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GIMP on Windows MEFiled in Notes on May 21st 05 . The GIMP Open Source image editing program is available for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows. Gimp 2 releases are fully ‘supported’ (in the sense that bugs are tracked by the Gimp project team members for Windows 2000 and XP, earlier versions of the OS are not supported but the package will work. The Windows version of the Gimp is supplied as two installers – the first installs the GTK+ libraries and the second installs the Gimp itself. Other applications can then use the GTK+ libraries, used to render images on the screen. To get the Gimp working on an ancient Compaq Armada 7400 laptop with 128Mb of RAM and running Windows ME, you just have to download an earlier version of the GTK+ libraries, and alter one setting on the GIMP installer.
The files above are ZIP files that contain a ‘set-up’ file. Unzip the setup files and…
My old laptop is having a second lease of life running OpenOffice 1.1.4, the Gimp, Firefox and Thunderbird as the application software. I might try putting Ubuntu on the Compaq Armada 7400 as the main operating system – but I need to know that Ubuntu will recognise the modem first! PS - the screen grabs in this post were all converted using the Gimp. They were converted to index mode using the Web palette but without dithering, so the title bars on the windows look funny as Windows ME insists on using a gradient fill in the title bar…. I hate dithering on screen grabs. This is filed under Notes. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are closed for this post. |
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