GNU Paint

Table of contents

• Introduction to Gpaint
• Downloading Gpaint

Introduction to Gpaint

GNU Paint (gpaint) is a simple, easy-to-use paint program for GNOME, the GNU Desktop. Gpaint starts as a port of xpaint and takes advantages of features unique to the GNOME environment. Gpaint is licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.

Curent Features:

• Drawing tools--ovals, freehand, polygon, text, with fill or shallow for polygons and closed freehand.
• Cut and paste by selecting irregular regions or polygons.
• Print support using gnome-print (still flaky, will be improved upon next release)
• Modern, ease-to-use user interface with tool and color palettes
• Editing multiple image at the same time without runnng multiple instance of the image editor
• All image processing features present in xpaint

Screenshot (GNOME 2)

Downloading Gpaint

download current source:

GNOME 1 version: version 0.2.2

GNOME 2 version: version 0.2.3

Latest development source can be obtained via the GNU CVS repository at Savannah.gnu.org. The CVS repository can be checked out through anonymous (pserver) CVS with the following instruction set. When prompted for a password for anoncvs, simply press the Enter key.

cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/gpaint login

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/gpaint co gpaint

Updates from within the module's directory do not need the -d parameter.

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Updated: November 14, 2002 atai