08-21-2018, 12:02 AM
GIMP 2.10.6 Released
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/gimp-2-10-6-released.png" width="19" height="19" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>In just 4 months since GIMP 2.10 was released, we have now seen 4 major patches (yeah, the versioning could use some work… <img class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-winkingsmile" alt="Winking smile" src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/gimp-2-10-6-released.png" />) that have brought rapid improvement to the open source raster art package. The 2.10.6 release brings several new features including vertical text layers, two new filters, improved straightening and more.</p>
<p>Details from the <a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/blob/3bbebaf6e06229ac893c1d4a34295a156ab28a06/NEWS#L11">news file</a>:</p>
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<pre>Core: - Render drawable previews asynchronously. - Merge the file view filter and file format lists in GimpFileDialog. The presence of 2 lists was very confusing. Filters: - New "Little Planet" (gegl:stereographic-projection) filter. Tools: - Halt the Measure tool after straightening. - Add an "orientation" option to the measure tool, corresponding to the "orientation" property of GimpToolCompass (i.e., it controls the orientation against which the angle is measured, when not in 3- point mode.) The orientation is "auto" by default, so that the angle is always <= 45 deg. Note that the "orientation" option affects the tool's "straighten" function, so that the layer is rotated toward the current orientation. - Text layers can now represent vertical texts, with 4 variants: left-to-right and right-to-left lines, and forcing all characters to be upright or following Unicode's vertical orientation property. See also: * https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr50/ * http://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest...tation.txt User Interface: - The Dashboard dockable dialog now has an "async" field to the dashboard's "misc" group, showing the number of async operations currently in the "running" state. - New Preferences option to enable/disable layer-group previews, since these can get quite time-expensive. Translations: - New language: Marathi - 9 translations were updated: Brazilian Portuguese, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish.</pre>
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<pre><span>You can learn a great deal more about this release in the release notes <a href="https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/08/19/gimp-2-10-6-released/">available here</a>.</span></pre>
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<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/gimp-2-10-6-released.png" width="19" height="19" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>In just 4 months since GIMP 2.10 was released, we have now seen 4 major patches (yeah, the versioning could use some work… <img class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-winkingsmile" alt="Winking smile" src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/gimp-2-10-6-released.png" />) that have brought rapid improvement to the open source raster art package. The 2.10.6 release brings several new features including vertical text layers, two new filters, improved straightening and more.</p>
<p>Details from the <a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/blob/3bbebaf6e06229ac893c1d4a34295a156ab28a06/NEWS#L11">news file</a>:</p>
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<pre>Core: - Render drawable previews asynchronously. - Merge the file view filter and file format lists in GimpFileDialog. The presence of 2 lists was very confusing. Filters: - New "Little Planet" (gegl:stereographic-projection) filter. Tools: - Halt the Measure tool after straightening. - Add an "orientation" option to the measure tool, corresponding to the "orientation" property of GimpToolCompass (i.e., it controls the orientation against which the angle is measured, when not in 3- point mode.) The orientation is "auto" by default, so that the angle is always <= 45 deg. Note that the "orientation" option affects the tool's "straighten" function, so that the layer is rotated toward the current orientation. - Text layers can now represent vertical texts, with 4 variants: left-to-right and right-to-left lines, and forcing all characters to be upright or following Unicode's vertical orientation property. See also: * https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr50/ * http://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest...tation.txt User Interface: - The Dashboard dockable dialog now has an "async" field to the dashboard's "misc" group, showing the number of async operations currently in the "running" state. - New Preferences option to enable/disable layer-group previews, since these can get quite time-expensive. Translations: - New language: Marathi - 9 translations were updated: Brazilian Portuguese, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish.</pre>
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<pre><span>You can learn a great deal more about this release in the release notes <a href="https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/08/19/gimp-2-10-6-released/">available here</a>.</span></pre>
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