About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 50. Chapters: Linux bitmap graphics editors, Linux graph plotting software, Linux image viewers, Linux office suite software, Linux vector graphics editors, SVGAlib programs, GIMP, Links, GNOME Office, Dia, Oracle Open Office, Calligra Suite, Gnuplot, MPlayer, Gallery Project, Inkscape, IBM Lotus Symphony, Xara Xtreme, VisIt, Tux Paint, TVPaint, ROOT, XnView, Krita, SK1, GrafX2, Pinta, GIMPshop, AndreaMosaic, Grace, Pixel Studio Pro, Phatch, F-Spot, DigiKam, ThinkFree Office, SciDAVis, Xfig, CinePaint, OpenOffice.org Draw, Synfig, Gretl, Sodipodi, Batik, KPhotoAlbum, GTKWave, Eye of GNOME, DataScene, SoftMaker Office, Generic Mapping Tools, Shotwell, GQview, Alchemy, MayaVi, QtiPlot, Applixware, Ease, GPhoto, GThumb, GameSWF, Tgif, LabPlot, Xzgv, GraphCalc, HippoDraw, Xgraph, GimPhoto, Skencil, SciGraphica, Software Ideas Modeler, Macrofocus TreeMap, Karbon14, Jfig, Ploticus, KChart, Comix, EIOffice, OpenScientist, Kst, IDPS Software, Instrumented GIMP, ShowImg. Excerpt: GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux. In addition to detailed image retouching and free-form drawing, GIMP can accomplish essential image editing tasks such as resizing, editing, and cropping photos, photomontages combining multiple images, and converting between different image formats. GIMP can also be used to create basic animated images in the GIF format. GIMP's product vision is that GIMP is, or will become, a free software high-end graphics application for the editing and creation of original images, icons, graphical elements of web pages and art for user interface elements. GIMP 2.6 manipulating an imageGIMP orig...
