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It's not necessary to run dist-upgrade to make it work. If you this command, you will upgrade your ubuntu to 10.4, so watch out!
A dist-upgrade is necessary if you run 10.04 Alpha (as I did for this hint): a simple upgrade would leave the GIMP at its previous version, if already installed as stable (2.6.8). In Ubuntu 9.10, an upgrade should be enough (but I haven't tried that): 10.04 isn't out yet, so making a distribution upgrade currently should leave the main system at 9.10 (at least, if you haven't edited your Ubuntu distribution sources) - or not?
.. An update: actually, the version of the currently installed unstable GIMP is 2.7.3-2010022601, even if it says 2.7.1 in the Info window.
.. An update: actually, the version of the currently installed unstable GIMP is 2.7.3-2010022601, even if it says 2.7.1 in the Info window.
Since the 2.8.2 version, GIMP runs on OSX natively. No X11 environment is required. The official GIMP 2.10 DMG installer (linked above) is a stock GIMP build without any add-ons. Just open the downloaded DMG and drag and drop GIMP into your 'Applications' folder. The Normalmap plug-in only got GIMP 2.8 compatibility and native Windows 64-bit binaries. The DDS plug-in that allows opening and exporting Direct Draw Surface files got a bit further. Apart from the update for GIMP 2.8 and Win64 binaries it now supports saving the existing mipmap chain (for 2D images only) and has DXT compression quality.
dist-upgrade will not upgrade to 10.04.
To upgrade to a new release, you need to update your apt-get sources file.
dist-upgrade will only update packages that contain several different sub-packages say package groups. (not sure what the correct verbiage is for this)
To upgrade to a new release, you need to update your apt-get sources file.
dist-upgrade will only update packages that contain several different sub-packages say package groups. (not sure what the correct verbiage is for this)
ok. The thing is, you don't need to make that command in ubuntu 9.04 and save a lot of downloading just making sudo apt-get install gimp after putting the ppa repo. It worked for me.
Good tip.
On a side note: 'just' and 'simply', two of the most overused words in Mac land.
On a side note: 'just' and 'simply', two of the most overused words in Mac land.
Buy excel 2016 standalone. Alas, at the end of all this, GIMP still sucks.
Yeah, anything for free sure is horrible! Why don't the developers just shoot themselves for even trying to offer a product to the public for free!! I'd much rather use buggy software offered up by big companies like Adobe so I can shell out every last hard earned penny I have! Even though I don't personally need all the features Photoshop has and the Gimp has all the features I do need ..LOL!
All joking aside, I've seen the Gimp come a LONG way since I first started using it!!! It really does do everything I need an image editing program to do. I'm extremely happy for all the hard work and FREE time developers have offered of themselves to make the Gimp a product I use daily!!! Thankfully there are still a few human beings out there developing software for other reasons than worshipping the all mighty dollar!!!
All joking aside, I've seen the Gimp come a LONG way since I first started using it!!! It really does do everything I need an image editing program to do. I'm extremely happy for all the hard work and FREE time developers have offered of themselves to make the Gimp a product I use daily!!! Thankfully there are still a few human beings out there developing software for other reasons than worshipping the all mighty dollar!!!
Why not build it completely native (with Quartz)? You can use MacPorts (add +quartz and +no-x11 to variants.conf) or Gtk-OSX. The GIMP developers make good use of both Gtk's quartz backend and the Mac integration toolkit provided by Gtk-OSX.
But this doesn't seem to be easy at all, at least after reading the - often outdated - information available on the web.
Well, if the current GIMP/X11 packagers would come out with an experimental 2.7.x Mac OS X build (à la Ubuntu in this hint), that would be very nice (considering also the quite good quality of their stable realeases): but obviously that's for them to decide.. ;-) :-)
A truly native GIMP (Aqua, without the need for X11) would be even better (as also with Inkscape, where a native version seems to be in the works): but probably there are still big problems to be solved before that will be possibile.
Well, if the current GIMP/X11 packagers would come out with an experimental 2.7.x Mac OS X build (à la Ubuntu in this hint), that would be very nice (considering also the quite good quality of their stable realeases): but obviously that's for them to decide.. ;-) :-)
A truly native GIMP (Aqua, without the need for X11) would be even better (as also with Inkscape, where a native version seems to be in the works): but probably there are still big problems to be solved before that will be possibile.
