, Kim-Minh Kaplan, Matthias Cramer, Lauri Alanko, Tim Newsome, Bucky LaDieu, Scott Goehring,Morten Eriksen, Raphaël Quinet, Daniel Skarda, Daniel Dunbar, Jens Ch. Restemeier, Marc Lehmann, Scott Draves, Alessandro Baldoni, Michael Schubart,Dan Risache, Josh MacDonald, Eduardo Perez, Daniel Cotting, Nathan Summers, John Beales, Marc Bless, John Breen, Brent Burton, Jim Geuther,Pavel Grinfeld, Matthias Greim, Jan Hubicka, Shuji Narazaki, Stephen Norris, Tim Rowley, Christoph Hoegl, and all of you we have forgotten (please write to us karingimp@frozenriver.ale.se)

We also want to give credit to everybody coming with suggestions, tips, constructive criticism, contributions etc..

• Dov Grobgeld author of Writing a Script Fu,
• John Sigerson pdf file format,
• Bryan White HTML file format
• Aristidi Yannick French translation
• Jörg Haas German translation
• Eric Galluzzo
• Nicholas Lamb tip about selections,
• Michael Kaiser correction layers,
• Cristoph Hogeld contrib correction
• Marco Schmidt
• Adrian Links
• and all of you we have forgot (please write to us karingimp@frozenriver.ale.se)

Changelog

0.7

• Plug-ins chapter is now separated in to several chapters
• Many new images and examples in Image menu chapter
• Many new plug-ins described
• Minor correction is in all chapters
• A raw TOC

0.6

• GPL license
• New Chapters: What is Gimp, Image menu, Selection menu, Edit menu, Legals.. and Writing a Script Fu thanks to Dov Grobgeld
• Many new images in nearly all chapters.
• Major and Minor correction is in all chapters
• More plug-ins described.

0.5

• first public release

TODO

• Images where it's needed
• "First Image" chapter
• INDEX
• Describe plug-ins
• More examples in all chapters
• Major and minor corrections
• Finish all Appendix
• Fix layout
• Fix sections 1,2,3 etc.
• Put chapters in right order.
• Fix general way to distinguish commands, names, etc.
• Translation to SGML
• Gimp history
• Gimp command line arguments
• Describe script-fu filters
• Get some good sleep.