On Tuesday 07 Jan 2003 8:07 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Tuesday 07 January 2003 16:38, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Whilst installing something else, I saw what I thought was a Gimp plugin, > > and installed it. The menu says that it is Gimp 1.3.8. It looks like a > > later version of Gimp, but seems incomplete. Certainly it doesn't see my > > scanner, and few .jpgs preview (I think the ones that do have been open > > in the old Gimp first, which presumably created the preview). Opening a > > .jpg that hasn't previewed seems to result in a chequer-board display. > > The documentation files are not present. > > > > What is this? Is it a demo of work in hand? It looks as though it will > > be good when it's complete, but it's pretty useless at the moment. Is > > this my install, or is it the program itself? > > > > Anne > > No, it's a bug in 1.3.8 if you take a look in the "layers pane" you can > actually see a minature of what should be displayed. I'ts there but it's > invisible. Native gimp files (xcf) load fine though:o) > > All 1.3.x versions are development versions and considered (very) unstable > and incomplete. > For stability stick to 1.2.x versions. Use that as the work-horse and 1.3 > for testing. Gimp 1.3.8 looks nice(r) though, =:o) > > Good gimping, > HarM
I thought it must be something like that. It certainly looks as though it will be nice when it gets there. Still, the workhorse will do for now, so I'll uninstall the new one. Thanks Anne
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