Gimp OS X builds are here: http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Download.html
I'd like to point out that this is not a Mac OS X hint, but an Ubuntu linux hint.
If it really was a mac hint, why do we need to run ubuntu in a virtual environment?
In short this hint is really just saying, if you want to try the experimental GIMP version, use linux. And the real hint here is off topic with the obvious suggestion that if you want to run another OS in a virtual environment, use a virtualization package.
If it really was a mac hint, why do we need to run ubuntu in a virtual environment?
In short this hint is really just saying, if you want to try the experimental GIMP version, use linux. And the real hint here is off topic with the obvious suggestion that if you want to run another OS in a virtual environment, use a virtualization package.
Of course, in a way you are right: essentially, I just collected some Ubuntu Linux information from OSNews, Ars Technica and Google, and then tried to present it for Mac OS X users.
But currently this seems to be the only way to try GIMP 2.7.x on Mac OS X: i.e., through virtualization. (BTW, probably it could also he done for older PPC Macs, with Virtual PC 7: just add 'i8042.noloop' and 'noreplace-paravirt' to the boot parameters; slooooow, of course..)
If someone here (for example, the 'GIMP on OS X' developers) is capable of building a Mac OS X (X11) binary of GIMP 2.7.1 or 2.7.3 or whatever, that would certainly be very cool, indeed: but probably, as I said before, this is not an easy task.
So, better to vitualizaze than nothing, I'd say.. ;-) :-)
But currently this seems to be the only way to try GIMP 2.7.x on Mac OS X: i.e., through virtualization. (BTW, probably it could also he done for older PPC Macs, with Virtual PC 7: just add 'i8042.noloop' and 'noreplace-paravirt' to the boot parameters; slooooow, of course..)
If someone here (for example, the 'GIMP on OS X' developers) is capable of building a Mac OS X (X11) binary of GIMP 2.7.1 or 2.7.3 or whatever, that would certainly be very cool, indeed: but probably, as I said before, this is not an easy task.
So, better to vitualizaze than nothing, I'd say.. ;-) :-)
Ehm, *virtualize*, of course: sorry for the typo..
So let me get this straight -- in order to try one feature of a single package, you're advocating installing an entire OS? To say I'm flabbergasted would be an understatement. What kind of brain death does it take to come up with such nonsense?
Ehm.. I already had Ubuntu installed, and so it was quite easy to try out the new GIMP.
And many people have Ubuntu virtual machines, being the most popular Linux distro: so, this hint was aimed first of all at them (even if it wasn't explicitly said).
In no way are you forced to try the GIMP's single window mode or to install Ubuntu in a virtual machine, if you are not interested in that: but, *if* this is interesting to you, you can do it quite easily, and it's even fun!
So, in essence, if no native Mac OS X GIMP development version is yet available, one looks at other ways to do things, for the time being!
Ah - much ado about nothing..
And many people have Ubuntu virtual machines, being the most popular Linux distro: so, this hint was aimed first of all at them (even if it wasn't explicitly said).
In no way are you forced to try the GIMP's single window mode or to install Ubuntu in a virtual machine, if you are not interested in that: but, *if* this is interesting to you, you can do it quite easily, and it's even fun!
So, in essence, if no native Mac OS X GIMP development version is yet available, one looks at other ways to do things, for the time being!
Ah - much ado about nothing..
Filename extension | |
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Internet media type | image/x-xcf |
Developed by | GIMP |
Container for | Graphics |
Open format? | yes, but standard is ad hoc |
XCF, short for eXperimental Computing Facility,[1] is the native image format of the GIMP image-editing program. It saves all of the data the program handles related to the image, including, among others, each layer, the current selection, channels, transparency, paths and guides.
Prior to version 4 (GIMP 2.10.0, released on 2018-04-27), the saved image data are compressed only by a simple RLE algorithm, but GIMP supports compressed files, using gzip, bzip2, or xz. The compressed files can be opened as normal image files. Since version 4, the image data can be compressed by zlib instead.
The XCF file format is backward compatible (all versions of GIMP can open earlier versions' files) and in some cases, forward compatible. For example, GIMP 2.0 can save text in text layers while GIMP 1.2 cannot. Text layers saved in GIMP 2.0 will open as ordinary image layers in GIMP 1.2. However, XCF files containing layer groups, a feature introduced in GIMP 2.7, cannot be opened with GIMP 2.6.
Despite some use in other programs[2][3][4][5][6] (see §software support), the use of XCF as a data interchange format is not recommended by the developers of GIMP,[7]since the format reflects GIMP's internal data structures and there may be minor format changes in future versions. Instead, a collaborative effort between the developers of GIMP and Krita is underway to design a standardised raster file format called OpenRaster (modelled on the OpenDocument format) for future use in both applications, and likely in others also.
GIMP's Save dialog saves in the XCF format: starting with version 2.8, other formats with import/export support were moved to an Export dialog.
Software support[edit]
A partial list of image viewers and conversion software.
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application | XCF-capable? | notes |
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GIMP | default format | program for which the format was developed |
Glimpse | default format | fork of the GIMP to improve the UI and select a less-offensive name |
Seashore | default format[2] | lightweight native Mac OS Ximage editing program based on the GIMP |
CinePaint | default format, but nonstandard | fork of GIMP with support for 16-bit and 32-bit floating point channels, and 16-bit integer channels; the XCF file format used in CinePaint has diverged from the GIMP's native format, so XCF files created in GIMP cannot be opened in CinePaint, and vice versa |
DBGallery | does not support colour indexing | displays multi-layer non-indexed images and allows indexing, searching and other photo database operation |
ImageMagick | does not support colour indexing or multiple layers | has an XCF reader module that can read single-layer non-indexed images |
Project Dogwaffle | see ImageMagick row | (including PD Pro, PD Particles and PD Artist) imports XCF files using the ImageMagick library |
Krita | import only | imports XCF files using the GraphicsMagick library |
Kolourpaint | Yes | can read XCF files using KDE's image I/O library plugin, like any other KDE program |
Gwenview | does not support colour indexing | can display multi-layer non-indexed images |
Digikam | does not support colour indexing | can display multi-layer non-indexed images |
Imagine | does not support colour indexing or multiple layers | can display single-layer non-indexed images |
XnView | does not support colour indexing or multiple layers | can display single-layer non-indexed images |
Inkscape | export only[3] | added support for XCF export in the 0.44 release |
IrfanView | requires plugin[4] | can display multi-layer images (composite image and individual layers) with a plugin |
Paint.NET | requires plugin | can load and save multi-layer .xcf/.xcfgz/.xcfbz2 images (via ImXCF.FileType plugin) |
Chasys Draw IES | Yes | can load and save multi-layer .xcf/.xcfgz/.xcfbz2 images (from version 3.71.02) |
MediaWiki and thus Wikimedia Commons | does not support colour indexing or later versions[5] | supports XCF files that are compatible with GIMP 2.6 or 2.8, and when the color mode is RGB or grayscale |
Corel Photo-Paint | does not support layer mask or paths | can load multi-layer images, support some layer modes |
Photopea | Yes | online image editor which can open XCF files and convert to other formats including Photoshop's PSD |
SDL2_image | Yes[6] | development library |
References[edit]
- ^'Partial Specification of the XCF File Format'. 2006-07-11. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
The name XCF honors GIMP's origin at the eXperimental Computing Facility of the University of California at Berkeley.
- ^ ab'About'. Seashore. Retrieved 2015-01-03.
- ^ ab'Inkscape 0.44 Release Notes'.
The new XCF output extension exports all top-level elements (i.e. layers and objects directly under root) as PNGs and assembles them into an XCF for processing in GIMP.
- ^ ab'IrfanView formats'. Irfanview.com. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
- ^ ab'Commons:File types - Wikimedia Commons'. commons.wikimedia.org. Wikimedia Commons. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
- ^ ab'Source code for SDL's XCF Loader'. hg.libsdl.org. Retrieved 2018-06-09.
- ^Neumann, Sven (2001-12-16). 'Re: XCF support added to ImageMagick'. gimp-developer (Mailing list).
External links[edit]
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